{"id":13933,"date":"2017-05-02T16:09:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=13933"},"modified":"2017-05-02T16:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T20:15:49","slug":"trump-faux-populist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2017\/05\/02\/trump-faux-populist\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Media: Trump ISN’T A Populist, So Stop Calling Him One! (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does anyone else cringe when the media calls Trump a “populist?” I suggest these, instead: “purported populist,” “fake populist,” “alleged populist,” just-pretend populist,” or “faux populist.”<\/p>\n

A “faux populist” con hurtled Trump
\nTo the White House, the votes from each chump
\nGained by promises made
\nThat he’d come to their aid;
\nBigly duped by a fraud on the stump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does anyone else cringe when the media calls Trump a “populist?” I suggest these, instead: “purported populist,” “fake populist,” “alleged populist,” just-pretend populist,” or “faux populist.” A “faux populist” con hurtled Trump To the White House, the votes from each chump Gained by promises made That he’d come to their aid; Bigly duped by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,1550,44,21,114,20,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[2708,3082,516,390,2957,3081,2956,2681],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13936,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13933\/revisions\/13936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}