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RUSH:\u00a0 Well, I guess it\u2019s all but official now.\u00a0 Trump has reached the magic number to clinch the nomination of the Republican Party.\u00a0 Of course, the magic number, 1,237, and Trump is now at 1,238.\u00a0 Now, according to the AP, which apparently does not see the irony in this, the AP report says that Trump got past the magic number with the support of, one, a female delegate — and women supposedly hate Trump. And, number two, the delegate that actually put Trump over the top is an unbound delegate from Colorado, which wasn\u2019t supposed to happen because Cruz scooped up all the delegates in Colorado.That wasn\u2019t supposed happen, neither of these, women hate Trump, Colorado went for Cruz, and yet a woman and an unbound Colorado delegate put Trump over the top. AP making it official.\u00a0 Unofficial here, it\u2019s not official \u2019til the first ballot, convention of course, but there you go, 1,238 delegates and it\u2019s just gonna keep climbing.<\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends, El Rushbo behind the Golden EIB Microphone here at the distinguished, the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s all kinds of stuff out there today.\u00a0 So we have Obama in Japan saying that Trump is rattling foreign leaders because they\u2019re afraid his policies might not be thought through.\u00a0 Frankly, I am ready for foreign leaders to be a little rattled by what\u2019s happening in this country — as opposed to what they have become accustomed to and what they have come to expect out of this country, which is a blank check.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s about time foreign countries — by the way, if you hear some squeaking, I got some new shoes, and I\u2019m telling you, these things make noise when I — you hear that?\u00a0 That\u2019s my shoes.\u00a0 Leather being broken in.\u00a0 So there\u2019s nothing wrong here.\u00a0 Look, it\u2019s loud.\u00a0 If I can hear it, it\u2019s loud.\u00a0 You know, I go walking through the halls here and at first, “What in the world?” Thought I\u2019m about to fall through the floor here and then I figured out it was the new shoes.\u00a0 Great, great shoes, by the way, best shoes, Trump shoes, brand-new leather.\u00a0(laughing) Just kidding.\u00a0 They\u2019re Tommy Bahamas.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the only one.\u00a0 Obama in Japan saying that world leaders are rattled.\u00a0 And there\u2019s another story, same premise, only about global warming, that Trump doesn\u2019t seem to be aligned in a right way on global warming.\u00a0 They\u2019re very, very, very concerned out there.\u00a0 I even read this on my tech blogs.\u00a0 They\u2019re very, very concerned.\u00a0 They\u2019re laughing at Trump.\u00a0 They\u2019re mocking Trump \u2019cause Trump thinks that global warming is a hoax sponsored by the ChiComs to impede our economic growth.\u00a0 It is a hoax.\u00a0 It is a leftist hoax and it may indeed involve the ChiComs, but Trump\u2019s instincts on this are correct.<\/p>\n

But grab sound bite 23.\u00a0 Paul Ryan.\u00a0 This is from his weekly press conference this morning, and it\u2019s only at the top of the sound bite roster here because of the AP story, Trump reaching the magic number to clinch the nomination, 1,238.\u00a0 So this is Ryan, the Speaker of the House, weekly press briefing, and during the Q&A, Luke Russert, the NBC congressional correspondent, said, “Speaker Ryan, I wondered how the phone call went with Mr. Trump last night.\u00a0 We heard from your team that it was good.\u00a0 Is there anything more you can share?”<\/p>\n

RYAN:\u00a0 It was a productive phone call.\u00a0 Like I said, we\u2019ve had these conversations, our staffs have been meeting.\u00a0 We had a very good and very productive phone call.\u00a0 So I\u2019ll leave it at that.\u00a0 What I\u2019m most concerned about is making sure that we actually have real party unity, not pretend party unity, real party unity because we need to win this election in the fall.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I guess he\u2019s still waiting for real party unity before endorsing Trump.\u00a0 Let me just tell you Trumpsters something.\u00a0 Trump is making this tougher on Ryan than it needs to be.\u00a0 When he went after Susana Martinez, Ryan has no choice but to be protective of her.\u00a0 I mean, she\u2019s chairman of Republican governors.\u00a0 You can frown in there at me all you want and I don\u2019t care whether what Trump said about her was true or not.\u00a0 I was asking myself, why in the world, the timing of this, when Trump himself states that he\u2019s attempting to unify the party.<\/p>\n

By going after Susana Martinez, Trump gave Ryan a reason to hold off a couple more days or week or whatever.\u00a0 I mean, Ryan can\u2019t come out and endorse Trump the day after he dumps on a Republican governor.\u00a0 You just can\u2019t do it, no matter who\u2019s right or wrong. No matter what Trump said about her, right or wrong, it doesn\u2019t matter, just the optics.\u00a0 You understand that, right?\u00a0 I know she dumped on him first.<\/p>\n

By the way, there\u2019s a story here that hasn\u2019t gotten a lot of attention.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s big, and I think it\u2019s important, and I think it is, for those of you who are deeply invested in Donald Trump, it\u2019s crucially important, and it\u2019s very, very comforting.\u00a0 It\u2019s the story about how he fired Rick Wiley.\u00a0 But a lot of people, “What\u2019s the big deal about that, Rush?”<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019ll tell you why it\u2019s a big deal.\u00a0 It\u2019s a big deal for what it stands for and what it represents.\u00a0 You know, Rick Wiley is an establishment guy.\u00a0 Manafort hired him. He was also an establishment guy. He ran Scott Walker\u2019s campaign in Wisconsin.\u00a0 So he\u2019s got establishment bona fides, and Manafort brought this guy in, and they were going to try to, I don\u2019t know, overthrow, they were gonna try to take control of campaign from Trump\u2019s team that he\u2019s had throughout the primaries, led by Lewandowski and whoever else is in that mix.<\/p>\n

Now, you might remember, it was either last week or the week before that I issued a warning of sorts that one of the pitfalls Donald Trump is going to face as the weeks and days go by and as he gets closer to and then surpasses the number of delegates — this is human nature; it happens in many businesses; it has happened to me. One of the reasons I am fully aware of this is because of personal experience with it — the effort to change Trump is going to be intense from within his own campaign.\u00a0It\u2019ll be well intentioned, but it\u2019ll be wrong.<\/p>\n

There are people who tell Trump, “You\u2019ve gotta change, now. You have won the nomination.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the primaries.\u00a0 It\u2019s the general.\u00a0 You have to change.”\u00a0 And what that means is: “You have to tone it down! You have to dial it back.\u00a0 You have to become more presidential.”\u00a0 Whatever the advice is, it will consist of people thinking that Trump now has to grow in stature, in office, and drop whatever it is that worked during the primaries because they\u2019re over now, and we\u2019re on to the general, and it\u2019s not a whole slate of opponents. It\u2019s one opponent, and there\u2019s all kinds of money involved now.<\/p>\n

And the biggest mistake Trump could make would be to take any of that advice.\u00a0 The biggest mistake Trump could make would be to listen to anybody who tells him it\u2019s time to change.\u00a0 Now, some of the advice is intended to sabotage, even people supposedly in your own circle.\u00a0 Folks, there\u2019s envy and there\u2019s jealousy within every organization, and in something like Trump\u2019s — which is red hot. It is the focus of attention in the modern world today, and everybody involved wants the light to shine on them, too.\u00a0 It\u2019s human nature.<\/p>\n

There are people in that organization, in every organization, particularly those that are humming and are hot and have a lot of attention focused on them. There are people within those organizations who want attention themselves.\u00a0 They want to be credited as the advisor, as the confidant, as the guy who has Trump\u2019s ear, as the guy who\u2019s making Trump be Trump.\u00a0 They\u2019re everywhere. Some of them are well-intentioned; some of them are just attention starved.<\/p>\n

Others are saboteurs.\u00a0 And the fact that Trump… This is not about Wiley.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even know him.\u00a0 What I\u2019m about to say here is not intended personally about Rick Wiley.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know him.\u00a0 I\u2019m speaking to you, really, using my own experiences, which are overwhelming in number.\u00a0 Let me just… Folks, let me put it to you this way to set this up.\u00a0 I have been doing this radio program… If you count the 3-1\/2 years that I did in Sacramento before I went national 1988, I\u2019ve been doing this program over 30 years.<\/p>\n

And along the way there were consultants at radio stations where I worked.\u00a0 Some of these consultants had never, ever been behind a microphone.\u00a0 Some of these consultants had never, ever run a radio station.\u00a0 In the 30 years that I\u2019ve been doing this program, I have had two people not try to change me.\u00a0 Everybody else that I\u2019ve worked with in management or consultants, tried to get me to change.\u00a0 Some of them even threatened to fire me if I didn\u2019t change.<\/p>\n

And what I mean by that is, “You can\u2019t do a show without guests.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t start getting guests in here — \u2019cause nobody listens to talk show without guests — you\u2019re not gonna last.”\u00a0 Ratings would come in, my ratings would be higher than anybody else\u2019s on the station, and people would come to me, “This isn\u2019t gonna last.\u00a0 You\u2019d better start getting guests,” or, “You\u2019d better stop playing all that music or whatever you\u2019re doing! It\u2019s not talk radio, what you\u2019re doing. You can\u2019t do it that way.”\u00a0 All the ex… Only two people.<\/p>\n

If I had been… What\u2019s the word? If I had been forced to take the advice of I-can\u2019t-tell-you-how-many consultants — I\u2019m talking, 10, 12 — I wouldn\u2019t be here today.\u00a0 My program would have been a failure, “Because you just can\u2019t do it that way.”\u00a0 I said, “When have you ever done it?”\u00a0 “Well, I have a track record! I\u2019ve consulted stations here and there.”\u00a0 “Yeah, how are they doing?”\u00a0 “Well, nobody does it like you.”\u00a0 “Precisely! It\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to achieve here.”\u00a0 It got knock-down, drag-out at times.<\/p>\n

Some of these consultants even today are quoted in magazine articles about how, “You know what? This Limbaugh thing is a fad! It isn\u2019t gonna last. It isn\u2019t gonna last. He\u2019s not gonna last! He isn\u2019t gonna last.” Even 28 years later, they\u2019re out there saying, “It isn\u2019t gonna last!” They\u2019re out there saying, “It\u2019s over,” doom and gloom. So my point is… These are not my friends.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have consultants.\u00a0 I have never had a consultant.\u00a0 Since this show started live, there has never been a consultant.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about when I worked at radio stations that had hired consultants.<\/p>\n

Trump is facing the same thing.\u00a0 Everybody who is a powerful personality, who is generating a lot of heat, who is winning at what he\u2019s doing and Trump\u2019s doing all of that by a multiple factor of 10, Trump just owns it right now.\u00a0 And there are people that don\u2019t like that.\u00a0 There are people that want to be part of it.\u00a0 There are people who want you to think they are responsible for it.\u00a0 There are all kinds of people surrounding Trump right now, and I\u2019m guarantee you that he\u2019s being advised by…\u00a0 I don\u2019t know who they are, but I will guarantee you he\u2019s being advised to change.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s being advised… He\u2019s being told by some people, “You can\u2019t do it this way! You can\u2019t keep doing it the way you\u2019re doing it. You\u2019ve got to change. You\u2019ve got to become more president. You\u2019ve got to do,” whatever.\u00a0 He\u2019s got people on his staff telling him to ignore that, too.\u00a0 Don\u2019t… He\u2019s got all kinds there.\u00a0 The point is, he ought not listen to anybody except the people he goes to to ask questions.\u00a0 But if somebody comes in and starts giving him advice, let it go in one ear and out the other.<\/p>\n

Depending on who the person is, be respectful.\u00a0 But Trump\u2019s instincts are just fine, and he had better continue to trust them.\u00a0 He had better not start doubting them.\u00a0 He\u2019d better not let other people make him doubt them.\u00a0 Not to say he\u2019s not gonna make mistakes.\u00a0 Not to say he\u2019s not gonna wish he could take something back.\u00a0 But the point is, the only stuff that would be fatal to Donald Trump is if for some reason people in his campaign started listening to the media, started listening to critics.<\/p>\n

Or some of the people within the campaign got scared, “Oh, my God, I don\u2019t think Trump can keep this up! You can\u2019t keep talking this way. He\u2019s not gonna win,” and tries to change him.\u00a0 He\u2019s got to have a steel spine.\u00a0 I think he does.\u00a0 I think he loves himself enough to remain who he is, and that was my advice last week.\u00a0 Whoever he is, is what\u2019s gotten him where he is.\u00a0 He\u2019s got to stay who he is.\u00a0 He must not let anybody, well-intentioned or otherwise, talk him out of being who he is.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t put a teleprompter up there unless it\u2019s an official policy speech to some group of people where even the slightest mistake cannot occur.\u00a0 Otherwise, leave the teleprompter.\u00a0 I\u2019ll give you a classic example: Last night in Anaheim or yesterday in Anaheim.\u00a0 By the way, kudos. They waited \u2019til after this program was over to start the rally in Anaheim.\u00a0 Did you notice that?\u00a0 And even it was late at that.\u00a0 Because it was late, the organizers of the event — the people that Trump had hired to put on the event wherever it was, the convention center — went to Trump.<\/p>\n

And they said, “Look, sir, we\u2019re running behind and we\u2019re gonna have to scrub the National Anthem.\u00a0 We just don\u2019t have to time, we\u2019re so far behind schedule.”\u00a0 Trump said, “What do you mean? We\u2019re not canceling the National Anthem,” and he called the singer up on the stage right then and right there and made her sing the National Anthem right after he\u2019d been told they had to cancel it. He took a step or two away, gave her the stage, gave her the microphone, put his hand over his heart, and mouthed the words as she was singing.<\/p>\n

It was a great rendition.\u00a0 That act is worth more votes and more loyalty and deepens the bond of connection.\u00a0 You know, stop and I think of it. Something you and I would think is as innocuous as the National Anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner can mean something to Donald Trump. Because there are people in this country who don\u2019t like it.\u00a0 Democrats, leftists, anti-Americans, what have you.\u00a0 Something as simple as what is considered to be noncontroversial, tradition — the singing of the National Anthem — can become provocative.<\/p>\n

Because there\u2019s some who don\u2019t like it. But whatever. Trump instinctively knew not to have the National Anthem ripped.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t want it canceled, and he took care of it.\u00a0 A lot of people would have listened to the organizers. A lot of others would say, “Okay, okay, okay.”\u00a0 He\u2019s got to continue this.\u00a0 The pressure to change, the pressure from all these so-called know-it-all consultants who\u2019ve never done what he\u2019s doing — in business or in politics — who have never done what he\u2019s doing, will be trying to tell him.<\/p>\n

So the fact that he got rid of this guy… I don\u2019t know Rick Wiley.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a comment about him. But the fact that Trump got rid of the guy, to me, is a good sign that he\u2019s holding on to his identity and is confident in who he is and has realized he doesn\u2019t need the kind of advice if it\u2019s, “Mr. Trump, you have to change. Mr. Trump, you can\u2019t keep doing this.”\u00a0 “Oh, yeah?\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 Well, find another candidate.\u00a0 You\u2019re gone.”<\/p>\n

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RUSH:\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 Folks, my point is simply: I\u2019ve been there.\u00a0 I have been where Trump is, and I know what kind of things are happening.\u00a0 I know the efforts to change him.\u00a0 I know the fear.\u00a0 As I say, some of it\u2019s well-intentioned.\u00a0 Others are saboteurs and so forth.\u00a0 It\u2019s why I can relate to so much of what\u2019s happening with Trump and his campaign. It\u2019s precisely because I\u2019ve been there.\u00a0 I just… I\u2019ve not spent any time telling you about this stuff.\u00a0 It\u2019s all inside baseball.\u00a0 I mean, I\u2019m not gonna come here every day and explain, “Guess what happened to me when the show…<\/p>\n

“I had a meeting and they told me…” I\u2019m not bother you with it.\u00a0 But just trust me.\u00a0 For the first couple years of this program, you would not believe.\u00a0 I mean, and these guys were all out there telling me, “You can\u2019t do it the way you do!\u00a0 You\u2019re gonna fail.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want you on my station.\u00a0 You better change! You want to be big in Latrobe or you want to be big in New York?”\u00a0 I heard that twice at WABC.\u00a0 Those guys that told me that are not working, and yet they\u2019re quoted in every story about how I\u2019m about to end.<\/p>\n

So I know what\u2019s happening with Trump in the campaign.\u00a0 I know the kind of people that are out there trying to sabotage it and also trying to nose in on it and to get some of the attention for themselves.\u00a0 There are all kinds of personalities out there. In every organization that\u2019s somewhat large, you\u2019re gonna have a mix of those people.\u00a0 Now, the real backstory, what happened with Rick Wiley happens to be in Politico, but I don\u2019t think they realize their own lead here.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: ere\u2019s what happened with this Rick Wiley story.\u00a0 It\u2019s in The Politico<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m gonna read The Politico verbiage first, and then I\u2019m gonna translate it for you.\u00a0 “On Thursday, word leaked back to Trump. He phoned Giorno, concerned, sources said. ‘Tell me what\u2019s wrong?\u2019 Trump asked her, according to one person familiar with the call. ‘Karen unloaded on Wiley,\u2019 the source said. ‘Mr. Trump is loyal. He believed her. \ud7c0\ufffd Rick picked a fight with the wrong person.\u2019 At that point, Trump ordered Wiley to stay away from Giorno and to neither call nor email her. ‘Donald is loyal. And she\u2019s loyal,\u2019 a source said.”<\/p>\n

Let me translate this for you.\u00a0 Rick Wiley — and I\u2019m just picking this up from Politico — tried a power play, and these are common in these organizations.\u00a0 So much of this stuff, I feel like I\u2019m reliving it in a sense, when I hear about these things.\u00a0 This guy, Wiley, tried a power play, on Trump\u2019s female manager, Karen Giorno.\u00a0 She\u2019s the Florida campaign chairwoman.\u00a0 And Wiley, an associate of Paul Manafort\u2019s, who Trump had hired, attempted a power play to get her out and to take over her job as he was attempting to amass power within the Trump organization. And Trump, when hearing about this, sided with the woman, in no uncertain terms, and so Rick Wiley is out.<\/p>\n

Trump did not care about gender.\u00a0 He only cared about competence and loyalty.\u00a0 But in this story, so far, no reporters have mentioned that the reason Rick Wiley was let go was because Trump is remaining loyal to and standing by his Florida female campaign manager over the guy.\u00a0 So we have a female delegate and a delegate from Colorado who are the two that put Trump over the top.\u00a0 We have Trump siding with his female campaign manager in Florida, Karen Giorno, and Rick Wiley, the relatively new hire brought in by Manafort, is gone.<\/p>\n

The irony is totally lost on the press because the press has this narrative that Trump hate\u2019s women and women hate Trump.\u00a0 You know, one of the silliest narratives that\u2019s out there is Donald Trump hates women.\u00a0 Donald Trump loves women.\u00a0 He happens to really like beautiful women.\u00a0 That\u2019s being portrayed as kooky and abnormal and strange and weird and something we must investigate.\u00a0 But it is the most natural thing since God created Adam and Eve, that a man is attracted to women he finds attractive, and all men have different definitions of attractive.\u00a0 That is manifestly obvious.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing unnatural about it.<\/p>\n

What is unnatural, what makes no sense whatsoever — ladies in this audience, when you hear all these news reports about how Trump hates women, stop and think what kind of sense that has. They\u2019ve said that about every conservative in the context of feminism.\u00a0 “Well, he\u2019s anti-female.”\u00a0 No.\u00a0 There\u2019s no anti-female.\u00a0 Anti-liberal, maybe, anti-feminist ideology.\u00a0 Trump doesn\u2019t hate women.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the stupidest allegations I\u2019ve ever heard.<\/p>\n

I know it works.\u00a0 There are a lot of women, we had one call yesterday not particularly crazy about Trump because of what she thinks Trump thinks of women.\u00a0 But he loves them.\u00a0 He loves being around them; he loves being surrounded by them.\u00a0 He stands by them.\u00a0 He hires them.\u00a0 He pays them as much or more as he pays the men.\u00a0 A woman was in charge of getting Trump Tower built.\u00a0 That\u2019s his home, in addition to his building.\u00a0 He stood by this woman, Karen Giorno, who is his Florida campaign manager, over this so-called highly touted professional and also, must be stated, GOP Establishment consultant type guy.<\/p>\n

And yet after today it\u2019s still gonna be out there that Trump hates women.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the silliest things.\u00a0 Not just about Trump.\u00a0 They say it about every conservative. They say it about every Republican.\u00a0 Anti-female, anti-gay, anti-this.\u00a0 If you ever stop to think about it, it literally makes no sense.\u00a0 You\u2019re gonna hate half the population?\u00a0 It\u2019s absurd.\u00a0 But particularly in Trump\u2019s case.\u00a0 It\u2019s just the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

Now, grab audio sound bite 15, maybe through 20 here.\u00a0 Let me illustrate Trump being who he is.\u00a0 Whether you like it or not, whether people on his staff, “Oh, oh,” when they shudder when he says, “We gotta get him to change. We gotta get him to tone down. Oh, my God, he\u2019s gotta become more presidential.”\u00a0 As long Trump stays who he is.\u00a0 I mean, what\u2019s the old phrase, “You dance with who brung you.”\u00a0 I mean, he\u2019s where he is for a specific set of reasons, and it\u2019s not because of any consultant advice he got.\u00a0 It\u2019s not because of any polling or focus groups that he did.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is following his instincts, and he has a deeper bond and connection with his voters than any candidate in this race, including Bernie.\u00a0 And it\u2019s self-evident why.\u00a0 And, by the way, that threatens traditionalists, too.\u00a0 “Well, we\u2019ve gotta bust that up. We can\u2019t have that deep a connection, it\u2019s not healthy.\u00a0 We\u2019ll call it a cult, that\u2019s what we\u2019ll do, we\u2019ll call Trump\u2019s supporters a cult,” as the attempt to impugn them ratchets up.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not a cult at all.\u00a0 Trump supporters are there for specific reasons, specific, substantive reasons.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why every effort that\u2019s been made to separate Trump from his supporters has bombed.\u00a0 ‘Cause the people trying to separate Trump from his supporters don\u2019t even know why the bond exists.\u00a0 They probably never experienced one themselves.<\/p>\n

So this is late yesterday in Anaheim at the campaign event, and here\u2019s Trump speaking about Kristol, Bill Kristol.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been waiting for him to get around — you know, Kristol is the face of this highly touted effort in establishment circles to come up with a third party candidate, because Trump is so unacceptable, Trump is just, yuk, ew, we can\u2019t be associated with that. Even if we lose we\u2019ve gotta find a third party.\u00a0 And Kristol is noted as leading that movement.<\/p>\n

TRUMP:\u00a0 I just happened to see this guy in one of the shows the other day.\u00a0 Bill Kristol, he\u2019s got some magazine, I don\u2019t even know what the hell it is, and he\u2019s saying “oh, we\u2019re looking for another candidate.\u00a0 We\u2019re looking.\u00a0 We\u2019re looking.”\u00a0 He\u2019s sweating, he\u2019s sweating.\u00a0 “We\u2019re still looking for a third-party candidate.”\u00a0 He\u2019s been doing this for like nine months.\u00a0 He can\u2019t find anybody.\u00a0 What a loser.\u00a0 What a loser.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Now, people inside the Trump campaign shudder, “Oh no, he didn\u2019t say that, not about Bill Kristol, we gotta walk it back, we gotta walk it back, we gotta get Mr. Trump to walk it back.”\u00a0 No, you don\u2019t.\u00a0 That\u2019s who he is.\u00a0 He\u2019s got to remain who he is.\u00a0 However far it takes him.\u00a0 If he starts abandoning who he is, if he tries to become somebody he\u2019s not, that\u2019s how he breaks the bond with his own supporters.\u00a0 Only he can do it.\u00a0 If he starts taking advice to tone it down or to take it in a different direction — (interruption) no, no, no.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying that there isn\u2019t room for improvement.<\/p>\n

The point is his instincts have guided him this far, and we\u2019re in a business where people don\u2019t trust instincts.\u00a0 They trust consultants.\u00a0 They trust research.\u00a0 They trust focus groups.\u00a0 They trust polls.\u00a0 They trust everything but their own brains.\u00a0 Trump is relying on his own brain and his own heart.\u00a0 What do you think Bill Buckley meant when he said, “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than the faculty at Harvard”?\u00a0 It\u2019s exactly what he meant.\u00a0 And then, as you know, one of the names Bill Kristol continues to tout as this potential third-party candidate savior is Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

TRUMP:\u00a0 Poor Mitt Romney.\u00a0 Poor Mitt.\u00a0 I have a store that\u2019s worth more money than he is.\u00a0 I helped him.\u00a0 I raised for him.\u00a0 I endorsed him.\u00a0 He wanted my endorsement — he begged for my endorsement — and now all he does is bad mouth.\u00a0 I understand losers.\u00a0 You can make a lot of money with losers.\u00a0 I said, “Mitt cannot run.\u00a0 He choked like a dog.\u00a0 He\u2019s a choker.\u00a0 Once a choker, always a choker.”\u00a0 So now, as retribution, “Donald Trump shouldn\u2019t run, blah, blah, blah,” and he walks like a penguin onto the stage.\u00a0 You ever seen?<\/p>\n

CROWD: (laughter)<\/p>\n

TRUMP Like a penguin!<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 “He walks like a penguin,” and the people in the Trump camp say, “Oh, no, he didn\u2019t! Gotta back it off. We gotta back it off! Get back to the issues, Donald. Please talk about the wall. Please talk about the Mexicans. Please talk the Muslims. Please talk foreign policy. Don\u2019t say Romney walks like a penguin! Oh, no.”\u00a0 And Donald Trump is gonna keep doing what he does. Did you hear the crowd? The crowd doesn\u2019t want Mitt Romney to be president.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want Bill Kristol choosing the president, and that\u2019s all you need to know.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Kristol. This is yesterday, Bloomberg Politics website, Masters in Politics blog. Betsy Fischer Martin, I guess, is the cohost here, and she said, “How\u2019s it going in terms of finding that third-party candidate to run out there against Trump?”<\/p>\n

KRISTOL:\u00a0 I think the leading possibility — the real maybe the last chance here — is with Mitt Romney, who has said “no,” but I think is thinking seriously about it.\u00a0 I think he thinks that maybe he is the right person to do it.\u00a0 I think we might have a shot at Mitt Romney doing it.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 “Might have you a shot at Mitt Romney, third-party candidate, to upset Donald Trump campaign.” The GOP Establishment still hasn\u2019t given up, folks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Here\u2019s that National Anthem bit at the Anaheim. What would…? I guess the Anaheim convention center is where Trump did the rally yesterday afternoon after this program.\u00a0 This is when the organizer said, “Mr. Trump, we\u2019re running so far behind, we just don\u2019t have time National Anthem.\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna have to cancel the National Anthem.”<\/p>\n

TRUMP:\u00a0 I got here, and they all said, “We have a great crowd. We don\u2019t have time for the National Anthem.” \u00a0I said, “Yes, we do.”<\/p>\n

CROWD: (cheers)<\/p>\n

TRUMP: We have time for the National Anthem, right?\u00a0 And we have a young lady that is going to sing it.\u00a0 I said, “What are you doing?” She said, “Well, I was supposed to sing but they had time because of the television cameras. They couldn\u2019t do it.” I said, “Guess what?\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna do the National Anthem.” Okay?\u00a0 So Sherry Wilkins, come up.\u00a0 Sherry, come on.<\/p>\n

CROWD: U! S! A! U! S! A!<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Now, I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s unique.\u00a0 I mean, I don\u2019t know if you had any other candidate who would have reacted the same way.\u00a0 You might have.\u00a0 But the point is there are candidates who would have agreed to cancel the National Anthem and nothing would have been said about it. Just do the event. There\u2019s no anthem. Nobody would have said anything about it.\u00a0 But Trump… “Life is show prep” has been my phrase. “Life is show prep.”\u00a0 And apparently be careful what you say to Trump, \u2019cause he\u2019s gonna use it. He\u2019s gonna use it and he\u2019s gonna turn it to his advantage if he can.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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