{"id":31988,"date":"2025-01-30T21:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/was-he-grave-sombre-the-consoler-in-chief-are-you-kidding-this-is-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T21:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:10:42","slug":"was-he-grave-sombre-the-consoler-in-chief-are-you-kidding-this-is-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/was-he-grave-sombre-the-consoler-in-chief-are-you-kidding-this-is-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Was he grave, sombre, the consoler-in-chief? Are you kidding \u2013 this is Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after the Washington plane crash, the president\u2019s desire to politicise tragedy was breathtaking in its audacity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/30\/plane-crashes-near-washington-dc-after-mid-air-collision-with-military-helicopter-follow-live\">Washington DC plane crash \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the Challenger space shuttle disaster, Ronald Reagan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/archives\/speech\/address-nation-explosion-space-shuttle-challenger\">ended an Oval Office address<\/a> with the consoling thought that its crew had slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God. Successors such as Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden also shone in the crucial US presidential role of consoler-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>How would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> fare in his test since returning to the White House? On Thursday he came to the press briefing room just 14 hours after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/30\/washington-plane-crash-no-survivors\">collision of a passenger plane and army helicopter<\/a> near a Washington airport apparently left all 67 people dead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/30\/trump-washington-dc-plane-crash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after the Washington plane crash, the president\u2019s desire to politicise tragedy was breathtaking in its audacity Washington DC plane crash \u2013 latest updates After the Challenger space shuttle disaster, Ronald Reagan ended an Oval Office address with the consoling thought that its crew had slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face &#8230; <a title=\"Was he grave, sombre, the consoler-in-chief? Are you kidding \u2013 this is Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/was-he-grave-sombre-the-consoler-in-chief-are-you-kidding-this-is-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Was he grave, sombre, the consoler-in-chief? Are you kidding \u2013 this is Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}