{"id":38601,"date":"2025-04-12T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T11:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/completely-out-of-touch-golf-and-dinners-for-king-trump-as-economy-melts-down\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T11:06:21","slug":"completely-out-of-touch-golf-and-dinners-for-king-trump-as-economy-melts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/completely-out-of-touch-golf-and-dinners-for-king-trump-as-economy-melts-down\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Completely out of touch\u2019: golf and dinners for \u2018king\u2019 Trump as economy melts down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casual attitude as markets fall suggests man detached from anxieties of ordinary voters \u2013 and surrounded by yes men<\/p>\n<p>After lighting a fuse under global financial markets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> stepped back \u2013 all the way to a Florida golf course. A week later, having just caved to pressure to ease his trade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">tariffs<\/a>, the US president defended the retreat while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nascar\/news\/president-trump-honors-team-penske-drivers-at-white-house-ceremony\">hosting racing car champions<\/a> at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had spent the time in between golfing, dining with donors and making insouciant declarations such as \u201cthis is a great time to get rich\u201d, even as the US economy melted down.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/12\/trump-king-economy-golf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casual attitude as markets fall suggests man detached from anxieties of ordinary voters \u2013 and surrounded by yes men After lighting a fuse under global financial markets, Donald Trump stepped back \u2013 all the way to a Florida golf course. A week later, having just caved to pressure to ease his trade tariffs, the US &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Completely out of touch\u2019: golf and dinners for \u2018king\u2019 Trump as economy melts down\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/completely-out-of-touch-golf-and-dinners-for-king-trump-as-economy-melts-down\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Completely out of touch\u2019: golf and dinners for \u2018king\u2019 Trump as economy melts down\">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-38601","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\/38601","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=38601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}