{"id":9658,"date":"2015-06-08T14:13:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T14:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2015-06-08T14:13:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T14:13:39","slug":"the-donald-calls-this-man-a-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9658","title":{"rendered":"The Donald calls this man a &#8216;clown&#8217;?"},"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>Words fail me.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has called out one of the smartest commentators\/pundits on television, calling him a &#8220;clown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Charles Krauthammer was the target of The Donald&#8217;s vitriol. Why? Because the commentator had the bad taste to point out that Trump&#8217;s poll standing is in the toilet (although he didn&#8217;t use that term; it&#8217;s mine).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fYQSQTy90K\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/244123-trump-hits-back-at-dummy-fox-news-pundit\/\">Trump hits back at &#8216;dummy&#8217; Fox News pundit<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Trump hits back at &#8216;dummy&#8217; Fox News pundit&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/244123-trump-hits-back-at-dummy-fox-news-pundit\/embed\/#?secret=u8CGNADfpb#?secret=fYQSQTy90K\" data-secret=\"fYQSQTy90K\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trump called Krauthammer a &#8220;dummy&#8221; and maybe a few other unprintable words as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Donald is talking about running for the Republican presidential nomination next year. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s seriously considering such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Krauthammer is one of Fox News&#8217;s go-to guys on the political commentary desk. Do I agree with Krauthammer? Hardly ever. But, man, the guy&#8217;s smart.<\/p>\n<p>I should remind you here that Krauthammer once was a medical doctor. He worked as a psychiatrist. I don&#8217;t believe &#8220;clowns&#8221; and &#8220;dummies&#8221; get medical degrees from reputable universities, as Dr. Krauthammer did.<\/p>\n<p>The real clown here is Donald Trump, a self-absorbed egomaniac with absolutely no sense of self-awareness.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a smart businessman &#8212; I reckon. But business smarts do not translate to <em>political<\/em> smarts &#8212; which The Donald demonstrates every\u00a0time he opens his trap.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Words fail me. Donald Trump has called out one of the smartest commentators\/pundits on television, calling him a &#8220;clown.&#8221; Dr. Charles Krauthammer was the target of The Donald&#8217;s vitriol. Why? Because the commentator had the bad taste to point out that Trump&#8217;s poll standing is in the toilet (although he didn&#8217;t use that term; it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Donald calls this man a &#8216;clown&#8217;?<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[921,1424,1788,1958,3763],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-charles-krauthammer","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-gop-nomination","tag-psychiatry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","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=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}