{"id":134990,"date":"2016-03-12T21:13:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T04:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=134990"},"modified":"2016-10-12T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:11:49","slug":"obama-mocks-gop-for-giving-rise-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/03\/obama-mocks-gop-for-giving-rise-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama mocks GOP for giving rise to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_134992\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-134992\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/POTUS-Austin2016-003A_jpg_800x1000_q100-771x515.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obama\" width=\"771\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/POTUS-Austin2016-003A_jpg_800x1000_q100-771x515.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/POTUS-Austin2016-003A_jpg_800x1000_q100-336x224.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/POTUS-Austin2016-003A_jpg_800x1000_q100-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/POTUS-Austin2016-003A_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Bob Daemmrich \/ For The Texas Tribune<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser at the Austin Music Hall on Friday, March 11, 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AUSTIN \u2014 President Barack Obama on Friday, weighing in on the controversial candidacy of Donald Trump, ridiculed the so-called &#8220;Republican establishment&#8221; for being &#8220;shocked&#8221; by the billionaire&#8217;s rise to presidential frontrunner.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, Obama said, is a monster they created.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article originally appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/03\/11\/obama-mocks-gop-giving-rise-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Texas Tribune<\/a>,\u00a0a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans and engages with them about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Now all of a sudden they\u2019re shocked that there\u2019s gambling going on in the establishment,&#8221; Obama said at a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. &#8220;What\u2019s happening in this primary is just a distillation of what\u2019s been happening in their party for more than a decade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama also recalled his own run-ins with Trump, who questioned a few years ago whether Obama was\u00a0eligible\u00a0to be president due to his\u00a0birthplace.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;This is the guy who was sure that I was born in Kenya, who just won\u2019t let it go, and all this same Republican establishment, they we\u2019re saying nothing,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;As long as it was directed at me, they were fine with it. It was a hoot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fundraiser, which was held at Austin Music Hall, is part of a daylong trip to the city by the president that ends later Friday evening with another fundraiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama on Friday ridiculed the so-called &#8220;Republican establishment&#8221; for being &#8220;shocked&#8221; by the billionaire&#8217;s rise to presidential frontrunner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[708,3307,226,116],"class_list":["post-134990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-presidential-race","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}