{"id":139123,"date":"2019-06-08T13:58:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T19:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=139123"},"modified":"2019-06-08T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T19:58:01","slug":"the-cheese-stands-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/08\/the-cheese-stands-alone.html","title":{"rendered":"The Cheese Stands Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a joint D-Day proclamation by the world leaders who were present at the 75th anniversary commemoration of the event.<\/p>\n

And, yes, that’s Donald’s signature, way at the top.<\/p>\n

Who signs a document, all by itself, at the very top, when everyone else is signing it, together, at the bottom the way one does? Why would he\u00a0do<\/em> that?<\/p>\n

I can think of only three reasons.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. He was the last to sign and there was no room left at the bottom. This seems unlikely. I cannot imagine Trump allowing<\/em> himself to be the last to sign the document after all those other people. He’d elbow his way to the front. He’d pitch a fit because, as the President of the United States, reasons, reasons, reasons.
    \nBut even if he\u00a0was<\/em> the last to sign … there was plenty of room in the margins, as at least two other signatories demonstrated.<\/li>\n
  2. As President of the United States, he decided his name needed to be in top. Preferably in lights. I’m surprised he didn’t ask for another, brighter color pen, plus a highlighter to draw a circle around his Most Important Signature.<\/li>\n
  3. People who are suffering from cognitive problems sometimes have problems figuring out where they are supposed to sign something. Especially when there’s not a big line with an X in front of it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, I also don’t believe that Donald agrees with half the sentiments in that proclamation, assuming he even read it.\u00a0“Democracy, tolerance, and the rule of law”? “Shared values”? “Work together as allies and friends”? “Work constructively as friends and allies to find common ground where we have differences of opinion”? “Work together to resolve international tensions peacefully”? Does any<\/em> of that sound like Donald Trump or what passes for his foreign international economic policy?<\/p>\n

    I suppose we’re lucky he decided to sign it at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Maybe Donald thought he was putting his name on a school paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139124,"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":[10,1071],"tags":[1866,1077],"class_list":["post-139123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-trump","tag-dday","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-dday-resolution-signature.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133055,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/15\/muslim-ish-ban-2-0-is-not-surprisingly-on-hold.html","url_meta":{"origin":139123,"position":0},"title":"Muslim-ish Ban 2.0 is, not surprisingly, on hold","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Mar-17 10:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Two noteworthy items on the Hawaiian federal judge's stay on the second try by Trump to keep Muslims people from various countries that just happen to be Muslim-majority nations.The Transparent PresidentThe greatest enemy to Trump in this area have been the very words of himself and his team. 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Nonetheless, there's a certain bittersweet glee in seeing a major group of Trump voters ticked off because Trump's doing something against their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135051,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/trump-sure-hed-win-iq-test-tillerson.html","url_meta":{"origin":139123,"position":5},"title":"Trump is sure he’d win an IQ test against Tillerson","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Oct-17 8:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, I'd pay money to watch that one. On the other and, how smart can Tillerson actually be? He agreed to be (and has remained) Secretary of State for someone who has nothing but contempt for the State Dept. 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