{"id":22962,"date":"2026-08-29T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22962"},"modified":"2026-08-29T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:00:28","slug":"jd-vance-is-trying-to-be-someone-hes-not-w-ben-rhodes-bulwark-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22962","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance Is Trying to Be Someone He\u2019s Not (w\/ Ben Rhodes) | Bulwark Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump&#8217;s bombastic behavior of threats, tariffs, and war are making the world more skeptical of the United States. China is taking advantage of that and arguing&nbsp;that they are the more reliable power.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JD Vance Is Trying to Be Someone He\u2019s Not (w\/ Ben Rhodes) | Bulwark Daily\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LLFNVYZMNMk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s bombastic behavior of threats, tariffs, and war are making the world more skeptical of the United States. China is taking advantage of that and arguing that they are the more reliable power. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LLFNVYZMNMk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,390,221,272,355,314,509,208,170,619,158],"class_list":["post-22962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-politics","tag-tariffs","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22963,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962\/revisions\/22963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}