{"id":4349,"date":"2025-08-17T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4349\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:05:08","slug":"cnns-john-king-on-living-with-ms-his-irish-roots-and-what-he-thinks-of-us-presidents-donald-trump-and-bill-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4349\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s John King on living with MS, his Irish roots and what he thinks of US Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe US news network\u2019s silver-haired chief national correspondent on growing up as an Irish-American in blue-collar Boston, covering the scandal-filled years of the Clintons, his daily challenges living with MS \u2013 and what he really thinks of the US President\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John King gives a nod to his Galway roots as he relaxes in his office in CNN in Washington. Photo: Benjamin Lowy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b3926af9-9d38-4250-ab60-b60f532d65b0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John King gives a nod to his Galway roots as he relaxes in his office in CNN in Washington. Photo: Benjamin Lowy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cMultiple sclerosis sucks,\u201d says John King, CNN\u2019s white-haired, Irish-American oracle on politics for the last 25 years. \u201cThe heat is the worst for me. We have had a very hot summer in Washington, and even when I travelled it has been very hot. So, I can\u2019t go outside as much as I would like, because I would lose my ability to walk or to function in other ways in the heat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Diagnosed in 2008, he publicly revealed he had the disease on his show, Inside Politics, in 2021. \u201cMS is a very cruel disease to many people who get it,\u201d King says now. \u201cThey go from walking to wheelchairs in a matter of months. They lose the ability to do things, whether they are craftsmen or dancers, that they love. That challenges me every day. I still get to do the things that I love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US news network\u2019s silver-haired chief national correspondent on growing up as an Irish-American in blue-collar Boston, covering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[4750,4747,4749,9,10,356,18,13,14,6,4748,19,17,11,12,4746,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-4349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-barry-egan","10":"tag-bill-clinton","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breakingnews","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-featured-news","16":"tag-featurednews","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-hillary-clinton","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-latest-news","22":"tag-latestnews","23":"tag-life-magazine","24":"tag-main-news","25":"tag-mainnews","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}