{"id":161797,"date":"2020-09-24T03:38:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/24\/donald-in-blunderland-trump-wont-commit-to-peaceful-power-transfer-at-surreal-press-briefing\/"},"modified":"2020-09-24T03:38:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:38:41","slug":"donald-in-blunderland-trump-wont-commit-to-peaceful-power-transfer-at-surreal-press-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=161797","title":{"rendered":"Donald in Blunderland: Trump won&#039;t commit to peaceful power transfer at surreal press briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Smith\u2019s sketch: President takes us through the looking glass amid the kneecapping of American democracyJared Kushner, the US president\u2019s son-in-law, told journalist Bob Woodward that one of the best ways to understand Donald Trump is to study Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland. Kushner paraphrased the Cheshire Cat\u2019s philosophy: \u201cIf you don\u2019t know where you\u2019re going, any path will get you there.\u201dWednesday was one of those days when to have a seat in the White House briefing room felts like stepping through the looking-glass into Blunderland, where the mad hatter has an authoritarian streak a mile wide. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/sep\/23\/donald-trump-press-conference-us-elections-breonna-taylor\" target=\"_blank\">Donald in Blunderland: Trump won&#039;t commit to peaceful power transfer at surreal press briefing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Smith\u2019s sketch: President takes us through the looking glass amid the kneecapping of American democracyJared Kushner, the US president\u2019s son-in-law, told journalist Bob Woodward that one of the best ways to understand Donald Trump is to study Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland. Kushner paraphrased the Cheshire Cat\u2019s philosophy: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}