{"id":12858659,"date":"2026-03-03T00:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12858659"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:03:37","slug":"trump-makes-surreal-turn-from-talking-war-to-mocking-melania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2026\/03\/03\/trump-makes-surreal-turn-from-talking-war-to-mocking-melania\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Makes Surreal Turn From Talking War to Mocking Melania"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-makes-surreal-turn-from-talking-war-to-mocking-melania\/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=TheDailyBeast\/magazine\/Latest+Stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Makes Surreal Turn From Talking War to Mocking Melania<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><em>The president made a sharp switch from praising service members risking their lives to boasting about his ballroom.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-stack b-double-chain\" data-style-direction=\"vertical\" data-style-justification=\"start\" data-style-alignment=\"unset\" data-style-inline=\"false\" data-style-wrap=\"nowrap\">\n<div class=\"c-grid b-double-chain__children-grid\">\n<div class=\"c-stack b-double-chain__child-item\" data-style-direction=\"vertical\" data-style-justification=\"start\" data-style-alignment=\"unset\" data-style-inline=\"false\" data-style-wrap=\"nowrap\">\n<div class=\"Article-byline--single-author\">\n<div class=\"Article-byline--single-author__container \">\n<div class=\"Article-byline--single-author__author\">\n<div class=\"Article-byline--single-author__author-info\"><a class=\"Article-byline--single-author__author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/author\/sarah-ewell-wice\"><span class=\"Article-byline--single-author__author-name\">By Sarah Ewall-Wice, The Daily Beast<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article id=\"main-article\">\n<p>President Donald Trump may have launched a war with Iran over the weekend, but his mind rapidly wandered to other topics on Monday: his ballroom, First Lady Melania\u2019s complaints and picking out the drapes.<\/p>\n<p>The president, 79, gave his first public update on attacking Iran on Monday at the start of a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House. But he rapidly jumped to other topics after indicating the attack on Iran could go for five weeks or \u201cfar longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-makes-surreal-turn-from-talking-war-to-mocking-melania\/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=TheDailyBeast\/magazine\/Latest+Stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president made a sharp switch from praising service members risking their lives to boasting about his ballroom. President Donald Trump may have \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12858661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1,12,25391],"tags":[371],"class_list":{"0":"post-12858659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-available","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"category-phils-favorites","10":"category-members-corner","11":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12858659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12858694,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858659\/revisions\/12858694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12858661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12858659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12858659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12858659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}