{"id":36549,"date":"2025-03-05T11:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=36549"},"modified":"2025-03-05T11:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:37:06","slug":"brent-nelsen-comments-on-speech-to-joint-session-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-comments-on-speech-to-joint-session-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Nelsen comments on speech to joint session of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of President Donald Trump&#8217;s address to a joint session of Congress March 4, Furman University&#8217;s Brent Nelsen spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/report\/a2d4e964-15b0-40d3-8502-29cbcc33fb91\/91fa640e-5b16-4984-b73c-7961ceea3490\">FOX Carolina News<\/a> about how the speech might unfold. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, said Trump would treat the address as a campaign rally and explain domestic policy issues including the border and trimming federal bureaucracy. Nelsen&#8217;s commentary ran several times during FOX Carolina&#8217;s morning news broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On FOX Carolina, Furman&#8217;s Brent Nelsen tees up Donald Trump&#8217;s speech to a joint session of Congress that took place March 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32],"tags":[597,3288,704,2772],"class_list":["post-36549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-congress","tag-domestic-policy","tag-donald-trump","tag-u-s-mexico-border"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36550,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549\/revisions\/36550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}