{"id":218788,"date":"2017-01-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=218788"},"modified":"2017-01-25T16:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T21:13:51","slug":"trump-is-stealing-organized-labor-from-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/24\/trump-is-stealing-organized-labor-from-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Stealing Organized Labor from Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: You know all that talk about how Barack Obama was gonna be the postracial president and Barack Obama was gonna be the postpartisan president and all that? And, of course, it was all bunk \u2019cause the country ended up more divided than we have been in many, many moons under Obama. But yet look at what the Trumpster is doing here. He\u2019s out there, he\u2019s literally stealing one of the hugest coalitions of the Democrat Party, and that\u2019s organized labor. He\u2019s literally stealing it from them while they watch it happen.<\/p>\n<p>And this all began with the <a href=\"https:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/27\/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition\/?_r=0\">Democrats back in November of 2011 admitting that they were writing off<\/a> as &#8212; an electoral objective &#8212; the white working-class voters of America. This was an Obama initiative, and they did it&#8230; The Democrat Party made a tactical &#8212; actually a strategic decision to abandon the white working class because they had a grander idea. They were gonna go out, and they were gonna appeal to all of these disparate minorities: The sexual minorities, the gender minorities, the racial minorities, the ethnic minorities, the religious minorities, the vaginal minorities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-218809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpLabor.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpLabor.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpLabor-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>I mean, every minority you can think of! They were gonna go get \u2019em all, and they couldn\u2019t do that while also appealing to the white working class because in the Democrats\u2019 new construct, the white working class was the enemy. The white working class &#8212; white people in general &#8212; were the people doing all the discriminating against these new, precious minorities. And I think what got the Democrats all hyped up on this&#8230; You know, they believe what they read in their own media, and their own media has been touting this upcoming, approaching, can\u2019t-do-anything-about-it demographic shift in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve heard that the demographic shift is such that the white majority\u2019s days are numbered in this country &#8212; and, as an aside, justifiably so because the white majority created all this discrimination and slavery and racism and bigotry and discrimination and Christianity. So it\u2019s good that they\u2019re losing their majority. The problem is for the Democrats that the white population of the country is still 78%. So they maybe were a little early here, and by writing off such a huge percentage of the white working class, in terms of people that are going to seek votes from, they calculated really badly. There aren\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you get all of these obscure minorities, and then even if you get all of them to show up and vote, you still are nowhere near overpowering or outnumbering the white working majority that you have just sent packing. And we\u2019re seeing the results of this. As I keep telling you, the Democrats have just lost electoral seat after electoral seat. I mean, they\u2019re down over 1200 seats starting with the 2010 midterms. And they only have 16 governorships in the country.<\/p>\n<p>And now have you heard what is happening in the race for the new chair of the Democrat National Committee? (interruption) Yeah, I\u2019m gonna get to all this Trump stuff. Just hang on, folks. I\u2019ll tell you something. What Trump\u2019s doing is amazing, but I am also focused on the opposition, \u2019cause I find that\u2019s where the fun is. That\u2019s&#8230; When liberals are out of power, that\u2019s when they get funny and that\u2019s when it\u2019s safe to laugh at \u2019em, always keeping them at arm\u2019s length. But if you doubt what I just said, from <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/01\/23\/white-candidate-for-dnc-chair-says-her-job-will-be-to-shut-other-white-people-down-video\/\">The Daily Caller.<\/a>.. We have the audio; we\u2019re working on getting it now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LDOdcsh435Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sally Boynton Brown, a white woman running for chair of the Democratic National Committee&#8230;&#8221; In other words, the woman who\u2019s going &#8212; the person who\u2019s gonna head up the entire Democrat Party, the DNC, the job formerly held by Debbie &#8220;Blabbermouth&#8221; Schultz. &#8220;Sally Boynton Brown, a white woman running for chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Monday that if she is chosen to lead the party her job will be to &#8216;shut other white people down.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quote: &#8220;&#8216;My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt,\u2019 Brown said during a DNC candidate forum. &#8230; &#8216;My job is to shut other white people down when they want to say, &#8220;oh, no, I\u2019m not prejudice; I\u2019m a Democrat; I\u2019m accepting,&#8221;&#8216; Brown bellowed during the forum, which was hosted by [P]MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid. Brown began her three-minute pitch by chiding white Democratic leaders over what she said is the party\u2019s failure to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a winning majority movement for you, and this is the Democrat Party today: The white majority is the focus of evil and now the person that wants to head the DNC &#8212; and she\u2019s not the only one. Some of these other candidates also have the same attitude. So the Democrats look like they\u2019re about ready to make this official. Not just an Obama campaign strategy, but now an official movement to discard fully &#8212; well, I don\u2019t know what percentage of the 77% of the population that\u2019s white, what percentage of that is white working class, but it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012417_-Labor.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012417_-Labor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012417_-Labor.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012417_-Labor-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>Just throw it away in exchange for what they hope for is this demographic shift that\u2019s gonna make all these minorities, when you add \u2019em up, the new majority. And all they\u2019re doing is alienating their own constituency. Do you realize one of the bulk groups in the white working class is union people? And the Democrat Party has owned them forever! Frustratingly so. And now Donald Trump is literally stealing some of these union people right out from under the Democrats while they look at it happen, and apparently don\u2019t have any problem with it. I mean, if anybody\u2019s headed to postpartisan America here, it looks like Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I realize&#8230; Now, don\u2019t jump to any conclusions. I realize some of you might be saying, &#8216;Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait just a minute, Rush. I hope you are not all-in on this.&#8221; I know what you\u2019re saying. &#8220;Trump, a Republican, gaining the praise and favor of union leaders who are questionable? I mean, we\u2019ve had our problems with them. Are you sure you want to jump all&#8230;?&#8221; I\u2019m not jumping in on it, folks. I\u2019m just telling you what\u2019s going on here. I think it\u2019s fascinating to watch. And I tell you, official Washington&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you watched Fox last night, if you watched CNN, there was a narrative, and the narrative: &#8220;Trump had the greatest day of his presidency yesterday.&#8221; The narrative is this: That Trump had a horrible day Saturday. I mean, virtually everybody on Fox, it didn\u2019t matter how many panelists they had, every panelist said the same thing. &#8220;Trump had a horrible day Saturday! Oh, my God, it was embarrassing! First Spicer, then Trump goes over to CIA. Oh, it was just embarrassingly bad! We were all worried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then yesterday came and they said, &#8220;Trump got a second chance at his first day, and Monday was his real first day. We\u2019ll throw Saturday out,&#8221; and what they were talking about was what a great day he had. I mean, from the morning \u2019til the night, Trump agenda after agenda, meeting after meeting. He stole the unions. The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Sent packing. This morning the Keystone pipeline and the Dakota thing also sent packing. And it is monumental. He\u2019s just signing executive orders. He\u2019s reading them before he signs them. I noticed that.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s actually reading these things. That\u2019s good. That\u2019s good. Obama didn\u2019t read them. I didn\u2019t see him read them, he just put the John Henry on there. Trump\u2019s actually taking the time to read these things, and he doesn\u2019t ask an aide what he\u2019s signing. He reads it and then reads it to people, he reads it to the media, and then signs it, puts his signature on there. But it is&#8230; I mean, the politics of this are just flat-out stunning. I think much of this is what a lot of Trump supporters foresaw. I think a lot of people supported Trump knowing full well or hoping full well that this is the kind of thing that would happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Cause I think one of the things that\u2019s not quite understood by the Drive-Bys as they look at people that supported Trump, they look at people that attended Trump rallies, they still don\u2019t know what they\u2019re dealing with. They don\u2019t know what they\u2019re dealing with in Trump yet, I still maintain. But they\u2019re really, really out to lunch when it comes to Trump\u2019s supporters. They have no idea. They are wrong in many of their assessments about why Trump supporters support Trump, and the one thing they leave out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpHard-Hats-B2-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpHard-Hats-B2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpHard-Hats-B2-1.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpHard-Hats-B2-1-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a>I mean, they get some of it right. The one thing they leave out, they have no clue &#8212; they think they do, but they don\u2019t know precisely &#8212; just how much opposition there is to the Democrat Party in Trump supporters. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea. They are underestimating that aspect of the Trump support base. They are underestimating the animosity that Trump supporters have for liberalism and for the Democrat Party and what they have done to this country.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a combination. Trump supporters are a combination of things. There\u2019s varying degrees of literal support, visceral support for Trump, and there are Trump supporters who support him for those reasons plus they just have had it. They have had their fill of the destruction that has been brought about by the Democrat Party, and I can go down the list. You know the things: Obamacare, immigration, taxes. That leads back to Obamacare. Economic stagnation and the focus&#8230; Let\u2019s not forget to mention this.<\/p>\n<p>Many people who support Trump are very much aware that the Democrat Party considers them the enemy in this country, the white working class. The Democrat Party has signaled them as the enemy. They have politically behaved as though they\u2019re the enemy. And the white working class is very much aware that the Democrat Party considers them the enemy or the problem &#8212; the location, the focal point of all the supposedly wrongs and I always in our country: Racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, all of those things. They are headquartered in the white working class.<\/p>\n<p>The white working class is very much aware of it. So the Democrats are digging their grave each and every day while they think they are rebuilding. It\u2019s great to watch. And I tell you, our old buddy Jonathan Martin who used to be at Politico who occasionally would send me an email asking from a contribution for me in a story he was writing. (He doesn\u2019t do that much anymore. That\u2019s okay. No big deal.) He\u2019s now at the New York Times, and there\u2019s a piece in the New York Times by Jonathan Martin today about how the Democrats are gonna come back.<\/p>\n<p>How the Democrats are gonna rebuild. What the Democrats are gonna do to put it all back together. What the Democrats are gonna do to start winning elections, starting in the midterms in 2008. The headline: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/23\/us\/politics\/justice-democrats-liberal-progressive.html\">&#8220;Angry Democrats Study the Tea Party\u2019s Playbook.&#8221;<\/a> Are you kidding me? I read this story, and (laughing) I started laughing and I started cheering and I was at the same time incredulous. &#8220;Angry Democrats Study the Tea Party\u2019s Playbook.&#8221; Now, what are they gonna learn from it? See, that\u2019s always the thing.<\/p>\n<p>They can study it all they want, but what are they gonna learn from it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let\u2019s investigate here. &#8220;Freshly energized protesters are taking to the streets, members of Congress are being confronted in their districts by constituents angry over health care, and wealthy donors are turning fear into action. Eight years after Republicans united after a stinging electoral defeat to oppose President Barack Obama, Democrats are channeling an even deeper anxiety over President Trump &#8212; and a far shallower defeat &#8212; into a newfound burst of organizing,&#8221; and what the next paragraph says is that Democrats hope to create &#8220;a Tea Party equivalent from the left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TeaPartyandOccupyWallStreet.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TeaPartyandOccupyWallStreet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TeaPartyandOccupyWallStreet.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TeaPartyandOccupyWallStreet-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a>Now, wait a minute. I know what you\u2019re all saying. &#8220;Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! What about Occupy Wall Street? I thought that\u2019s what that was. Occupy Wall Street.&#8221; Remember when the Tea Party sprang to life, the Democrats went out and created Occupy Wall Street and tried to tell us that it was organic. And it wasn\u2019t. They bought it, they paid for it, they organized it, they cherry-picked it. There was nothing organic or natural about Occupy Wall Street. Why do the Democrats need to do anything? They already have Occupy Wall Street, and they\u2019ve got Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently Occupy Wall Street\u2019s days have come to a close. It had a specific timeframe and agenda, and now Occupy Wall Street\u2019s over. But the Tea Party isn\u2019t. The first mistake the Democrats are making is the Republicans did not create the Tea Party. Right here in this story: &#8220;Angry Democrats Study Tea Party Playbook.&#8221; What they\u2019re missing&#8230; They can study it all they want. What they\u2019re missing is something they will never admit: The Tea Party is genuinely organic. It sprang up out of Middle America.<\/p>\n<p>It had no congressional or Republican Party membership. There were no ties. The Tea Party had nothing to do&#8230; In fact, the Tea Party was as much opposed to the Republican establishment as it was the Democrat establishment. The Republican Party didn\u2019t create the Tea Party. The Republican Party didn\u2019t organize the Tea Party to go out and do its bidding. The Tea Party existed despite both political establishments. The Democrats are gonna go out and create a Tea Party equivalent, when they\u2019ve already done it: Occupy Wall Street. They tried it again with Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t gonna work.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t gonna work because it isn\u2019t natural.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like asking people to call Washington. You give \u2019em a phone number, say, &#8220;Call Washington; raise hell,&#8221; and then people do it. That\u2019s not organic. If you have to tell people to call Washington, then it otherwise would not have happened, right? So that\u2019s why I\u2019ve never participated in telling people to call Washington (I only did it once to demonstrate what would happen if I did, (\u2019cause it isn\u2019t real. The Tea Party was real. Real people who had never been in politics before &#8212; fed up with what was happening &#8212; organized and got involved.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s none of that on the Democrat side. I mean, that already doesn\u2019t exist. So they want to create what they think was phony. The Tea Party, to them, was a political construct with the Republican Party was behind it. They\u2019re clueless. They remain clueless. Not that they\u2019re no longer dangerous, don\u2019t misunderstand. They\u2019re clueless.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: In addition to the union activity that Trump has scored major points with for the Trans-Pacific Partnership withdrawal, you\u2019ve got these labor leaders &#8212; many of whom we have been at odds with all of our lives. Many of these labor leaders, they\u2019ve been in bed with the Democrat Party, they\u2019ve been raising money for the Democrat Party, they\u2019ve been funding the Democrat Party, and now they are in love with Trump as of today. They described the meeting with Trump as &#8220;incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the George W. Bush administration push for comprehensive immigration reform? And I told you that on a couple of occasions, emissaries from the White House were dispatched down here to get my mind right on it. I never was in favor of it. And one of the things they told me in trying to convince me to support it was, &#8220;This is how we\u2019re gonna destroy the Democrat Party. If we can own the immigration issue, we can own the Hispanic population. We can wipe the Democrat Party out!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SpicerTrump.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-218687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SpicerTrump-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SpicerTrump-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SpicerTrump.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Now, isn\u2019t it fascinating to me (and to you) that here\u2019s Donald Trump actually doing it, but not with immigration? He\u2019s&#8230; Well, in fact he\u2019s gonna do it with immigration, too. But the way Donald Trump\u2019s blowing up the Democrat Party is to take away an even bigger constituency than Hispanics. He\u2019s on the verge of co-opting labor, white working-class people that the Democrat Party has decided they want no part of anymore, and here\u2019s Trump sweeping them up. And if this becomes permanent, and if Trump follows through on redoing these trade deals and canceling others and cements this attachment of Big Labor to his administration?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care whether they\u2019re signing on with Republicans or not. The point is, they\u2019re abandoning Democrats, and the Democrat Party has always been a coalition of constituency groups that have a couple of things in common, but no more than a couple. You\u2019ve had the feminists. You\u2019ve had African-Americans. You\u2019ve had this minority, that minority. You\u2019ve had Big Labor. The one thing they had in common was love of Big Government and hatred of conservatism, and the Democrats throwing them away is a relevant step in Trump scooping them up.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is scooping them up with policy. The Republicans aren\u2019t. This is a key point to make, and I think a lot of people say, &#8220;Trump ran as a Republican, but these people are joining Trump.&#8221; And it\u2019s gonna be fascinating to watch this all play out. And I don\u2019t think the Democrats are aware of what\u2019s happening to them. They obviously aren\u2019t. And now the latest this morning, about 11 o\u2019clock, Trump signed executive orders advancing the Keystone and Dakota pipelines. Those are two pipelines that Obama and the Democrats had stopped, and the reason they did was not climate change. It wasn\u2019t to protect the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t fall for any of that. Warren Buffett owns the trains, and it\u2019s the trains transporting the oil when you don\u2019t have a pipeline. So Warren Buffett was opposed to the pipelines, and Obama loved an association with Warren Buffett and Warren Buffett\u2019s money, and he also was able &#8212; and Hillary, too &#8212; to scoop up environmentalist wacko money by denying the construction of the pipelines. But the left\u2019s objection to these pipelines had nothing to do with the environment, folks. Literally nothing to do, because pipelines are eminently safer than trains and over-the-road trucks.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re eminently safer for accidents or what have you. And, by the way, the Dakota pipeline does not traverse one inch of sacred Indian ground. That\u2019s another lie that\u2019s been told. The reason the environmentalist wackos oppose these pipelines has everything to do with capitalism. They don\u2019t want anything built with the powers of free market economy. They want government in charge of as much as they can secure, and they want the government being anti-capitalist and pro-socialist. And this is the primary reason. And they just&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They shrouded their opposition to this in environmentalist terms to scoop up gullible voters like Millennials and others who\u2019ve been made to believe that the planet\u2019s not gonna be habitable by the time they reach 65 because of climate change. It was a giant, giant snooker that Hillary and Obama and the Democrats were engaged in. The Keystone protests are not about the transmission of oil or fossil fuel. It\u2019s all about anti-capitalism. Here\u2019s Trump, by the way, at the White House &#8212; this is late yesterday afternoon &#8212; with union leaders applauding Trump for terminating the Trans-Pacific Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: This is a group that I know well, whether personally or just because I\u2019ve hired thousands and thousands and thousands of you. We just officially terminated TPP.<\/p>\n<p>UNION LEADERS: (applause)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012417_Trump-To-America.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218895 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012417_Trump-To-America.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012417_Trump-To-America.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012417_Trump-To-America-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>THE PRESIDENT: And I\u2019ve just signed a document &#8212; a very powerful document &#8212; and we\u2019re gonna have trade, but we\u2019re gonna have one on one, and if somebody misbehaves we\u2019re gonna send them a letter of termination, 30 days. And they\u2019ll either straighten it out or we\u2019re gone, not one of these deals where you can\u2019t get out of it; it\u2019s a disaster. So gonna have plenty of trade. But TPP wasn\u2019t the right way.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And here\u2019s Trump to the union leaders after all this, telling them that he\u2019s gonna bring jobs back to the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: We\u2019re gonna put a lot of people back to work. We\u2019re gonna use common sense and we\u2019re gonna do it the way it\u2019s supposed to be done. We\u2019re going to stop the ridiculous trade deals that are taking everybody out of our country and taking companies out of our country, and it\u2019s gonna be reversed. I think you\u2019re gonna have a lot of companies come back to our country, companies that left &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Stop the tape. We\u2019ve all heard Trump say that stuff. Here is Sean McGarvey, who is North America\u2019s Building Trades Unions president, speaking to the media about the meeting with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>MCGARVEY: We just had probably the most incredible meeting of our careers with the president and the vice president and senior staff, when the president laid out his plans about how he\u2019s gonna handle trade, how he\u2019s gonna invest in our infrastructure and how he\u2019s gonna level the playing field for construction workers and all Americans across this country. And then took the time to take everyone into the Oval Office and show \u2019em the seat of power in the world&#8230; The respect that the president of the United States just showed us &#8212; and when he shows it to us, he shows it to three million of our members in the United States &#8212; was nothing short of incredible, and we will work with him and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I want you to imagine&#8230; We\u2019ll get into&#8230; Look, I know, I know. There\u2019s stuff to be said about this. But for the moment I want you to imagine you\u2019re Obama and you\u2019re wherever you are, and you\u2019re sitting there, and every hour you watch your agenda shredded. And then you hear your former donors and people that loved you praise Trump the way they never praised you.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, he\u2019s meeting with car executives, too, this morning in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Now, stop and think of this. Most people say, &#8220;What do you mean, auto executives? Didn\u2019t Obama save the auto industry?&#8221; You go back to the 2012 Democrat convention and what was the slogan? &#8220;GM is [something] and Osama is dead?&#8221; I forget the exact slogan, but you know, Obama took over General Motors, supposedly gave it to the unions, and &#8220;saved&#8221; the auto industry by having the government buy it. What in the world is Trump doing meeting with these guys? Well, here\u2019s a little bite. Trump promising carmakers he\u2019s gonna help \u2019em. This is at the White House&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M66MApqOw3o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: We\u2019re gonna make the process much more simple for the auto companies and for everybody else that wants to do business in the United States. I think you\u2019re gonna find us to be from very inhospitable to extremely hospitable. I think we\u2019ll go down as one of the most friendly countries, and right now it\u2019s not. I mean, I have friends that want to build in the United States. They go many, many years and then they can\u2019t get their environmental permit over something that nobody ever heard of before. And it\u2019s absolutely crazy. And I am, to a large extent, an environmentalist. I believe in it. But it\u2019s out of control, and we\u2019re gonna make a very short process, and we\u2019re going to either give you your permits or we\u2019re not gonna give you your permits. But you\u2019re gonna know very quickly. And generally speaking, we\u2019re gonna be giving you your permits. So we\u2019re gonna be very friendly.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There again. So Trump\u2019s with the auto executives, and that seems to be going along just fine. Now, I want to go back to the union guys for just a second, because I\u2019m well aware that there are many of you out there who have some trepidation over this. I mean, let\u2019s be honest: Up until this year if you mentioned the name Richard Trumka or Jimmy Hoffa Jr., I mean, this was like&#8230; This was bad news. These guys were aligned with the Democrat Party, they donated to the Democrat Party, they propped up the Democrat Party, they elected the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>They were for Big Government. They were for everything that we opposed as conservatives. They raised money, they campaigned &#8212; they did television production, commercials &#8212; for Democrats. They excoriated Republicans. They had made these ads showing Paul Ryan pushing his grandmother over a cliff in a wheelchair. They did some despicable things. They hated the Republican Party. They hated conservatism. They hated the idea of small government. They were in bed almost literally with the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>Now all of a sudden, these same guys are singing the praises of Donald J. Trump. Are any of you worried about this, or is there some caution\/reservation about this among any of you? I mean, have they changed? Are they still the same people that loooove the Democrats and looooved Big Government and looooved anybody that opposed Republicans? These the same people that whatever the issue was &#8212; abortion, immigration &#8212; whatever the Democrat Party\u2019s position on it was, these union guys were lockstep. Have they changed? What\u2019s changed?<\/p>\n<p>What has made them abandon the Democrat Party? Is it substance? Is it Trump and these trade deals and actually opening up job opportunities for labor unions? Didn\u2019t the Democrats do that, or was this another instance where&#8230;? Like the Democrats get 93% of the vote of the African-American community but really never do anything for them. Angry African-Americans have been angry for as long as they\u2019ve been voting Democrat! They are lives haven\u2019t improved; the Democrat Party hasn\u2019t made that big a difference in their lives, in their fortunes, in their futures. But they keep voting Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>The unions were the same.<\/p>\n<p>The unions were constantly angry, constantly enraged, always ripping a new one for Republicans and so forth. 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