{"id":118167,"date":"2018-09-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=118167"},"modified":"2018-09-09T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:32:03","slug":"the-onion-has-chosen-to-publish-an-anonymous-op-ed-from-two-sources-close-to-trump-who-think-their-dad-is-the-best-president-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/09\/the-onion-has-chosen-to-publish-an-anonymous-op-ed-from-two-sources-close-to-trump-who-think-their-dad-is-the-best-president-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Onion\u2019 Has Chosen to Publish an Anonymous Op-Ed from Two Sources Close to Trump Who Think Their Dad Is the Best President Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>6 Sep 2018 &#8211; <\/em>Today, <em>The Onion<\/em> is making an unusual editorial decision, and we want to explain why. As turmoil continues to increase within the Trump White House, this essay offers an invaluable high-level perspective into the administration\u2019s inner workings. Due to the sensitive nature of this op-ed, revealing the identities of the writers could jeopardize their positions in the administration. We believe, however, that any issues with the writers\u2019 identities or their motivations for writing this piece are overridden by the necessity of informing the public about what it\u2019s like to work for the president. That is why <em>The Onion<\/em> has chosen to publish an anonymous op-ed from two sources close to Mr. Trump who think their dad is the best president ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-anonymous-onion.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-anonymous-onion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-anonymous-onion.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-anonymous-onion-114x300.jpg 114w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-anonymous-onion-768x2028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-anonymous-onion-388x1024.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/the-onion-has-chosen-to-publish-an-anonymous-op-ed-fr-1828863178\" >Go to Original \u2013 theonion.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Sep 2018 &#8211; Today, The Onion is making an unusual editorial decision, and we want to explain why. As turmoil continues to increase within the Trump White House, this essay offers an invaluable high-level perspective into the administration\u2019s inner workings. Due to the sensitive nature of this op-ed, revealing the identities of the writers could jeopardize their positions in the administration. We believe, however, that any issues with the writers\u2019 identities or their motivations for writing this piece are overridden by the necessity of informing the public about what it\u2019s like to work for the president. That is why The Onion has chosen to publish an anonymous op-ed from two sources close to Mr. Trump who think their dad is the best president ever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}