{"id":42905,"date":"2020-05-27T02:29:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T02:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42905"},"modified":"2020-05-27T02:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T02:29:15","slug":"it-isnt-political-correctness-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42905","title":{"rendered":"It isn&#8217;t &#8216;political correctness,&#8217; Mr. POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BB14Dwdk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42906\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BB14Dwdk-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BB14Dwdk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BB14Dwdk-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BB14Dwdk.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A reporter stood before Donald Trump today to pose a question; he said he had to speak <em>loudly<\/em> because he was wearing a surgical mask.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re being politically correct,&#8221; Trump told the reporter, speaking in that dismissive tone he uses to discuss measures people are taking to avoid being sickened by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter answered that he was merely being cautious, that he doesn&#8217;t want to catch the killer virus.<\/p>\n<p>And so it goes on and on with the Dipsh** in Chief, who continues to dismiss the wearing of masks as a preventative measure by Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Trump won&#8217;t wear one in public. He says a mask makes him &#8220;look ridiculous.&#8221; He poked fun today at his likely election opponent, Democrat Joseph R. Biden, for wearing a mask during Memorial Day services in Delaware. Biden was asked by a CNN reporter whether wearing\u00a0 mask is a sign of &#8220;strength&#8221; or &#8220;weakness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden&#8217;s answer? It&#8217;s a sign of &#8220;leadership.&#8221; <em>Bingo!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has failed every leadership test he has ever taken since becoming a politician.<\/p>\n<p>Oh! There&#8217;s this: The disease that would in Donald Trump&#8217;s words disappear &#8220;miraculously&#8221; when we had recorded 15 cases is about to claim its <em>100,000th fatality.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter stood before Donald Trump today to pose a question; he said he had to speak loudly because he was wearing a surgical mask. &#8220;You&#8217;re being politically correct,&#8221; Trump told the reporter, speaking in that dismissive tone he uses to discuss measures people are taking to avoid being sickened by the coronavirus. The reporter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It isn&#8217;t &#8216;political correctness,&#8217; Mr. POTUS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9236,2505,9261,3640],"class_list":["post-42905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-joe-biden","tag-pandemic","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42907,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42905\/revisions\/42907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}