{"id":36395,"date":"2020-03-23T03:10:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36395"},"modified":"2020-03-23T03:10:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:10:04","slug":"trump-talks-himself-up-as-wartime-president-to-lead-america-through-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36395","title":{"rendered":"Trump talks himself up as &#8216;wartime president&#8217; to lead America through a crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president initially scoffed at the coronavirus. Now he seems persuaded he can lead- and reassuring four more times in November<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton used to lament that his time as US president was broadly peaceful, and lacked a historic test of his mettle. Donald Trump believes that his minute has arrived: a crisis on a par with producing a nation at war.<\/p>\n<p> Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/21\/donald-trump-boris-johnson-coronavirus\">Lay off those campaign metaphors, global leader. You could be the next casualty &#8230; | Simon Tisdall<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/mar\/22\/trump-coronavirus-election-november-2020\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/mar\/22\/trump-coronavirus-election-november-2020\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president initially scoffed at the coronavirus. Now he seems persuaded he can lead- and reassuring four more times in November Bill Clinton used to lament that his time as US president was broadly peaceful, and lacked a historic test of his mettle. Donald Trump believes that his minute has arrived: a crisis on a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[179,15616,1953,15610],"class_list":["post-36395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-us-news","tag-us-politics","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/54721584933005.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}