{"id":137075,"date":"2018-09-07T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/because-donald-misses-a-chance-to-be-petty.html"},"modified":"2018-09-09T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T16:48:18","slug":"because-donald-misses-a-chance-to-be-petty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/because-donald-misses-a-chance-to-be-petty.html","title":{"rendered":"Because Donald never misses a chance to be petty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the bright side, he sounds more like a snotty twelve-year-old than the usual fractious nine-year-old.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Donald Trump claims he fell asleep watching former President Barack Obama\u2019s speech about the current political climate. Trump says: \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I watched it, but I fell asleep.\u201d He adds, \u201cI found he\u2019s very good for sleeping.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whereas you&#8217;re great at keeping people awake at night, Donald &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/trump-claims-he-fell-asleep-watching-obama-speech\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/G_dsIYb5nYis0GVAZrIfU0Wp5s7oOmQVT54GvtfXD4i9WILSeA745EotRJHqScsVqRzgOg0DhfDLxNhWCAnV37RJ46GjiBzTUIPwKgO1rnnZawg=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/trump-claims-he-fell-asleep-watching-obama-speech\">Trump claims he fell asleep watching Obama speech<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nObama criticized Trump during a speech Friday in Illinois, calling the current president &#8220;the symptom, not the cause&#8221; of division and polarization in the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/6386XKYRWPY\">Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the bright side, he sounds more like a snotty twelve-year-old than the usual fractious nine-year-old. President Donald Trump claims he fell asleep watching former President Barack Obama\u2019s speech about the current political climate. Trump says: \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I watched it, but I fell asleep.\u201d He adds, \u201cI found he\u2019s very good for sleeping.\u201d Whereas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/because-donald-misses-a-chance-to-be-petty.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because Donald never misses a chance to be petty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136097,"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":[106,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-137075","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\/04\/Trump-and-Rick-Scott.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138536,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/04\/donald-trump-does-not-like-wind-turbines-nosirree.html","url_meta":{"origin":137075,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump does not like wind turbines. 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Let's see what you did manage to blurt out.\u25ba Since November 8th, Election Day, the Stock Market has posted $3.2\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\/2017\/03\/trump%2Btweet.PNGimgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trump%2Btweet.PNGimgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trump%2Btweet.PNGimgmax%3D660.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":133499,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/17\/the-special-snowflake-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":137075,"position":2},"title":"The Special Snowflake President","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-May-17 4:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Poor Donald Trump. 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