{"id":43264,"date":"2025-12-16T22:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43264"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:28:41","slug":"our-petty-hollow-squalid-ogre-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43264","title":{"rendered":"Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/12\/18\/multimedia\/16stephens-jtwh\/16stephens-jtwh-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:255px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/16\/opinion\/trump-reiner-death-post-truth-social.html?smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/16\/opinion\/trump-reiner-death-post-truth-social.html?smid=url-share<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">Though I tend to think it\u2019s usually a waste of space to devote a column to President Trump\u2019s personality \u2014 what more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? \u2014 sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.<\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/16\/opinion\/trump-reiner-death-post-truth-social.html?smid=url-share fta: Though I tend to think it\u2019s usually a waste of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1102,57],"class_list":["post-43264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-tfg","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43268,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43264\/revisions\/43268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}