{"id":134410,"date":"2017-08-23T22:32:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/yeah-about-those-divisions-mr-president.html"},"modified":"2017-08-23T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:37:06","slug":"yeah-about-those-divisions-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/yeah-about-those-divisions-mr-president.html","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, about those &#8220;divisions,&#8221; Mr. President &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies to Rachel Maddow for not being able to do a decent pause and screen photo here that doesn&#8217;t make her look like she&#8217;s had three two many martinis, but I was struck (multiple times) during her show tonight about the difference between &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230; Trump&#8217;s message in the crawl to the American Legion today about how it&#8217;s <i>&#8220;time to heal the wounds that divide us&#8221;<\/i> and that there is <i>&#8220;no division too deep for us to heal&#8221;<\/i> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230; even as the Wall Street Journal is breaking a story that the Trump White House will be issuing directives to the Pentagon in the next day or two on barring admission into the military for openly transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>You keep talking about healing divisions, Donald, even as you keep adding new ones.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6457694360872215313\/6457694360100561458?authkey=CP_IjfegiaGo6AE\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-2neTd5DrWWk\/WZ5WzmHWYjI\/AAAAAAAEfFA\/7zVlHmyKidI8tLt0xW42nFsudgMZ999XQCL0BGAs\/IMG_20170823_202411.jpg?imgmax=660\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170823_202225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-134413 size-large\" title=\"IMG_20170823_202225\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170823_202225-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170823_202225-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170823_202225-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170823_202225-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170823_202225-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6457694360872215313?authkey=CP_IjfegiaGo6AE\">In Album 8\/24\/17<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/aopHmFyxia1\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies to Rachel Maddow for not being able to do a decent pause and screen photo here that doesn&#8217;t make her look like she&#8217;s had three two many martinis, but I was struck (multiple times) during her show tonight about the difference between &#8230; &#8230; Trump&#8217;s message in the crawl to the American Legion today &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/yeah-about-those-divisions-mr-president.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yeah, about those &#8220;divisions,&#8221; Mr. President &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,25,349,358,740,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff","category-military","category-poor-citizenship","category-race-racism","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170823_202411.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134376,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/21\/donald-trump-and-the-never-ending-war-in-afghanistan.html","url_meta":{"origin":134410,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump and the Never-Ending War in Afghanistan","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Aug-17 9:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Key points from Trump's speech. 1. 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