{"id":42837,"date":"2025-08-23T10:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42837"},"modified":"2025-08-23T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:10:51","slug":"he-missed-his-true-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/08\/23\/he-missed-his-true-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"He Missed His True Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a White House release of a conversation between President Trump and President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ilham_Aliyev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev<\/a> of Azerbaijan, who&#8217;s generally considered a dictator:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Trump 00:13:15-00:13:26 (11 sec)<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much. &#8212; Great leaders, how long have you been in the leadership position?<\/p>\n<p>Ilham Aliyev 00:13:26-00:13:27 (1 sec)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump 00:13:27-00:13:29 (2 sec)<\/p>\n<p>22 years, that&#8217;s pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Ilham Aliyev 00:13:29-00:13:30 (1 sec)<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump 00:13:30-00:13:37 (7 sec)<\/p>\n<p>That means he&#8217;s tough and smart. And it&#8217;s a &#8212; an amazing part of the world. Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>Ilham Aliyev 00:13:37-00:13:37 ( sec)<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump 00:13:37-00:13:38 (2 sec)<\/p>\n<p>What a great honor to be involved.<\/p>\n<p>Ilham Aliyev 00:13:38-00:13:39 (1 sec)<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, President is not Donny&#8217;s best role.<\/p>\n<p>He should have been editor-in-chief, a sinecure to be sure, of the quarterly <em><strong>Dictator Review<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a White House release of a conversation between President Trump and President Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev of Azerbaijan, who&#8217;s generally considered a dictator: Donald Trump 00:13:15-00:13:26 (11 sec) Thank you very much. &#8212; Great leaders, how long have you been in the leadership position? Ilham Aliyev 00:13:26-00:13:27 (1 sec) \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/08\/23\/he-missed-his-true-calling\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42838,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42837\/revisions\/42838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}