{"id":101,"date":"2017-02-14T21:39:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2017-02-14T21:48:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:48:50","slug":"stephen-banning-advising-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/101","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Banning Advising Trump&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/319436-trump-upset-by-snl-sketch-showing-bannon-manipulating-him\">We hear Donald J. Trump is quite upset about this<\/a>. Donald surely has\u00a0thin skin eh?<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pZOF9q5fzfs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Here at <em>Rational Nation <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">U<\/span><span style=\"color: #999999;\">S<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A<\/span><\/strong><\/em> we find much\u00a0truth in this humorous skit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hear Donald J. Trump is quite upset about this. Donald surely has\u00a0thin skin eh? Here at Rational Nation USA we find much\u00a0truth in this humorous skit. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-1D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":247,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/247","url_meta":{"origin":101,"position":0},"title":"Trump Confirmed Less Credible Than the Meadia, By The Poeple&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"February 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump is losing his fight with the media. 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