{"id":7676,"date":"2015-08-21T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T18:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=7676"},"modified":"2015-08-21T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T18:39:51","slug":"nailed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/21\/nailed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Nailed It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <em>never<\/em> liked Donald Trump. From the moment this guy hit my radar back in the 1980s, I thought he was a loudmouthed jerk who single-handedly refuted the &#8220;greed is good&#8221; motto of the day. I hate his tacky gold-colored skyscrapers and his self-aggrandizing habit of putting his own name on everything he owns in fifty-foot-high letters. I hate his stupid television game show. And I hate his swaggering, mean-spirited, condescending dismissal-by-schoolyard-insult of anyone who isn&#8217;t either (a) Donald Trump, or (b) a butt-licking sycophant who sings the praises of Donald Trump. The fact that his presidential run is polling so well among a certain demographic is both mystifying to me and also, frankly, kind of terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>Those poll numbers lend the following &#8212; supposedly an actual dictionary entry &#8212; something of sour-grapes flavor, but it&#8217;s too on-target not to pass along anyhow:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image image-_original\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/files\/blog_trumpery.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actually, this seemed a lot funnier when I first spotted it over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2015\/08\/word-day-trumpery\">Kevin Drum&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never liked Donald Trump. From the moment this guy hit my radar back in the 1980s, I thought he was a loudmouthed jerk who single-handedly refuted the &#8220;greed is good&#8221; motto of the day. I hate his tacky gold-colored skyscrapers and his self-aggrandizing habit of putting his own name on everything he owns in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}