{"id":37997,"date":"2019-08-16T21:58:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37997"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:58:24","slug":"politics-the-trump-presidency-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/politics-the-trump-presidency-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics: the Trump presidency, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about US politics: the tutor reflects about the Trump presidency.<\/h2>\n<p>\nWith unemployment and crime very low, why are some voters seemingly unhappy with Trump?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDonald Trump is not a politician: he doesn&#8217;t just say what people want to hear. Rightly or wrongly, I think he&#8217;s in the habit of saying what he believes true, regardless of whom he might displease.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the 70s, most people, I recall, were more likely to say what they thought without filtering it. Today, almost everyone&#8217;s a politician.\n<\/p>\n<p>People can say all the right words, yet leave problems unhelped. Perhaps America is fortunate to have the problem it does &#8211; a president who&#8217;s less political, but who brings low crime and low unemployment. \n<\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/trump-administration-accomplishments\/\">www.whitehouse.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2019\/01\/03\/5-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s\/\">www.pewresearch.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about US politics: the tutor reflects about the Trump presidency. With unemployment and crime very low, why are some voters seemingly unhappy with Trump? Donald Trump is not a politician: he doesn&#8217;t just say what people want to hear. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/politics-the-trump-presidency-part-1\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politics: the Trump presidency, part 1<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2971],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38001,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37997\/revisions\/38001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}