{"id":138073,"date":"2019-03-04T19:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T02:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138073"},"modified":"2019-03-04T19:01:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T02:01:12","slug":"the-rambling-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/the-rambling-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rambling President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0few excerpts from Donald&#8217;s\u00a0<em>two hour long<\/em> speech at CPAC over the weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We had &#8212; think of this: We had the greatest election &#8212; in all fairness, I used to hear Andrew Jackson. This was now greater than the election of Andrew Jackson. People say that. No, people say it. I&#8217;m not saying it. Right? This was the equivalent or greater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have one of the great inventions in history. It&#8217;s called TiVo. I think it&#8217;s actually better than television, because television is practically useless without TiVo, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And from the day we came down the escalator, I really don&#8217;t believe we&#8217;ve had an empty seat at any arena, at any stadium.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, somebody said, &#8216;Oh, the speech you made, sir, the State of the Union speech was incredible.&#8217; They said it was incredible. They said that was so great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never saw so many beautiful-looking machine guns. I&#8217;d look at that equipment and I&#8217;d say, &#8216;Man &#8230;&#8217; They sit in the trees. They sit on the lawn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know I&#8217;m totally off-script, right?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, one might say, &#8220;Gosh, Dave, anyone can sound a little odd when you pull sentences at random.&#8221; And there&#8217;s something to be said for that. Of course, I&#8217;m not sure in what context any or all of those (or the many others in the article) would sound particularly &#8230; sane. Or even presidential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-cpac-2019-flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-138074\" title=\"trump cpac 2019 flag\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-cpac-2019-flag-650x379.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-cpac-2019-flag-650x379.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-cpac-2019-flag-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-cpac-2019-flag-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-cpac-2019-flag-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-cpac-2019-flag.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/04\/politics\/donald-trump-cpac-speech\/index.html\">The article<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2019\/mar\/04\/fact-checking-donald-trump-two-hour-speech\/\">fact-checking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/factba.se\/transcript\/donald-trump-speech-cpac-convention-2019-march-2-2019\">The transcript<\/a>, in case you want to read (and hear) the whole thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0few excerpts from Donald&#8217;s\u00a0two hour long speech at CPAC over the weekend. &#8220;We had &#8212; think of this: We had the greatest election &#8212; in all fairness, I used to hear Andrew Jackson. This was now greater than the election of Andrew Jackson. People say that. No, people say it. I&#8217;m not saying it. Right? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/the-rambling-president.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Rambling President&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138074,"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":[1071],"tags":[1774,1077],"class_list":["post-138073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump","tag-cpac","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trump-cpac-2019-flag.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10256,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/lie_down_with_dogs_get_up.html","url_meta":{"origin":138073,"position":0},"title":"Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Mar-07 6:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Boy, you're out of town then down sick for a couple of days and you miss all sorts of things. 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