{"id":55714,"date":"2023-08-26T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55714"},"modified":"2023-08-26T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T00:02:09","slug":"trump-mug-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55714","title":{"rendered":"Trump mug &#8230; for the ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The critiques of Donald Trump&#8217;s mug shot taken at the Fulton County, Ga., sheriff&#8217;s office make me laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Some folks suggest he rehearsed the pose he would strike. Others say it reflects a frightened criminal defendant. Still more believe Trump&#8217;s puss will energize his base and that his support will grow among the American voting public.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to believe that Donald Trump&#8217;s support level has topped out. His base remains loyal, but only because it comprises the moronic MAGA dumbasses who have bought into the cult of personality he has cultivated.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about how he came up with the pose we all have seen. Nor do I really care. I do know that the mug shot played on virtually every newspaper&#8217;s front page (what&#8217;s left of them) around the world today. That&#8217;s likely to Trump&#8217;s desire, given his penchant for publicity. Trump seems to ascribe to the notion that &#8220;there is no such thing as bad publicity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The mug shot will stand for the ages as the defining moment in Donald Trump&#8217;s political career. It likely will remind him every single day of his miserable life about the horrendous day he endured, having to fly to Georgia, then wait in a dank jail building, get the picture taken, have his fingerprints recorded and then he returned to his New Jersey resort.<\/p>\n<p>He made history when he had the picture taken, being the first U.S. president or former POTUS to have been arrested and arraigned on a criminal indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Nice goin&#8217; &#8230; Donald.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The critiques of Donald Trump&#8217;s mug shot taken at the Fulton County, Ga., sheriff&#8217;s office make me laugh. Some folks suggest he rehearsed the pose he would strike. Others say it reflects a frightened criminal defendant. Still more believe Trump&#8217;s puss will energize his base and that his support will grow among the American voting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump mug &#8230; for the ages<\/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":[8688,8],"tags":[2267,2280,7419,10254],"class_list":["post-55714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","category-legal-news","tag-indictment","tag-insurrection","tag-maga","tag-trump-mug-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55714","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=55714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55716,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55714\/revisions\/55716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}