{"id":138815,"date":"2019-05-20T18:08:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T00:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138815"},"modified":"2019-05-20T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T00:08:22","slug":"the-ugly-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/the-ugly-american.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly American"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump is apparently insisting the Irish PM pay court to him at Trump&#39;s Irish golf course, or else he&#39;ll skip the visit. Rudeness, vanity, greed, arrogance, and presumption, all in one package. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iX6Vkw6sg4\">https:\/\/t.co\/iX6Vkw6sg4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1129963131508101120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump is apparently insisting the Irish PM pay court to him at Trump&#8217;s Irish golf course, or else he&#8217;ll skip the visit. Rudeness, vanity, greed, arrogance, and presumption, all in one package. https:\/\/t.co\/iX6Vkw6sg4<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump-Ireland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-138832\" title=\"Trump Ireland\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump-Ireland-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump-Ireland-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump-Ireland-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump-Ireland-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump-Ireland-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump-Ireland.jpg 780w\" 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\/05\/17\/politics\/us-ireland-trump-visit-venue-hotel-golf\/index.html\">Standoff over venue threatens to derail Trump visit to Ireland &#8211; CNNPolitics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/19\/politics\/irish-us-trump-visit\/index.html\">Irish FM disputes reports of disagreement over Trump visit &#8211; CNNPolitics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is apparently insisting the Irish PM pay court to him at Trump&#39;s Irish golf course, or else he&#39;ll skip the visit. Rudeness, vanity, greed, arrogance, and presumption, all in one package. https:\/\/t.co\/iX6Vkw6sg4 &mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) May 19, 2019 Trump is apparently insisting the Irish PM pay court to him at Trump&#8217;s Irish golf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/the-ugly-american.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ugly American&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138832,"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":[78,10,1071],"tags":[1852,723,1077],"class_list":["post-138815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-trump","tag-ireland","tag-nt","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump-Ireland.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135322,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/trump-celebrates-2016-election.html","url_meta":{"origin":138815,"position":0},"title":"Trump celebrates the 2016 Election (again)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Nov-17 1:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Quoth the President of the United States... \"Congratulations to all of the 'DEPLORABLES' and the millions of people who gave us a MASSIVE (304-227) Electoral College landslide victory!\" Rallying his supporters after yesterday's electoral losses? 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