{"id":664,"date":"2017-02-09T04:46:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T04:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmythology.net\/mv\/?p=91"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:13:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:13:02","slug":"trumps-loose-social-media-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/reflections\/trumps-loose-social-media-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s loose social media habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div style=\"--tco-dcig-0:;--tco-dcig-1:;--tco-dcig-2:;--tco-dcig-3:;--tco-dcig-4:;--tco-dcig-5:;\" class=\"x-text x-content e664-e1-v0 mig-0 mig-1 x-content exp03-content\"><div class=\"x-col e383-e14 man-36\">\n<div class=\"x-the-content entry-content\">\n<p><span>After watching Donald Trump in the White House for a mere 20 days one is left with the <\/span><span>exhaustion that usually accompanies any adult who must \u201cwatch\u201d over a child, unmoored <\/span><span>to reality, wedded to his own narcissistic ego where only his wants matter. \u00a0One wants to <\/span><span>avoid being overly dramatic, but this is a man who fails to appreciate that the world is <\/span><span>reacting to his every word (tweet or otherwise). \u00a0His ego feels bolstered by that kind of <\/span><span>attention, but his loose social media habits put Americans around the world at risk. <\/span><span>As a retired Foreign Service officer, I had to defend policies with which I disagreed, but I <\/span><span>never had to fret over the competence of the White House occupant. \u00a0For today\u2019s <\/span><span>diplomats, real fear and trembling exists over a tweeting president, who in 140 characters <\/span><span>can unleash hostilities abroad to U.S. policies. This is not fantasy. Congress is planning <\/span><span>to hold hostage funds for security at diplomatic outposts (over moving the American <\/span><span>Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem), just at the time when those representing the U.S. are <\/span><span>most threatened by a man who campaigned on being \u201cunpredictable.\u201d The chaos <\/span><span>candidate is now the chaos president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I have faith that the country has survived bad presidents in the past, and will do so this <\/span><span>time. \u00a0But Trump shows no grasp of the breathtaking harm he may inflict on the country <\/span><span>by treating the constitution like something in his way as he ignores ethical conflicts and <\/span><span>bulldozes over norms that American society has adopted in ensuring that every American <\/span><span>is treated equally with respect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching Donald Trump in the White House for a mere 20 days one is left with the exhaustion that usually accompanies any adult who must \u201cwatch\u201d over a child, unmoored to reality, wedded to his own narcissistic ego where only his wants matter. \u00a0One wants to avoid being overly dramatic, but this is a man who fails to appreciate &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/reflections\/trumps-loose-social-media-habits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redesign.visualspring.net\/varga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}