{"id":86937,"date":"2024-02-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86937"},"modified":"2024-02-05T13:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T19:52:54","slug":"the-thing-about-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86937","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty open about it for going on four decades.  I don&#8217;t like Donald Trump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me be more clear; I don&#8217;t like people with the public persona people like Donald Trump cultivate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But personality and social media aside, Trump accomplished things.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My biggest problem with Trump?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His personality cult. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like this particular piece of&#8230;work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How about this. <br><br>Every donor who donated to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiHaley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NikkiHaley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RonDeSantis<\/a> can escape the wrath of MAGA so long as they donate DOUBLE what they gave to Nikki or Ron. <br><br>I think that\u2019s fair if we are to ever move on from this treachery by the donor class and candidates who took\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/1752862247502631180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PS:  Just so we&#8217;re clear:  everything you can say about personality cults can be said equally about anti-personality cults.  The more insipid (to say nothing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86915\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"86915\">deranged<\/a>) Never-Trumpers are just as bad.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty open about it for going on four decades. I don&#8217;t like Donald Trump. Let me be more clear; I don&#8217;t like people with the public persona people like Donald Trump cultivate. But personality and social media aside, Trump accomplished things. My biggest problem with Trump? His personality cult. Like this particular piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86959,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86937\/revisions\/86959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}