{"id":135800,"date":"2018-01-11T11:56:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135800"},"modified":"2018-01-11T22:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T05:48:35","slug":"happy-lie2k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/happy-lie2k.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Lie2K!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel presents a loving documentary of Donald Trump reaching the threshold of 2,000 public lies since taking office (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2018\/01\/10\/president-trump-has-made-more-than-2000-false-or-misleading-claims-over-355-days\/\">as tallied up by the WaPo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know what you&#8217;re saying: <i>&#8220;Only<\/i> 2,000 lies? It&#8217;s seemed like so much more &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, these things are sometimes hard to calculate with precision, but the number sounds about right. Or, as Trump himself ubiquitously says, &#8220;Believe me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qQruDaf7bKs\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/B2j2LdsUGVY\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel presents a loving documentary of Donald Trump reaching the threshold of 2,000 public lies since taking office (as tallied up by the WaPo). I know, I know what you&#8217;re saying: &#8220;Only 2,000 lies? It&#8217;s seemed like so much more &#8230;&#8221; Well, these things are sometimes hard to calculate with precision, but the number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/happy-lie2k.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Lie2K!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135726,"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":[106,358,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-135800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Trump-again.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136537,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/lies-damn-lies-and-quotations-by-donald-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":135800,"position":0},"title":"Lies, Damn Lies, and Quotations by Donald Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-May-18 7:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The headline caught my eye because of \"quotations\" and my passion about them.\u00a0Sadly enough, it's just another story of Trump misquoting people, then getting publicly outraged by what he's misquoted them as saying. 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