{"id":3959,"date":"2020-01-11T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2020-01-11T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T16:48:15","slug":"soleimanigate-the-significance-of-this-single-trump-episode-speaks-volumes-about-malicious-intent-malevolent-purpose-and-malignant-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3959","title":{"rendered":"SOLEIMANIgate: The significance of this single Trump episode speaks volumes about malicious intent, malevolent purpose and malignant attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump was eating meatloaf and ice cream at Mar-a-Lago as news of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani&#8217;s assassination broke<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3960\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-11-at-11.43.15-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"942\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-11-at-11.43.15-AM.png 942w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-11-at-11.43.15-AM-300x152.png 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-11-at-11.43.15-AM-768x388.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashley Collman<br \/>\nBusiness Insider<\/p>\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>President Donald Trump was eating dinner at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday night when news broke of the US&#8217;s assassination of Iranian Maj. Gen.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/qassem-soleimani\">Qassem Soleimani<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>CNN reported that meatloaf and ice cream were being served when the Pentagon confirmed that the US was behind the airstrike.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/?hprecirc-bullet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit Business Insider&#8217;s homepage for more stories<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Donald Trump was enjoying an all-American meal at Mar-a-Lago when news broke that Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani had been killed in a drone strike in Baghdad on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/middleeast\/live-news\/baghdad-airport-strike-live-intl-hnk\/h_65f1c6b6a688cd0f05cdb51b82de9dd8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins reported on Friday<\/a>\u00a0that meatloaf and ice cream were being served when the Pentagon confirmed that the US was behind the airstrike.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was eating at his Florida club with old friends and politicians, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Collins said.<\/p>\n<p>The report about his meal harks back to when Trump ordered an airstrike on a Syrian airfield in 2017 and told Chinese President Xi Jinping of the news over dinner at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>After that strike,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-chinese-president-syria-chocolate-cake-2017-4\">Trump made sure to detail the cake they had eaten<\/a>, calling it &#8220;the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>World leaders, including those from France, the UK, and Russia, have largely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/world-leaders-condemn-deadly-us-drone-strike-on-the-iranian-general-2020-1\">condemned the US drone strike<\/a>. National-security experts worry that killing Soleimani could lead Iran to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/iran-airstrike-qassem-soleimani-how-iran-could-take-revenge-2020-1\">retaliate against the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/lawmaker-reactions-us-responsibility-for-airstrike-iran-qassem-soleimani-2020-1\">joined other Democrats<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nancy-pelosi-criticizes-iran-soleimani-strike-for-escalating-violence-2020-1\">decrying the move<\/a>, saying that it &#8220;was taken without the consultation of the Congress.&#8221; Many Republicans were supportive of the strike, with Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1212933801816539136\">thanking Trump<\/a>\u00a0for &#8220;standing up for America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-ate-ice-cream-and-meatloaf-after-iraq-airstrike-2020-1\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-ate-ice-cream-and-meatloaf-after-iraq-airstrike-2020-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump was eating meatloaf and ice cream at Mar-a-Lago as news of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani&#8217;s assassination broke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}