{"id":43227,"date":"2020-11-26T12:32:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T17:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=43227"},"modified":"2020-11-30T17:49:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T22:49:32","slug":"how-about-this-the-cry-baby-clown-kings-latest-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/11\/how-about-this-the-cry-baby-clown-kings-latest-con.html","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Clown King&#8217;s Latest Confidence Game<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>An email arrived just in time for Thanksgiving, <br>asking for money to overturn the election <br>even after he has been declared\u2014<br>signed, sealed, and certified\u2014 <br>the absolute loser.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"402\" data-attachment-id=\"43226\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/clown-kings-con-1-750-enh\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/CLOWN-KINGS-CON-1-750-enh.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,402\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"THE CLOWN KING&amp;#8217;S THANKSGIVING DAY CON\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/CLOWN-KINGS-CON-1-750-enh-300x161.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/CLOWN-KINGS-CON-1-750-enh.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/CLOWN-KINGS-CON-1-750-enh.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/CLOWN-KINGS-CON-1-750-enh.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/CLOWN-KINGS-CON-1-750-enh-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"718\" height=\"754\" data-attachment-id=\"43400\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/trumps-confidence-game\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trumps-confidence-game.png\" data-orig-size=\"718,754\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Trump&amp;#8217;s confidence game\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trumps-confidence-game-286x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trumps-confidence-game.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trumps-confidence-game.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trumps-confidence-game.png 718w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trumps-confidence-game-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>Meanwhile, construction has begun on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2020\/11\/23\/us\/joe-biden-trump#trump-is-renovating-mar-a-lago-ostensibly-preparing-for-life-post-presidency\">renovations to his post-presidential living quarters<\/a> in Florida. Does he believe his voters are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milwaukeeindependent.com\/syndicated\/trump-nation-real-suckers-losers-americans-voted-charlatan\/\">brain-dead suckers? Of course<\/a>. <\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email arrived just in tiime for Thanksgiving, asking for contributions to help overturn the election even after he&#8217;s been declared\u2014signed, sealed, and certified\u2014the absolute loser. Meanwhile construction has begun on renovations to his post-presidential living quarters in Florida. Does he believe his supporters are brain-dead suckers? Of course. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-media","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trumps-confidence-game.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-bfd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43402,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227\/revisions\/43402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}