{"id":137986,"date":"2019-02-27T08:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=137986"},"modified":"2019-02-27T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:06:08","slug":"the-diplomatic-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/27\/the-diplomatic-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Diplomatic President"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just in case anyone is still wondering: this is STILL not normal. This is the US President, in Vietnam on a delicate diplomatic mission that could mean life or death for millions &#8230; and he&#39;s taking time out for petty public snipes at a political opponent. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1MgskQr3RE\">https:\/\/t.co\/1MgskQr3RE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1100783948739870720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just in case anyone is still wondering: this is STILL not normal. This is the US President, in Vietnam on a delicate diplomatic mission that could mean life or death for millions &#8230; and he&#8217;s taking time out for petty public snipes at a political opponent. https:\/\/t.co\/1MgskQr3RE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case anyone is still wondering: this is STILL not normal. This is the US President, in Vietnam on a delicate diplomatic mission that could mean life or death for millions &#8230; and he&#39;s taking time out for petty public snipes at a political opponent. https:\/\/t.co\/1MgskQr3RE &mdash; Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) February 27, 2019 Just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/27\/the-diplomatic-president.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Diplomatic President&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":"","_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":[78,10,358,1071],"tags":[723],"class_list":["post-137986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-nt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135301,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/diplomatic-ever-knowledgeable-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":137986,"position":0},"title":"The Diplomatic and Ever-So-Knowledgeable President","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Nov-17 10:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"You'd almost think Donald Trump hasn't read an article about Japanese car manufacture and US imports since, oh, 1976 or so. 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