{"id":8765,"date":"2018-08-27T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2018-08-27T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:47:45","slug":"the-smallest-man-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8765","title":{"rendered":"The smallest man in the room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flag back at full staff atop WH. Pres Trump did not issue proclamation on the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJohnMcCain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenJohnMcCain<\/a>, which usually calls for flags to remain at half-staff through the day of interment, which is Sunday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NavalAcademy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NavalAcademy<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NGasNPT0VB\">pic.twitter.com\/NGasNPT0VB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Knoller (@markknoller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markknoller\/status\/1034029373710643201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You can always count on Donald Trump to do something trashy, and he never disappoints.  We learn today that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/26\/politics\/wapo-trump-mccain-tweet\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">spiked<\/a> a White House statement acknowledging John McCain as a hero, and the White House flag is at full-staff not even 48-hours after McCain&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>You know Trump is seething.  He can&#8217;t turn on the television without hearing accolades to McCain, and he is banned from this weekend&#8217;s funeral services for McCain.  Ex-presidents will be there and two will deliver eulogies, and diplomats, and dignataries from throughout the world.  But not Donald.  No.  Donald has been told he isn&#8217;t welcome.  He sits in the Oval Office, and he still &#8230; doesn&#8217;t belong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flag back at full staff atop WH. Pres Trump did not issue proclamation on the death of @SenJohnMcCain, which usually calls for flags to remain at half-staff through the day of interment, which is Sunday at the @NavalAcademy. pic.twitter.com\/NGasNPT0VB &mdash; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8765\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765"}],"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=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8767,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions\/8767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}