{"id":57954,"date":"2025-01-02T00:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T00:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57954"},"modified":"2025-01-02T00:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T00:14:40","slug":"trump-gets-a-bouquet-yes-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57954","title":{"rendered":"Trump gets a bouquet &#8230; yes, believe it!"},"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>Get ready for a shocker, ladies and gents, as I am about to offer a good word for the next president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump said this week he plans to attend the funeral of the late President Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n<p>OK, it&#8217;s not a huge deal. Trump should be there. He says he will go. What&#8217;s remarkable is that he said so quietly, in a statement. He made no big splash, no grand proclamation calling attention to himself.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to presume he&#8217;ll join the other men who have held the presidency: George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. The incumbent president, Joe Biden, will deliver the keynote eulogy honoring his predecessor, with whom he forged a remarkable friendship dating back to when Biden first entered the U.S. Senate in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>In what has to be the most moving element of the funeral will occur when the sons of two high-profile politicians deliver memorials on behalf of their fathers. Ted Mondale, son of former Vice President Walter Mondale, will read his late father&#8217;s eulogy he wrote years ago. Steve Ford, son of the late former President Gerald Ford, will do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Mondale and Gerald Ford expected Carter to precede them in death. He outlived them both, but they wrote the eulogies <em>in case<\/em> he did.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be fixated on Donald Trump&#8217;s presence among the attendees. I am, however, glad to see him take a moment to honor a good, decent and most honorable man as the nation and the world bid him a fond farewell.<\/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>Get ready for a shocker, ladies and gents, as I am about to offer a good word for the next president of the United States. Donald J. Trump said this week he plans to attend the funeral of the late President Jimmy Carter. OK, it&#8217;s not a huge deal. Trump should be there. He says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57954\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump gets a bouquet &#8230; yes, believe it!<\/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":[7932,13],"tags":[1424,2491],"class_list":["post-57954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-jimmy-carter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57954","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=57954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57955,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57954\/revisions\/57955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}