{"id":2084,"date":"2017-03-02T10:19:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T01:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:23","slug":"the-president-apprentice-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-president-apprentice-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"The President Apprentice Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the address to Congress and the Opposition Media\u00a0 last night and felt fairly satisfied that the guy I had been backing had grit and was capable of delivering the goods when necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Either Trump has a gift for being underestimated\u00a0 over and over again or the American Elites in Politics and Media are a spent force in common sense perception. It is almost\u00a0 as if they have been inbred to the point of stupidity , like pet shop\u00a0 puppies. Crazy and stupid but looking proper for show.\u00a0 The Elites underestimating Trump is becoming like a Roadrunner \/Coyote cartoon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2085 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coyoteth.jpg\" alt=\"coyoteth\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coyoteth.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coyoteth-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coyoteth-188x150.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s speech was good, and he is getting better at delivery. In the hands of a Reagan\u00a0 it would have been poetry that made crowds visibly weep, but he was a more experienced actor. Trump beats Reagan at empathy. Many people feel he is approachable and one of them. Reagan was good at empathy, but he was also always Hollywood Royalty, just a bit special and more than normal.<\/p>\n<p>I am beginning to think Trump reminds me more of Eisenhower than any other President. Neither were lawyers, or politicians, but both knew many and accomplished tangible things outside the DC Bubble. Neither needed the job, Eisenhower was the victor of WW2, Trump was a billionaire. Both could have rested on their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Both men understood big decisions and the need for staff to handle all but the biggest decisions. Jimmy Carter actually managed the time on the White House tennis courts. W was continuing the family business, HW was adding yet one more slot to the resume.\u00a0 Bill Clinton, well we know what drives him, policy and something else with a &#8220;P&#8221;.\u00a0 Obama viewed it from the lens of the ultimate Progressive street organizer.<\/p>\n<p>Eisenhower managed the Cold War to not lose and avoid WW3. Reagan wanted to win the Cold War and avoid WW3.\u00a0 Trump seems closer to Eisenhower than Reagan in his outlook.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the show is one of the more exciting I have seen and we are still in the opening\u00a0 credits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2084\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2084\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the address to Congress and the Opposition Media\u00a0 last night and felt fairly satisfied that the guy I had been backing had grit and was capable of delivering the goods when necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Either Trump has a gift for being underestimated\u00a0 over and over again or the American Elites in Politics and Media are a spent force in common sense perception. It is almost\u00a0 as if they have been inbred to the point of stupidity , like pet shop\u00a0 puppies. Crazy and stupid but looking proper for show.\u00a0 The Elites underestimating Trump is becoming like a Roadrunner \/Coyote cartoon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2085 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coyoteth.jpg\" alt=\"coyoteth\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coyoteth.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coyoteth-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coyoteth-188x150.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s speech was good, and he &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-president-apprentice-season-opener\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}