{"id":135318,"date":"2017-11-08T07:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135318"},"modified":"2017-11-09T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:45:09","slug":"donald-trump-no-sense-loyalty-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/donald-trump-no-sense-loyalty-commitment.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has no sense of loyalty or commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again and again and again we see it. Trump is, from a relationship standpoint, a &#8220;user.&#8221; If you claim to espouse his message, if you heap glory upon his head and make his rhetorical priorities yours, if <i>you<\/i> show loyalty to <i>him<\/i> &#8230; then as long as it benefits him he&#8217;ll root for you, stand by your side, bad-mouth your opponent, tweet his little fingers off on your behalf.<\/p>\n<p>And if you lose? You&#8217;re last week&#8217;s garbage. Didn&#8217;t try hard enough. Didn&#8217;t follow the message. Didn&#8217;t <i>really<\/i> have loyalty to Trump, otherwise you would have won, so it&#8217;s okay for Trump to cut you off at the knees and blame the defeat on you, even as he would have claimed the victory for himself.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as he posted on Twitter as the GOP candidate for Governor in Virginia went down to an unexpected wide margin of defeat:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don\u2019t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/928074747316928513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;successful business man,&#8221; a &#8220;leader,&#8221; builds and maintains relationships. Such a person shows loyalty and support. Such a person takes responsibility. Such a person inspires others to follow their vision. Such a person stands on the battle line and rallies the troops, even at risk to himself.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is out to glorify Trump. And the question is, how long will GOP politicians &#8212; or, heck, GOP voters &#8212; let him get away with it. Because it sure looks like the Democratic voters yesterday didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/politics\/wp\/2017\/11\/07\/trump-just-made-a-bad-night-for-republicans-much-worse-for-himself\/?utm_term=.bde4820cab1f\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/KA2bvz3UE-0v0DvfPFHlOFtgn68C9s12hXFcILrAjZfn-4Xr0BTbiRKU2q9YF6_2WOED2fJ9cySikzTMd-EMGuotFSndfxgHIvQu-V7dCEuRfxg9-biM6X5OCW9suUZK1LcYxW22JnR5JeOavOxdmEvZVarlhCazEVMQPSnJYk9A8KU3DokMGRSrJ_wm4rQEtuBK7EowZsP4C91MDWURjfVBlZwE7kJ9qxLLWM0=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/politics\/wp\/2017\/11\/07\/trump-just-made-a-bad-night-for-republicans-much-worse-for-himself\/?utm_term=.bde4820cab1f\">washingtonpost<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Jb7v6pZFxis\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again and again and again we see it. Trump is, from a relationship standpoint, a &#8220;user.&#8221; If you claim to espouse his message, if you heap glory upon his head and make his rhetorical priorities yours, if you show loyalty to him &#8230; then as long as it benefits him he&#8217;ll root for you, stand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/donald-trump-no-sense-loyalty-commitment.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Donald Trump has no sense of loyalty or commitment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,9,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-135318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135922,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/26\/keep-friends-close-trump-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":135318,"position":0},"title":"Keep Your Friends Close (Trump Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Feb-18 7:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"In personal businesses (leaving aside crime mobs), personal relationship is everything. People you know are the people you know, and the only ones from whom you can expect loyalty from. Outside experts are, by definition, outsiders, and cannot be trusted because they are not, first and foremost, people in your\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/unnamed-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":134006,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/31\/nope-no-chaos-here-nothing-to-see-move-along.html","url_meta":{"origin":135318,"position":1},"title":"Nope, no chaos here, nothing to see, move along","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 31-Jul-17 12:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump always wanted Anthony \"Mooch\" Scaramucci to be in his White House staff. 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I lose track of what sort of zaniness comes out of Hannity's mouth. ) Of course the fact that all the key players are Republican is doesn't disproves this, as the loudest Trumpists (including our Trump-in-Chief) don't consider anyone a Republican who isn't utterly and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/republican-gop-logo.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":135244,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/31\/unbearable-lightness-trumps-praise.html","url_meta":{"origin":135318,"position":4},"title":"The Unbearable Lightness of Trump&#8217;s Praise","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 31-Oct-17 9:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If there is one lesson that every single person in and around Washington, especially those in Trump's orbit, should be more than painfully aware of, is that Donald Trump has no sense of personal loyalty. 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Comey declines to draw the conclusion that the President was trying to obstruct justice, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135325,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135318\/revisions\/135325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}