{"id":11577,"date":"2019-01-13T20:08:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T00:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11577"},"modified":"2019-01-13T20:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T00:08:29","slug":"trump-and-the-theater-of-the-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/trump-and-the-theater-of-the-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the Theater of the Absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Melonic-1024x576-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Melonic-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Melonic-1024x576-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Melonic-1024x576-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <br><strong><em>Photo Credit:<\/em><\/strong><em> Getty Images<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> <strong>AMERICAN GREATNESS<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/author\/emina-melonic\/\">Emina Melonic<\/a>| January 12th, 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><em>It is often said that appearances can be deceiving. This is nowhere  more true than in politics. Many critics of Donald Trump are intent on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/donald-trump-character-issue\/\"><em>criticizing<\/em><\/a><em>  the style of his presidency rather than taking on the substance or the  content. We all know the litany: Trump is an oaf, he talks dirty, he  fights dirty, he hates women, he tweets too much.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It\u2019s completely obvious why the anti-American Left hates  Trump. He and his political decisions represent everything that the Left  is against: national sovereignty, a strong economy, and individualism,  to name a few. Without a doubt, \u201cTrump Derangement Syndrome\u201d is real and  it\u2019s pernicious.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What is curious\u2014and bizarre\u2014is not so much that the Left suffers greatly  from this disorder but that many self-styled conservative intellectuals  seem to have caught the contagion, too. They aren\u2019t called <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/12\/27\/trump-works-while-nevertrump-predicts-doom-again\/\"><em>NeverTrumpers<\/em><\/a><em>  for nothing. According to them, everything Trump does is wrong. Even if  they agree with Trump on some issues, inevitably they will find some  flaw in his presentation. They hate the fact that such a clear and  American thought can come from such a man. In the words of Mollie  Hemingway, they are united in their belief that \u201cOrange Man Bad.\u201d That  is their mantra. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View the complete article including links at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/01\/12\/trump-and-the-theater-of-the-absurd\/\">https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/01\/12\/trump-and-the-theater-of-the-absurd\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMERICAN GREATNESS, by Emina Melonic| January 12th, 2019 Excerpt: It is often said that appearances can be deceiving. This is nowhere more true than in politics. Many critics of Donald Trump are intent on criticizing the style of his presidency &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/trump-and-the-theater-of-the-absurd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11579,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions\/11579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}