{"id":109832,"date":"2016-11-19T18:59:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T02:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109832"},"modified":"2016-11-19T19:04:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T03:04:46","slug":"when-trump-decided-to-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109832","title":{"rendered":"When Trump Decided To Run For President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/a-question-2\/\">Comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Seth Meyers is actually pretty funny. However, his Trump bit from around 1:40 t0 around 4:30 should rightly get him Gaddafi\u2019d by the new President. Here\u2019s hoping Trump is magnanimous\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Km4R377s4M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>*  I think most modern Republicans were (and still are) perfectly content with the GOP being the Outer Party where they would place their hopes in a Republican controlled Congress hoping for Congressional gridlock, even though Obama just about got everything he wanted anyway. Then when some Republican like Trump decides he\u2019s in it to win it, their martyr complexes shown through and secretly (and not so secretly) wanted Trump to fail so they can go back to their regularly scheduled pithy jabs and snide remarks about all of the rampant corruption of Hillary\u2019s cabinet and her new Warren 2.0 supreme court that decides that mean words said on the internet is not protected by the first amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments: * Seth Meyers is actually pretty funny. However, his Trump bit from around 1:40 t0 around 4:30 should rightly get him Gaddafi\u2019d by the new President. Here\u2019s hoping Trump is magnanimous\u2026 * I think most modern Republicans were (and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109832\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Comments: * Seth Meyers is actually pretty funny. 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