{"id":346311,"date":"2018-02-01T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-glorifying-us-militarism-ron-paul\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T10:24:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:24:31","slug":"presstv-trump-glorifying-us-militarism-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-glorifying-us-militarism-ron-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump glorifying US militarism: Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump\u2019s first State of the Union address was nothing but a \u201cglorification\u201d of American militarism, according\u00a0to renowned US politician and thinker Ron Paul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul, a former Republican congressman who has also run for presidency, said in an interview on the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/featured-articles\/2018\/january\/31\/making-america-greator-poorer-dissecting-the-state-of-the-union-speech\/\">website <\/a>that all Trump\u2019s plan\u00a0for expanding the US military was in no way nationalistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is one thing that the militarism is tied to patriotism and you see this coming together in\u2026 a negative way for our government [and] our taxpayer\u2019s money,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>During his first address before Congress on Tuesday, Trump urged lawmakers to \u201cfully fund\u201d the US military so that it can face what he referred to as \u201crogue regimes, terrorist groups, and rivals like China and Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a candidate, Trump pledged an ambitious plan to equip the US military with 355 ships, 1,200 Air Force fighter jets and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/01\/550899\/US-Trump-SOTU-Ron-Paul-militarism-Guantanamo\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s first State of the Union address was nothing but a \u201cglorification\u201d of American militarism, according\u00a0to renowned US politician and thinker Ron Paul. Paul, a former Republican congressman who has also run for presidency, said in an interview on the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity&#8217;s website that all Trump\u2019s plan\u00a0for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}