{"id":43604,"date":"2020-07-13T21:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T21:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43604"},"modified":"2020-07-13T21:44:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T21:44:46","slug":"trump-shows-his-ignorance-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43604","title":{"rendered":"Trump shows his ignorance yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23BetsyDeVos%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43577\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John &#8220;Ignoramus in Chief&#8221; Trump threatens to pull federal funds from public schools if they don&#8217;t reopen this fall, per his edict.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, he is not going to do that. He has no authority to do anything of the sort. Donald Trump once again is showing us what he doesn&#8217;t know about the job to which he was elected &#8230; and from which I hope he gets booted out in about 120 days.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News&#8217; Chris Wallace challenged an assertion delivered by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Sunday. DeVos repeated Trump&#8217;s threat, to which Wallace told her that Congress appropriates federal funds for public schools. Wallace asked \u201cUnder what authority are you and the president going to unilaterally cut off funding, funding that&#8217;s been approved from Congress and most of the money goes to disadvantaged students or students with disabilities?&#8221; \u201cYou can\u2019t do that,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>That means that Trump is out of the game.<\/p>\n<p>DeVos didn&#8217;t answer the question directly. She couldn&#8217;t answer. Because she is as ignorant about government as Donald Trump. She did say, &#8220;Look, American investment in education is a promise to students and their families. If schools aren&#8217;t going to reopen and not fulfill that promise, they shouldn&#8217;t get the funds, and give it to the families to decide to go to a school that is going to meet that promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Americans are getting sick from the COVID-19 pandemic in increasing numbers. That poses threats to students, teachers and their loved ones. Donald Trump&#8217;s demand that schools reopen this fall runs directly counter to the medical advice he is getting from the infectious disease experts with whom he has surrounded himself.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait! He knows more than they do. Isn&#8217;t that what he has inferred &#8230; <em>about anything?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23BetsyDeVos%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald John &#8220;Ignoramus in Chief&#8221; Trump threatens to pull federal funds from public schools if they don&#8217;t reopen this fall, per his edict. Sigh &#8230; No, he is not going to do that. He has no authority to do anything of the sort. Donald Trump once again is showing us what he doesn&#8217;t know about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump shows his ignorance yet again<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251,11,13],"tags":[6864,9236,9261,3780],"class_list":["post-43604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-medical-news","category-national-news","tag-betsy-devos","tag-coronavirus","tag-pandemic","tag-public-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43604","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=43604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43605,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43604\/revisions\/43605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}