{"id":44069,"date":"2020-08-20T01:04:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44069"},"modified":"2020-08-20T01:04:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T01:04:59","slug":"no-maga-hats-at-goodyear-prompts-trump-outrage-good-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44069","title":{"rendered":"No MAGA hats at Goodyear prompts Trump outrage? Good grief!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Goodyearboycott%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/maga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39320\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/maga-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/maga-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/maga-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/maga-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/maga.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump has spun into a dizzying maelstrom of political madness.<\/p>\n<p>Goodyear Tire &amp; Rubber Co. has declared that employees cannot wear MAGA hats while they&#8217;re at work. Yep, MAGA stands for &#8220;Make America Great Again,&#8221; which was Trump&#8217;s signature campaign theme in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s response? It was to call for a boycott of Goodyear tires. He did so via Twitter, declaring that there are &#8220;better&#8221; tires to put on our vehicles than Goodyear.<\/p>\n<p>Except for this little bit of context. Goodyear&#8217;s MAGA hat ban is in keeping with its corporate policy banning partisan wardrobe statements that go above and beyond those that call for justice and racial understanding.<\/p>\n<p>So, that means Trump&#8217;s boycott call is yet another hysterical overreaction to a non-story, a non-event, a non-controversial private company policy statement &#8212; <em>which echoes policies enacted throughout corporate America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016 while proclaiming that he is a non-politician, that he is a self-made business mogul who &#8220;tells it like it is.&#8221; He has managed, though, to politicize damn near everything around him, such as the wildly errant Twitter rant against Goodyear.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the self-made crap? <em>That was yet another lie!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He is out of control and, dare I say so yet again, totally <em>unfit<\/em> for the job he wants to keep.<\/p>\n<p>Get him outta there!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Goodyearboycott%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump has spun into a dizzying maelstrom of political madness. Goodyear Tire &amp; Rubber Co. has declared that employees cannot wear MAGA hats while they&#8217;re at work. Yep, MAGA stands for &#8220;Make America Great Again,&#8221; which was Trump&#8217;s signature campaign theme in 2016. Trump&#8217;s response? It was to call for a boycott of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44069\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No MAGA hats at Goodyear prompts Trump outrage? Good grief!<\/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":[1424,7419,9489],"class_list":["post-44069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-maga","tag-political-boycott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44069","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=44069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44070,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44069\/revisions\/44070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}