{"id":2452541,"date":"2019-12-23T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/trump-the-illusionist\/"},"modified":"2019-12-24T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:01:04","slug":"trump-the-illusionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/trump-the-illusionist\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump the illusionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Donald Trump thinks he\u2019s a miracle \u2014 he\u2019s just a mirage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A miracle? An \u201camazing event, marvelous example, act of God\u201d?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Donald Trump anointed himself a wonder, a phenomenon, a sensation and wrapped himself in the gold of kings to show competitors that he was above them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">His recent comments calling himself \u201cthe chosen one\u201d in The New York Times on Aug. 21 reveal his blatantly delusional self image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He put himself in judgment of others by demeaning and disparaging aspiring business entrepreneurs on the \u201cApprentice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The people who are fascinated by his arrogant display, drawn to the bawdy performances, have bought into his projections of success and superlatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When making his entrance onto the stage of presidential hopefuls who wished to represent and lead this country, he led with a stomp in the face to other human beings with derisive, belittling commentary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For these reasons, a large and growing number of voters has a deep aversion to him, his administration and their positions. Instead of inspiring and carrying the nation to a higher place, he drags us down to an uglier and increasingly hostile and dangerous place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He is a mirage, created from the heat within this country. He\u2019s a distortion, a misreading of the land. He is leading the country into the desert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s time to recover what\u2019s he stripped from this country, stop the carnage that he has wrought, drain the swamp that he\u2019s created.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Charmaine Locke<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/trump-the-illusionist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump thinks he\u2019s a miracle \u2014 he\u2019s just a mirage. A miracle? An \u201camazing event, marvelous example, act of God\u201d? Donald Trump anointed himself a wonder, a phenomenon, a sensation and wrapped himself in the gold of kings to show competitors that he was above them. His recent comments calling himself \u201cthe chosen one\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 00:52:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452558,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452541\/revisions\/2452558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}