{"id":105455,"date":"2016-09-04T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105455"},"modified":"2016-09-04T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:48:17","slug":"the-stupid-things-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105455","title":{"rendered":"The Stupid Things Trump Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/justnotsaid.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/trumps-latest-poorly-phrased-tweet.html\">JustNotSaid<\/a>: The problem is not the message, but the messenger. Trump is the most tone deaf, vain, thin-skinned, insulting, inarticulate candidate imaginable. Witness his Tweet after NBA player Dwyane Wade&#8217;s cousin was shot dead on the streets of Chicago recently:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just what I have been saying. African Americans will VOTE TRUMP!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s insensitive, ill-timed, and incoherent. If you take it literally, it means that Trump was predicting that Wade&#8217;s cousin would be killed &#8212; and that somehow because of the murder, blacks will vote for Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to vote for him, and I recommend you do the same. But in the remote chance he gets elected, expect to spend the next four years defending your choice from constant, well-deserved attacks against his personality.  (The best defense: hey, I never liked the guy personally, but his policies are better for America than another four years of Obama would have been.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JustNotSaid: The problem is not the message, but the messenger. Trump is the most tone deaf, vain, thin-skinned, insulting, inarticulate candidate imaginable. Witness his Tweet after NBA player Dwyane Wade&#8217;s cousin was shot dead on the streets of Chicago recently: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105455\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105456,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105455\/revisions\/105456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}