{"id":9806,"date":"2015-06-17T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9806"},"modified":"2015-06-17T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T17:33:15","slug":"trump-grand-marshal-of-the-clown-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9806","title":{"rendered":"Trump: grand marshal of the clown parade"},"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>Donald Trump decided during his 45-minute presidential campaign announcement speech to trash as many groups of people and individuals as he could.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, Donald.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/06\/donald-trump-mexicans-comment-119100.html?hp=rc4_4<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit that I didn&#8217;t have the stomach to sit through the entire speech, but my favorite part occurred when he dissed Mexicans.<\/p>\n<p>Immigrants are coming into the country to rape, murder and steal from Americans. He said that &#8220;I&#8217;m sure good people&#8221; are coming as well, adding the &#8220;good people&#8221; reference almost as an afterthought.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks conservative columnist\/TV pundit Charles Krauthammer is &#8220;overrated.&#8221; He trashed all his Republican rivals as being half-hearted and afraid to speak the truth.<\/p>\n<p>As this campaign unfolds, though, I&#8217;m waiting anxiously for the Birther in Chief &#8212; Trump &#8212; to raise the issue of Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s legitimacy as a candidate, just as continues to do with the current president, Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz was born in Canada; his father is Cuban, his mother is American. Thus, he&#8217;s an American citizen by birth &#8212; just like President Obama, except that the president was born in one of the 50 United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Will The Donald suggest that Ted Cruz is not qualified to run for, let alone <em>serve<\/em> as president?<\/p>\n<p>Gosh, I hope he does &#8212; and then reveals why he deserves to be in the lead car in the Parade of Clowns.<\/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>Donald Trump decided during his 45-minute presidential campaign announcement speech to trash as many groups of people and individuals as he could. Well done, Donald. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/06\/donald-trump-mexicans-comment-119100.html?hp=rc4_4 I&#8217;ll admit that I didn&#8217;t have the stomach to sit through the entire speech, but my favorite part occurred when he dissed Mexicans. Immigrants are coming into the country &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump: grand marshal of the clown parade<\/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":[540,652,921,1424,1944,2245,3011,4537],"class_list":["post-9806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-birther","tag-charles-krauthammer","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-campaign","tag-immigration","tag-mexico","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806","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=9806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}