{"id":223023,"date":"2017-02-23T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=223023"},"modified":"2017-02-24T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:42:52","slug":"trump-is-about-blowing-up-washington-as-it-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/23\/trump-is-about-blowing-up-washington-as-it-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is About Blowing Up Washington as It Exists"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I think it\u2019s important to keep in mind something that\u2019s — and, by the way, I am not assuming the role of apologist here. I don\u2019t want anybody mischaracterizing what I\u2019m doing here with what I\u2019m going to say next. I think what we should all try and remember is that Trump is about blowing up Washington as it exists. He\u2019s about upsetting the way it\u2019s always been done, including timelines, including the order in which things are done, and even how.<\/p>\n

I think one of the reasons that Trump won the election is precisely because he represented everything but what happens in Washington and how it happens. He was sent there — and make no mistake about this. He was sent there with an agenda, with a mandate to go to Washington as an outsider and blow it up, clean it up, straighten it up, however you want to characterize it. And I was just… During the top-of-the-hour break, I was watching a little bit of Priebus and Bannon. By the way, Priebus is still alive there on the stage at CPAC. (chuckling)<\/p>\n

And Bannon. You know, Matt Schlapp was asking him questions. “What are the three most noteworthy things you think Trump has done?” Bannon\u2019s third thing that he mentioned was that we are going to destroy the administrative state, meaning the deep state, meaning this unelected bureaucracy that just churns out regulations and rules. They\u2019re not elected. None of what they do is sanctioned by statutory law. They just issue regulations on how can you can live your life with your backyard if it\u2019s environmental, or they issue regulations on things you have to do if you want to start a business.<\/p>\n

These things are never passed in Congress. He said that one of the primary objectives we\u2019ve got — in addition to reestablishing our national sovereignty and restoring America\u2019s economic might and so forth (he referred to it as “economic nationalism”) — is blowing up the administrative state. None of this can happen inside the first month. Well, not none of it. It all can\u2019t happen in the month. And in fact you can\u2019t even make your first move on all of it in one month. If you look at what\u2019s happening in Washington and say on Capitol Hill, you have the Democrats filibustering everything.<\/p>\n

Trump still does not have every cabinet member approved. It\u2019s gonna happen. They can\u2019t stop it forever. But they are doing what they can to stop Trump as best they can with the parliamentary rules that they\u2019ve got. And again, this is not apologizing or even excusing it. But I don\u2019t think Trump is operating on what you would call Washington time. And by that I mean we\u2019re talking tax cuts and we\u2019re comparing when Reagan got his done.<\/p>\n

Reagan\u2019s first wave of tax cuts were signed into law in August of his first year.<\/p>\n

\"\"And people are saying, “Well, if Trump doesn\u2019t get it done by then, it\u2019s over because then the next year comes and that becomes a campaign year, and we got people running for reelection, and they don\u2019t want to make voters mad.” I think Trump is not looking at the things in the standard, ordinary, everyday world of politics. That\u2019s what he\u2019s about, is blowing that up — and I mean this euphemistically. I don\u2019t doubt if Trump said that he\u2019s gonna have a tax cut plan, he\u2019s gonna have a tax cut plan and he\u2019s gonna announce it.<\/p>\n

And if he says he\u2019s gonna have a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, it\u2019s gonna happen, and he\u2019s gonna do it no matter what the Republicans in Congress are doing. He\u2019s going to get it, and he\u2019s not gonna defer to them. But he\u2019s gonna do it on his time. He\u2019s going to do it in combination with everything else that he\u2019s doing, and so far everything Trump said that he was gonna do, he\u2019s done. And it\u2019s been a remarkable amount of things that have taken place in just the first month.<\/p>\n

Do you think any other Republican would have rolled back these so-called regulations on transgender bathrooms? Do you think any other Republican would have actually said, “It\u2019s law and order again in America — and ICE and Border Patrol, enforce the law!” Do you think any other Republican president would have done that? (interruption) Okay, maybe Cruz. Maybe Cruz, true. But there\u2019s nobody on Capitol Hill that would have done it. My point is that there are amazing achievements that have already happened.<\/p>\n

And they continue to happen, and they\u2019re happening within an atmosphere of it appearing that everybody\u2019s opposed to Trump, and everybody isn\u2019t. The vast majority of people are still in favor of Trump, are applauding Trump, and eagerly awaiting Trump to do even more. But the media is creating this narrative, if you will, and this picture — this series of pictures, this overall image — that Trump is stalled, that everybody\u2019s opposing him, that his agenda is backlogged.<\/p>\n

And guess what?<\/p>\n

\"\"They are attributing this to all of the protesters that are out there. “Trump is being stopped by all these protests!” None of this is true. The media is lying. They\u2019re reporting things that aren\u2019t true. They\u2019re reporting circumstances, situations, and facts that are not true. And while all of that\u2019s happening, Trump just keeps chugging down the tracks, doing things that he said he was gonna do. And you can tell how successful he\u2019s being because the left and the media are still running around acting like they\u2019re in an unhinged panic.<\/p>\n

They want you to believe that Trump has been stalled and derailed, but they\u2019re not acting that way. They\u2019re not celebrating anything. They are continuing to present themselves and everybody else as this core opposition, and making it look like Trump can\u2019t get anything done. But he is. And I think this speech that he\u2019s got to a joint session of Congress next Tuesday holds a lot of potential. But the bottom line is this. Here\u2019s another thing that I think.<\/p>\n

This is the primary way that I think Donald Trump differs from virtually everybody else in politics. After studying this for as many years as I have, I am convinced — inalterably convinced — that the vast majority of Washington politicians are indeed prisoners to media. I think particularly on the Republican side the media has had the power to derail Republican agendas, stop Republican initiatives, and freeze Republican behavior.<\/p>\n

I have concluded that the media is the number one obstacle because of the success they have. The people in Washington, media is every bit as big a part of the establishment as anybody else is. Everybody in Washington (particularly politics), you want to be loved, you want to be liked, you want good press, and I think people tailor what they say and what they do in accordance with how they are reported on. There are exceptions to this, of course.<\/p>\n

And I think this is one of the ways that the Republicans have been stalled over so many years is simply with the onslaught of never-ending, blanket negative media coverage. And I don\u2019t think anything like that is gonna stop Donald Trump. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s intimidated by it. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s derailed by it. I don\u2019t think that he is in any way affected by it. He\u2019s going to do what he thinks needs to be done. Whether we agree with some of it or not, he\u2019s going to do it. And whatever the media\u2019s caterwauling about is not going to stop him.<\/p>\n

\"\"They have grown used to being able to do it. As I\u2019ve discussed all week, there\u2019s a blueprint for taking out Republican politicians. There\u2019s a playbook on it. There\u2019s a way you can do it, and the media succeeds more often than not. If they want to stop a Republican career dead in its tracks, they can do it. If they want to paralyze a Republican, if they want to derail a Republican agenda or agenda item, they have been able to do it over the years.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think any of this works on Trump, and I think this is one of the things really frustrating the media. Because when they\u2019re unable to control what happens in Washington, that\u2019s when they get panicked about their own lack of influence, and then they ratchet up the unhinged behavior, which is where we are right now. That\u2019s what we are essentially living and seeing now. But I don\u2019t think Trump is in any way like your…<\/p>\n

Now, we all know Trump, as a human, loves to be loved. And I think, you know, Trump probably thought and hoped there\u2019d be a little bit more national unity already by now than there is. But the fact that there isn\u2019t isn\u2019t gonna stop him. And I\u2019ll tell you this: I don\u2019t think Donald Trump is ever gonna blame himself, because he\u2019s not going to stop attempting to do what he was elected to do. He\u2019s not a politician. He doesn\u2019t live and die by the same techniques that politicians do.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t get up with the same mind-set of politicians. When we\u2019re studying politics and watching Washington — which is politics — it\u2019s hard to remember that Trump is not of that world. We assume that anybody entering it is going to become of that world and be sucked in by it and maybe even corrupted by it. But I think the thing to keep in mind with Trump is that\u2019s not what is happening and probably will not. He\u2019s just a different animal, a different ball of wax.<\/p>\n

\"\"And he\u2019s in his office at the White House or wherever he is, and he\u2019s plotting and calculating and strategizing and moving things forward. And outside that bubble is all the usual garbage that goes on in Washington that has in the past affected elected officials, been able to stop them, put the brakes on, what have you. Not with Trump. So there\u2019s no Trump timetable. So even if tax cuts don\u2019t happen by August… I\u2019m not saying that they don\u2019t want them to.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t think Trump\u2019s doing things by virtue of the timetable, per se. Sure he wants to do as much as he can as soon as he can, but he doesn\u2019t have a timetable that says, “Well, if I don\u2019t get it done by such-and-such a time, I have to give up on it and move to something else.” I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case. But we\u2019ll see. It won\u2019t be long before we find out all of this, whether any of my opining here is relevant or not. I think I\u2019m pretty much on the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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