{"id":11624,"date":"2020-01-17T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11624"},"modified":"2020-01-17T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:25:37","slug":"quote-for-the-day-215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11624","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Trump by now was in one of his rages. He was so angry that he wasn\u2019t taking many breaths. All morning, he had been coarse and cavalier, but the next several things he bellowed went beyond that description. They stunned nearly everyone in the room, and some vowed that they would never repeat them. Indeed, they have not been reported until now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t go to war with you people,\u201d Trump told the assembled brass.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the room, the commander in chief barked, \u201cYou\u2019re a bunch of dopes and babies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a president known for verbiage he euphemistically called \u201clocker room talk,\u201d this was the gravest insult he could have delivered to these people, in this sacred space. The flag officers in the room were shocked.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/a-very-stable-genius-philip-rucker\/1134074683?ean=9781984877499#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Very Stable Genius<\/a><br \/>Excerpt published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/youre-a-bunch-of-dopes-and-babies-inside-trumps-stunning-tirade-against-generals\/2020\/01\/16\/d6dbb8a6-387e-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html?utm_campaign=post_most&#038;utm_medium=Email&#038;utm_source=Newsletter&#038;wpisrc=nl_most&#038;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a><br \/>Hits bookshelves January 21st<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the slightest difficulty believing this, and I hope it&#8217;s a sunny omen that the book will be published on the same day that the First Felon&#8217;s trial begins in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump by now was in one of his rages. He was so angry that he wasn\u2019t taking many breaths. All morning, he had been coarse and cavalier, but the next several things he bellowed went beyond that description. They stunned &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11627,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions\/11627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}