{"id":375068,"date":"2018-08-27T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T09:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/surrender-donald\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T09:36:18","slug":"surrender-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/surrender-donald\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrender Donald"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\"><meta itemprop=\"image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/further\/mid_terms_37996439_609686052760935_6775115376758882304_n.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"wordCount\" content=\"352\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/users\/user1368\/surrender_claude_taylor_img_0301-994x663.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" alt=\"surrender_claude_taylor_img_0301-994x663\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>The popular beltway bridge, whose view frames an Oz-like view of the Mormon temple and long bore the graffitied message &#8220;Surrender Dorothy,&#8221; has been<a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/surrender-donald-bridge-beltway-mormon-temple\"> updated<\/a> for the Trumpian times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cretin in the White House is, as ever, hard at work. On Sunday, fresh from having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/further\/2018\/08\/25\/shut-anti-trump-jerks-its-not-any-you-know-where-all-colors-flag-go\">colored<\/a> the U.S. flag wrong in a botched attempt to make us either the Netherlands or Russia, he played golf after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\">refusing<\/a> to release a courteous, respectful, already drafted White House statement on the death of John McCain; always classy, he opted instead for a low mean tweet. After his golf game he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1033876658439245825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1033876658439245825&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fadministration%2F403727-trump-misstates-approval-rating-in-latest-poll\">returned<\/a> to <em>Twitter;<\/em> by then,\u00a0 several people had been killed in a mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, but he evidently forgot to mention them because he was so psyched to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/403727-trump-misstates-approval-rating-in-latest-poll\">boast<\/a> about his fictional approval numbers in a new poll showing what a popular guy he is and, like, the best human ever. Inexplicably, his new missive was widely <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1033876658439245825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1033876658439245825&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fadministration%2F403727-trump-misstates-approval-rating-in-latest-poll\">greeted <\/a>by venomous responses calling him &#8220;toxic,&#8221; &#8220;vile,&#8221; &#8220;twisted,&#8221; &#8220;evil,&#8221; &#8220;pathetic,&#8221; &#8220;deranged,&#8221; &#8220;a sham of a life,&#8221; &#8220;a petty, petty man,&#8221; and &#8220;a fucking useless piece of shit.&#8221; But anyhoo, he was real busy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\">So are the Democrats. According to a spreadsheet reportedly making the rounds in D.C.&#8217;s Republican circles and newly<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2018-midterm-elections-republicans-preparation-investigations-180abf7b-0de8-4670-ae8a-2e6da123c584.html\"> leaked<\/a> to <em>Axios, <\/em>House Democrats are preparing to launch over 100 investigations of the Trump administration if and when they flip the House in the mid-terms. The document, which catalogs requests the Dems have already made, cover subjects as boundless as Trump&#8217;s abuses: his tax returns, family business dealings, firing of U.S. attorneys, dismissal of EPA scientists, loose talk of classified info at Mar-a-Lago, the Puerto Rico debacle, the sleazy dealings of Jared, Mnuchin et al, all the bogus perks and scams and scandals &#8211; probes long blocked by a GOP that may be about to hit a Blue Wave. If so, Claude Taylor&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/maddogpac.com\/\"> Mad Dog PAC,<\/a> which works to unseat Trump, offers a way forward with its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2018\/08\/24\/mystery-solved-heres-who-put-that-surrender-donald-sign-up-over-the-beltway\/\">message<\/a> on a popular D.C. railroad bridge over the Beltway. Funded by sales of Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/maddogpac.com\/products\/trump-baby-balloon\/?variant=12297983754293\">balloons, <\/a>it urges, &#8220;Surrender Donald.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/users\/user1368\/space_force_38864112_10160780410785441_6382161178101022720_n.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"410\" alt=\"space_force_38864112_10160780410785441_6\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><em>Maybe they could all do this?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<b>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/further\/2018\/08\/26\/surrender-donald?cd-origin=rss\">Common Dreams<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular beltway bridge, whose view frames an Oz-like view of the Mormon temple and long bore the graffitied message &#8220;Surrender Dorothy,&#8221; has been updated for the Trumpian times. The cretin in the White House is, as ever, hard at work. On Sunday, fresh from having colored the U.S. flag wrong in a botched attempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375068","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=375068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}