{"id":136022,"date":"2018-03-30T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136022"},"modified":"2018-03-31T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T17:37:15","slug":"reality-free-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/reality-free-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Reality-Free President"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep coming back to two questions on Trump:<\/p>\n

1. Does he just lie to make himself look good with the assumption that his followers will believe him (or forgive him) and who gives a damn about anyone else?<\/p>\n

Or does he really believe what he says is true (be it through delusion or willful ignorance)?<\/p>\n

2. Which is the more dangerous situation?<\/p>\n


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\nMinute by minute at Donald Trump\u2019s rambling Ohio \u2018infrastructure\u2019 speech | Toronto Star<\/a><\/span>
\nAmong other things, the president of the United States boasted about the ratings for \u201cRoseanne,\u201d explained he doesn\u2019t know what a community college is and threatened South Korea over upcoming nuclear talks with North Korea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep coming back to two questions on Trump: 1. Does he just lie to make himself look good with the assumption that his followers will believe him (or forgive him) and who gives a damn about anyone else? Or does he really believe what he says is true (be it through delusion or willful … Continue reading “The Reality-Free President”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136023,"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":[106,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-136022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trump-in-ohio.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136915,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/house-gop-are-worried-about-a-government-shutdown-before-the-election.html","url_meta":{"origin":136022,"position":0},"title":"House GOP are worried about a government shutdown … but only BEFORE the election","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Sep-18 4:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That seems to be the bottom-line sentiment. 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