{"id":219544,"date":"2017-01-31T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=219544"},"modified":"2017-02-01T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:02:51","slug":"trumps-executive-order-isnt-a-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/31\/trumps-executive-order-isnt-a-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Executive Order Isn\u2019t a Travel Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: When we get a good question on the phones, I will broom the show prep and\u00a0I will go to the phones, and we got a good one here. And we have another — this is a Millennial? Yeah, qualifies as a Millennial. Millennials are being born in 1984 forward, so this is Nicole in Jacksonville, Florida, says she\u2019s 19. How are you doing, Nicole? What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I\u2019m doing fine. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you, Mr. Limbaugh. I\u2019ve been trying to get through to you for two weeks now. I\u2019ve been listening to you since I was 14 years old. I\u2019m Democratic, but I voted for Trump. I just wanted to get your insight on the travel ban, because what Trump is doing right now, he\u2019s just stopping so much crime from coming into the country and people trying to do harm to the country and people just need to give him a chance and just let him tackle it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, it\u2019s a great question because of the answer. And the answer to the question is, you know, why aren\u2019t the Democrats giving Trump a chance, why are they reacting this way. Honestly, I don\u2019t mean to sound trite, and I\u2019m gonna back this up with an explanation, Nicole. You will not understand this intellectually unless you understand liberalism. You won\u2019t understand this behavior. You might not like it. You might think the Democrats are crazy. You might think it\u2019s a bit over the top, but you won\u2019t really understand it until you understand liberalism and what its purpose is.<\/p>\n

And, in this case, this is not a travel ban, folks. All this is is a temporary attempt to further vet certain refugees from six countries and Syria where the vast majority of terrorist activity has come from. It is an effort to keep America safe. It is also Trump fulfilling a campaign promise. His Homeland Security director — I just got the audio soundbite, not enough time to play it — John Kelly, Homeland Security secretary, John Kelly held a press conference today and during the Q&A, he was asked, “When did you learn specifically Trump would sign the executive order?”<\/p>\n

And Kelly says (paraphrasing), “A year and a half ago during the campaign when he told me he was gonna do it. I\u2019ve known since I first met Trump that he was gonna do this.” This is not a travel ban. Everybody that was detained has been released. It\u2019s exactly what Trump said it was going to be: further vetting to keep America safe. In large part here he\u2019s fulfilling a campaign promise.<\/p>\n

The left simply seizes an opportunity to recast this and recharacterize this as something that it\u2019s not, to portray Trump as a violator of human rights and civil rights, which is two areas the left thinks that they own, and it\u2019s an opportunity for protest and resistance, which has become their strategy just for the purpose of it. They don\u2019t even need specific reason. The Supreme Court nomination tonight is gonna launch another round of this, another wave of this, and it doesn\u2019t matter what Trump does, until they beat it back, this is going to keep happening. They don\u2019t want Trump to succeed. They don\u2019t want to give him a chance at all.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Back to the phones and this is Mary in Graham, Washington. Mary, welcome. I\u2019m glad you waited.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I just want to say thank you so much for all you do promoting America and giving us hope and educating us each day. It\u2019s really appreciated.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I sincerely appreciate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just want to tell you, I\u2019m extremely upset at these protesters and these demonstrators. I\u2019m a New Yorker. I almost lost four brothers that day. Three of my brothers had the buildings tipped in any which way, they wouldn\u2019t be here. My fourth brother was an airline steward that left 10 minutes earlier on his plane from Boston to LA. They just didn\u2019t happen to pick his plane. I had cousins on the lower towers. I had extended family who was a firefighter that lost his life.<\/p>\n

And these protesters do not understand what it\u2019s like to be thousands of miles away, you\u2019re calling your family trying to find out where everybody is, and they continue to protest and want people to just come into this country without any kind of extreme vetting is ridiculous. Those people in New York that had to deal with 9\/11 that day, they were going to work. They did not plan to go to war, and those terrorists went to war that day with us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, I hear everything you\u2019re saying. The protesters would tell you that they\u2019re not immune to the emotions of what you just described. They would tell you that Trump is identifying falsely and stigmatizing innocent people, accusing them because of their religion of being terrorists and he\u2019s being a bigot and so forth. And if Trump will go after them, he\u2019ll come after the people protesting him, and they want people to be afraid of Trump.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to gin up this fear that Trump is incompetent and he\u2019s a megalomaniac, that he\u2019s Hitler, that he\u2019s gonna start rounding people up and putting them in camps and so forth, all to obstruct and stop Trump. It doesn\u2019t matter what Trump does, Mary, the specifics are irrelevant. They\u2019re going to resist anything that is, in their minds, the slightest bit controversial.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all gonna ramp up again starting tonight when he names his Supreme Court pick, and we\u2019re gonna be here tomorrow going through the same rigmarole trying to set the record straight about who the nominee is, how the nominee is not a racist, he\u2019s not a sexist, he\u2019s not a pig, he doesn\u2019t hate women, he\u2019s not anti-gay, he\u2019s not anti-tranny, he\u2019s not anti-whatever, it\u2019s gonna be the same song and dance that I\u2019ve been going through for 28 years here in fighting these lame people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, for me, Rush, I know my brothers carry the memories to this day. And when 911 comes they are not mentally in good shape that day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. I have a friend who lost a son and still doesn\u2019t think that there has been an adequate response to it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He doesn\u2019t understand the coddling of the people from the religion that did this. He\u2019ll never understand it. I know exactly what you\u2019re saying, a hundred percent.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s extremely frustrating, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The fact that we don\u2019t want it to happen again and that all that\u2019s happening here, there have been other terror attacks during the Obama administration because there was lax vetting, and because Obama — look, here\u2019s the real deal on this. Most of these people protesting, to the extent that they even know what they\u2019re doing — and I mean that because most of them are just being paid. Many of them naturally oppose Republicans so that\u2019s all it takes. But these are organized protests.<\/p>\n

They are not spontaneous and organic. They\u2019re not representative of a majority of the country as they\u2019re made to look like. The truth is that many of these people leading the protests actually think the United States deserves these kind of attacks because of how mean we have been to other people around the world, that we need to get a taste of our own medicine. That\u2019s what you need to understand about \u2019em, the ones that know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We go back to the phones. Margate, New Jersey. This is Eric. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I miss The Hutch this time of year, Ken Hutcherson. Listen, I called to make a prediction.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If the president doesn\u2019t get out and remind the American people that Obama and the Democrats created ISIS with the void they left in the Middle East, the next time there\u2019s an attack here they\u2019re gonna blame what happened just this past weekend on President Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think Trump believes he\u2019s already done that. That was a staple of his campaign, that Obama and Hillary created ISIS by vacating Iraq prematurely. He may think he\u2019s covered that base. You think he needs to keep saying it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, because the American people forget pretty fast. And they\u2019re great on the blame game.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, well, I think you\u2019ve got a point. In fact, I saw this speculated somewhere that here comes Trump with his executive order to ostensibly vet incoming illegals and refugees as designed to make America safer. And then if there is a domestic terror attack, the left is gonna blame this very thing for it by saying that terrorists got really mad when Trump tried to keep them out of the country.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna say. They will say this. You\u2019re right. (laughing) It\u2019s hilarious on its face. They\u2019re gonna blame Trump\u2019s executive order for this because it made the terrorists mad and it made \u2019em even more committed to getting into the country and beating Trump\u2019s efforts to keep \u2019em out.<\/p>\n

And therefore the next terror attack will be all Trump\u2019s fault. And the same people were those people exonerating Obama, had nothing to do with it, Obama\u2019s policies were irrelevant say, the San Bernardino County massacre, for example. It\u2019s a good point that you have out there, Eric.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Mandy in Philadelphia. Glad you waited. Great to have you next on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to start by saying, I\u2019ve been a longtime fan. I\u2019ve been armed with the Limbaugh Letter since the early nineties, and you\u2019ve helped me to identify, avoid, and fight liberalism. Because you are able to explain, and kind of get into the head of the president, I wanted your opinion on the timing of the immigration executive order, which I\u2019m very much for as far as doing it before his cabinet has been voted upon. And also there\u2019s these reports that he didn\u2019t include all of his cabinet members such as General Mattis. What do you make of all of that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m like you; I have to guess. There have been some questions answered about this by administration officials, but we\u2019re still left to fill in some of the blanks ourselves. I think one of the things here that is going on that… To me, it\u2019s not a negative. Some people might interpret it as such. But I really think that Trump was intent on showing his supporters that he meant what he said and that he\u2019s not just idle chatter and he wasn\u2019t gonna wait around. And this is one of the major aspects of his campaign.<\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s a little marketing and PR in this. Not that it\u2019s not substantive, but I think he was hell-bent on doing this and getting it done quickly so that people realize he meant it and they could continue to have faith in him. I think that he has some advisers (because the cabinet\u2019s not fully in place) who took control of this and got it out as quickly as they could get it out without going through all of the necessary steps just because they thought it was important to do.<\/p>\n

Maybe there\u2019s some turf wars going on, too, with people making marks there in the administration for what areas they correctly, and this was a demonstration of that. Whatever errors that were involved here, I think, are resulting from good intentions. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the result of inexperienced people rushing to do something before they were ready to do it. But clearly the implementation could have been much, much better, and it will be as time goes by. The substance of this thing was fine. I appreciate call, Mandy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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