{"id":26964,"date":"2024-08-05T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26964"},"modified":"2024-08-05T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:55:46","slug":"exactly-what-he-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26964","title":{"rendered":"exactly what he seems&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shattered-DJT-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26981\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shattered-DJT-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shattered-DJT-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shattered-DJT-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marytrump.org\/p\/same-as-it-ever-was?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\">https:\/\/www.marytrump.org\/p\/same-as-it-ever-was?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mary Trump<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;After eight years of covering Donald, too many journalists have gotten into the habit of seeing strategy in his crude and instinctive behavior. The truth is quite simple&#8211;Donald can\u2019t help himself. When it comes to him, we shouldn\u2019t overthink it. He is exactly what he seems: a racist, a misogynist, a liar. He is a bully who has no business getting anywhere near the White House. His pulling out of the debate should remind us that he is also a monumental coward.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trump-Portrait-in-Red.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26994\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trump-Portrait-in-Red.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trump-Portrait-in-Red-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trump-Portrait-in-Red-768x571.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Court-Painter-Bandage-commission.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26969\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Court-Painter-Bandage-commission.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Court-Painter-Bandage-commission-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Court-Painter-Bandage-commission-768x411.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Court Painter seen with The Donald arguing over which version will become part of his presidential library<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trump-Bandage-portrait-in-Red.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26970\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trump-Bandage-portrait-in-Red.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trump-Bandage-portrait-in-Red-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trump-Bandage-portrait-in-Red-768x571.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Trump &#8216;After eight years of covering Donald, too many journalists have gotten into the habit of seeing strategy in his crude and instinctive behavior. The truth is quite simple&#8211;Donald can\u2019t help himself. When it comes to him, we shouldn\u2019t overthink it. He is exactly what he seems: a racist, a misogynist, a liar. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;exactly what he seems&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26964"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26995,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26964\/revisions\/26995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}