{"id":160315,"date":"2023-12-31T12:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160315"},"modified":"2023-12-31T12:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T19:23:03","slug":"111676558765444227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/31\/111676558765444227.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump just likes being mean to people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it difficult to believe that Trump has particular feelings, one way or the other, over care and treatment of transgender kids, except that it makes a convenient cudgel for him to rile up the troops.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDeWine has fallen to the Radical Left. No wonder he gets loudly booed in Ohio every time I introduce him at Rallies, but I won\u2019t be introducing him any more. I\u2019m finished with this \u2018stiff.\u2019 What was he thinking.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mean, DeWine is about as reliably Right as you can find. But after taking the time to look at what the Ohio lege&#8217;s gender-affirming health care ban would do, he took a principled stand and said, &#8220;No, this is going to hurt people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which just teed him up for Trump&#8217;s criticism because, hey, hurting people is what Donald is all about.<\/p>\n<p><a translate=\"no\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/lgbtq\/4382804-trump-hits-ohio-governor-over-veto-on-proposed-gender-affirming-health-care-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"invisible\">https:\/\/<\/span><span class=\"ellipsis\">thehill.com\/homenews\/lgbtq\/438<\/span><span class=\"invisible\">2804-trump-hits-ohio-governor-over-veto-on-proposed-gender-affirming-health-care-ban\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-dave1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/lgbtq\/4382804-trump-hits-ohio-governor-over-veto-on-proposed-gender-affirming-health-care-ban\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Trump hits Ohio governor over veto on proposed gender-affirming health care ban\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/trumpdonald_091523gn18_w.jpg?w=1280\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Trump hits Ohio governor over veto on proposed gender-affirming health care ban<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Former President Trump went after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) for vetoing a proposed ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors Saturday. \u201cDeWine has fallen to the Radical Left,\u201d Trum\u2026<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-url\">thehill.com\/homenews\/lgbtq\/4382804-trump-hits-ohio-governor-over-veto-on-proposed-gender-affirming-health-care-ban\/<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s rule: If you don&#8217;t have something nice to say about someone, say it even louder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"none","_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":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_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":[2313,2136,134,25,358,1071],"tags":[2315],"class_list":["post-160315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toot","category-elections-2024","category-health-care","category-gay-stuff","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-ohio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135980,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/24\/trump-drives-military-trans-ban.html","url_meta":{"origin":160315,"position":0},"title":"Trump drives through his military trans ban (again)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 24-Mar-18 8:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of course he is, regardless of evidence, or readiness, or military impact. 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