{"id":59126,"date":"2025-11-23T00:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59126"},"modified":"2025-11-23T00:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:06:24","slug":"will-the-potus-stay-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59126","title":{"rendered":"Will the POTUS stay away?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">They&#8217;re going to play a big football game next weekend that well could focus as much on one of the spectators as on the student-athletes on the field.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Army will play Navy in the annual right of autumn. Custom tells us the president of the United States attends the game. He&#8217;s the commander in chief. That custom also says the POTUS will watch the from one side of the field, then switch to the other side for the second half.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The sold-out crowd usually cheers the president on his arrival. But wait! The POTUS this season happens to be Donald J. Trump. He&#8217;s becoming a highly unpopular politician &#8230; y&#8217;know?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>So, my question is whether Trump is going to force himself to listen to the hoots, jeers and boos from the sold-out crowd. Hey, this guy always seeks affirmation. He&#8217;s been known to reap it even when it isn&#8217;t apparent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>My hunch is that Trump ought to stay away. The Black Knights and the Midshipmen don&#8217;t need the distraction the commander in chief would create. Let the officers-to-be play their top-quality brand of tackle football.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Just stay away, Mr. POTUS.<\/p>\r\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>They&#8217;re going to play a big football game next weekend that well could focus as much on one of the spectators as on the student-athletes on the field. Army will play Navy in the annual right of autumn. Custom tells us the president of the United States attends the game. He&#8217;s the commander in chief. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will the POTUS stay away?<\/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":[17],"tags":[7461,1424],"class_list":["post-59126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-army-navy","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59126","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=59126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59128,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59126\/revisions\/59128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}