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RUSH: Yeah, I heard you. I heard a click in there, too, but I patiently hung in because I have experience with faulty phone lines.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m calling on a dinosaur iPhone 4, I\u2019m sorry to report. Hey, even if Trump gets nothing done during this first term, just watching the left run around bat crazy is worth the price of admission, Rush, it really is.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Partly, yeah. The problem is that these people — I know they\u2019re funny. I mean, when they\u2019re out of power they\u2019re really funny. But they\u2019re really, really desperate, unlike anything in the 30 years of my empowerment here. And so they\u2019re desperate. This is momentous. This is the one shot we\u2019ve got to restore this country to the founding ideals.<\/p>\n
The left wants to transform this country away from those, and this is it. And they know it. And they\u2019re doing everything they can to stop it and to shut it down, and they\u2019ve got the media helping them and so forth, but you\u2019re right. I think one of the ways of exposing \u2019em is to ridicule \u2019em. I mean, laughter is the simplest way to humiliate somebody. Laugh at them, it shrinks them. So I think you have a point there.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, and you\u2019re the best at it, Rush. The way that your show is put together, it helps us all laugh at them and not take it seriously. I was watching those media roundup shows, Fox has one with Howie Kurtz and then there\u2019s one on CNN, and it\u2019s amazing what they see as opposed to what we see or what you see.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hold your thought there. I gotta take a break. Hold your thought on your iPhone 4. It\u2019s amazing. They all see the same thing, too.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here we are back to Ray in Livermore, California. You wanted to finish your point on these media navel-gazing shows that you\u2019re watching. What was your point about \u2019em?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, that they\u2019re completely out of touch, Rush. I actually called about Milo and the destruction of Milo. We\u2019re being lied to. You know, the Republicans have been told over and over they have to moderate their message to be seen positively by The Sacred Moderate. We\u2019ve got to make sure that we don\u2019t upset The Sacred Moderate. And now I think that\u2019s been replaced with The Sacred Millennial. And Milo, the left wants to make him the face of the Republican Party as he\u2019s being destroyed. The Republicans have turned their backs on him at CPAC and now the left sees blood in the water and they want to say —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, wait, now. Hold your thought there. Just a second. And, by the way, I like iPhone 4 because I can actually talk to you on it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: You can actually hear me when you\u2019re talking. Most callers cannot hear me when they\u2019re talking, but your iPhone 4 is working just fine in that regard.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Very good.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So, at any rate… Look, you\u2019re right, except the Democrats did not schedule Milo for CPAC. CPAC did. So when you say, “The Democrats want to position Milo as the face of the conservative movement,” well, they had a little help if they\u2019ve been they\u2019re trying to do. I\u2019m sorry, folks. I\u2019m not being critical here, but that\u2019s what happens. CPAC has since canceled the appearance, but look… I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just… I\u2019m getting into tiptoe territory again here in trying to explain what\u2019s really going on here. I\u2019ve gotta be very, very gentle. I\u2019ll let you finish your thought but I just wanted to interrupt there. That\u2019s me being Chris Wallace with you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckling) Very good. You\u2019re correct, the Republicans did invite him and then they disinvited him, and, see, now the left can jump on that as it\u2019s blood on the water, you know, that they can take that and run with it and show that Republicans don\u2019t represent the Millennial —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, there I think you\u2019re on to something. I do think that the left is trying to impugn and besmirch conservatives in the eyes of Millennials. There\u2019s no question about that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: They are grasping at straws, when you look at the different things that they\u2019re jumping on and trying to make an issue out. Rush, there\u2019s a great scene in the movie Mars Attacks when the president is —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: (laughing) Wait a minute. Mars Attacks? You mean these little guys running around in glass helmets and Jack Nicholson\u2019s the president?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: And they convinced the president he needs to use atomic weapons against the Martian ship that is just above the earth, in outer space. Now I look at the president as the media; you look at the general as the establishment; and the Martian is Trump.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: And when they send this atomic bomb up to kill the Martian — who is Trump — he sends out this little, tiny spaceship, and it completely absorbs the shock of the atomic weapon, and then the little spaceship comes back and it docks, and all of the Martians use it like it\u2019s some sort of Millennial smoking device like a vape device and they all take a big hit off of it, and they laugh. And I think that\u2019s what Trump is doing to the American media. They\u2019re exploding atomic bombs around him and he\u2019s just absorbing it. He\u2019s just inhaling it and then blowing out a little bit of water vapor, and this Milo thing is just an extension of that. They think they\u2019re gonna take this and blow up the Republican Party with and say, “See, see, see?” And it\u2019s just it is not working with this guy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know what the best evidence of this is? I think this… Your analogy notwithstanding, I think it\u2019s actually a very, very shrewd observation of yours. If you go back to June 15th of 2015 when the Trumpster descended the escalators and made his announcement, what was the reaction? They laughed themselves silly. They said, “The guy\u2019s not even serious! He doesn\u2019t have a prayer now after what he said about Mexicans and immigration,” and they thought that he wouldn\u2019t be in it for two weeks, that people would reject him. And they could not believe when Trump was number one in the polls inside of three weeks of his announcement.<\/p>\n
And then they kept waiting for Trump to implode. They thought, “This has to happen,” because the formula is no politician can survive any of what Trump was doing without losing. I mean, the media doesn\u2019t need to do anything. Nobody needs to do anything. Trump\u2019s gonna implode. He kept growing, he kept getting stronger, he kept growing his support. So then they said, “You know what? He\u2019s not gonna implode!” Then she started trying to destroy him. They threw everything they had. They threw the Access Hollywood video. They threw everything.<\/p>\n
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They threw Russians, they threw Putin, they threw everything. And he ends up being elected, defying everyone! They haven\u2019t been able to take him out, and yet what do they continue to do? Everything that has failed. It almost is as though they are the Keystone Cops. They continue to try expanded and more intense versions of things they\u2019ve already failed at doing in the effort to take Trump out. No this changes a little bit once he becomes president and the focus of the attacks changes. The big deal difference in being a candidate and the actual president \u2019cause now, you know, candidates don\u2019t have any power; a president does.<\/p>\n
But still, the argument holds. Nothing they\u2019re doing is working. This is my point. The media can\u2019t take him out because they didn\u2019t make him. And this is why they\u2019re having conniptions over that statement of mine. They still are. And they\u2019re admitting by virtue of having the conniptions that they\u2019re trying to take him out. Why else be mad about it? “Well, we\u2019re not trying to take him out.” Well, what the hell else are you trying to do, then? The point is they haven\u2019t figured out it out, and your point about Trump… What do you think Trump\u2019s state of mind is in all this, Ray?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think he\u2019s… Like you, Rush, I think he\u2019s enjoying it. He\u2019s basking in it, okay? Just like the Martians inhaled the atomic blast, he\u2019s inhaling it and blowing out water vapor. He\u2019s loving it. And what you said earlier, Rush, is spot on. I was a Cruz guy, and I don\u2019t think Cruz would… I love Cruz, and he\u2019s a tough guy, but I don\u2019t think he would be holding up as good as Trump. Kasich would have been blown over like a wet cardboard box in the rain. Jeb? They would have gave him a little grace period, but they would have gone after him just as tough as they\u2019re going after Trump. No Republican would be able to survive what\u2019s happening right now except this guy. It\u2019s an amazing thing to watch. It really is.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s another shrewd observation, and that fact is irritating all of the critics and those trying to destroy him even more. Now, Trump\u2019s state of mind, I will tell you what I think it is. Let me first tell you what I think the left and the media hope it is. They hope Trump is doing a Nixon in the White House. They wish he\u2019s in the corner with an adult beverage at night talking to himself because of all the misery and all the hatred. They think he desperately wants to be loved and he\u2019s figuring out that he\u2019s hated.<\/p>\n
This is not what he wanted, and he\u2019s getting dangerously, mentally unbalanced.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s what they think Trump\u2019s state of mind is it, and that\u2019s what they hope to create in his state of mind, with these never ending, incessant attacks. But that is so far from the truth. You say Trump is reveling in it and enjoying it. I think Trump was fully aware that this was going to happen. What they don\u2019t get about Trump is that he ran for specific, committed purposes — and now that he\u2019s won, he\u2019s doing them. He\u2019s going about implementing them. Now, all of the caterwauling about, “Where\u2019s the tax cuts and where\u2019s the Obamacare repeal?” It\u2019s coming. He\u2019s not… I don\u2019t think Trump has been taken off his track. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s been distracted.<\/p>\n
I think there\u2019s a learning curve here. Nobody can actually know what this job\u2019s gonna be \u2019til you get in it and start doing it, and I don\u2019t know that he was readily prepared for having an entire embedded bureaucracy trying to undermine him. But he\u2019s gonna be able to deal with it because he\u2019s faced these kinds of things in his life before. And I think that he is so committed to what he thinks will make this country great, so committed to the things he believes will reverse the fortunes of this country, no way is he going to be rendered depressed and despondent and give up the agenda. He\u2019s tougher than that. He\u2019s certainly more committed than that.<\/p>\n
And I just don\u2019t think, as I have maintained from the get-go, that the Washington establishment still knows who they\u2019re dealing with, because they continue to treat him as though he\u2019s your average, ordinary, everyday elected Republican politician. There is a blueprint for taking those people out, and it\u2019s always worked.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I called your show years ago and you were taking a lot of heat from the media, and I think Trump may have even heard this message that I told you. An old bomber pilot instructed me a long time ago: If you\u2019re taking a lot of flak, it usually means you\u2019re above the target. Open the bomb bay doors. And that\u2019s exactly what Trump is doing.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) When you\u2019re over the target, drop — Here\u2019s another one. I love this. When you think you\u2019re going through hell, keep going. The only way out, keep going. If you\u2019re going through hell you\u2019ve got to keep going. You can\u2019t stop or that\u2019s where you\u2019re gonna end up. Anyway, I appreciate the call out there, Ray, I really do.<\/p>\n
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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus<\/p><\/div>\n
Ray, you made a big deal here about having an antiquated, worthless iPhone 4. Do you want a replacement? I don\u2019t have very many left, you know, I\u2019ve given away over 130 of these, but I think I\u2019ve got some back there. I know I\u2019ve got plenty of iPhone 7s, but you probably want an iPhone 7 Plus, I\u2019m guessing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, you are generous and gracious, and this is part of what makes you the best guy on radio. I\u2019m telling you, Rush. You really are the best guy on radio.<\/p>\n
RUSH: See how easy it is when you\u2019re Santa Claus, folks? Everybody loves you. That\u2019s how the Democrats do it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no, no, that\u2019s how the Democrats do it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: If you got a 7S, Rush, I would wonderfully take it. And an autograph on the way out, that would be even better.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. The 7S hasn\u2019t come out yet. The 7S will come out with the 8 in September.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That would be the big screen one. You got the regular screen and the big screen, right?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah, so you want the 7 Plus. So what is your carrier?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: AT&T.<\/p>\n
RUSH: AT&T. Okay. I\u2019m not even gonna ask you color choice because I can\u2019t sit here and tell you for sure that I\u2019ve got your color choice. But I think I\u2019ve got a jet black back there and maybe either a gold or a silver in a 7 Plus and that\u2019s probably gonna be a world phone unlocked. It may, when you open it, may have a Verizon SIM card in it, but it doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s unlocked. Your iPhone 4 SIM card will not fit so what you\u2019re gonna have to do is this. You have to take your current phone and this new phone and the box to AT&T and tell \u2019em the new phone\u2019s a gift and you want to move your number from the 4 to the 7 Plus, \u2019cause you can\u2019t swap SIMs. And you tell them that the phone is unlocked and will work on any carrier in the world. And if you have to, tell \u2019em I said so. You run a risk of doing that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing).<\/p>\n
RUSH: But, anyway, hang on \u2019til we get your address and you\u2019ll have it tomorrow. Do you know how to get the data that\u2019s on your iPhone 4 onto a new phone? Do you know how to do that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir. Yes, I do.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. You do that with iTunes. You know, you do an encrypted backup of your current phone on iTunes, and you get your new phone, get the new number put on, take the new phone, connect it to iTunes, restore from that backup, and you are up and running.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
So the Drive-Bys, folks, and the people in the deep state, the Obama shadow government types that are trying to undermine Trump, I think they probably figure they can\u2019t take him down by insulting him. They can\u2019t turn him into a quivering mass of paranoia like Nixon. So what they\u2019ve turned to now is he\u2019s mentally unstable. He\u2019s perhaps in the early stages of dementia.<\/p>\n
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The New Republic actually had a story, I mentioned this yesterday. The New Republic has a story Trump is exhibiting signs of people who have had syphilis in their formative years. Yes. Now, the shrink says, “Admittedly I can\u2019t say for sure, I\u2019ve not diagnosed Trump, but I\u2019m looking at all the outward telltale signs, and it sure does appear to me.” And of course now they can try to replace him as mentally unstable or sick or what have around the 25th Amendment. They\u2019re thinking about it. I\u2019ll get to all that in the monolog of the next hour.<\/p>\n
Ivanka Trump\u2019s perfume. Have you seen this? You know that Nordstrom canceled Ivanka\u2019s product line because — I know what happened. I know what happened. Political pressure. And Kellyanne Conway got in some trouble \u2019cause she went out there and is accused of doing a commercial for Ivanka stuff with the White House logo in the background. It\u2019s not cool. Government people are not supposed to endorse products and so forth.<\/p>\n
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This is what the guy was talking about, Mars Attacks. They keep attacking, and they keep attacking. Trump just absorbs it and everything they do backfires. In Mars Attacks I remember Jack Nicholson being advised by somebody, “Make peace with these little people. Make peace.” So they arranged a meeting with the Martian leader, who comes in and just murders everybody after an impassioned speech about how we\u2019re all the same. The Martians look at each other like this guy\u2019s nuts and they zap him. It\u2019s one of my all-time favorite movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"