{"id":228407,"date":"2017-04-06T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=228407"},"modified":"2017-04-06T17:51:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:51:35","slug":"nobody-goes-through-a-doorway-before-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/06\/nobody-goes-through-a-doorway-before-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The President and Doorway Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So President Trump and the first lady, Melania, just boarded Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews en route to where we live to screw things up for about three or four days. I say that affectionately and jokingly. But I got an email from somebody. “Rush, I just saw the president do the rudest thing. It\u2019s raining, and he got on board the plane before Melania. How rude is that?” You know, that\u2019s an excellent question, and let me tell you why it happened. In official Washington protocol, no one goes through a doorway before the president. No one.<\/p>\n

\"\"The president always goes through a doorway first. Everybody is to make way for the president. This is pre-Trump. The president, if he wants, can defer and let somebody go, but he\u2019s not supposed to. The president is to always be first through a doorway, moving to a new room or entering a room. It\u2019s all about the appearance of power and protocol. I imagine many of you are now running to Google to try to prove me wrong on this, but don\u2019t doubt me. So the president was not being rude on entering Air Force One prior to the first lady.<\/p>\n

Since that happens in public, he obviously decided to follow protocol and enter the airplane first. It is not about chivalry. It\u2019s not about potential danger on the other side of the doorway. It\u2019s all about the appearance of respect and power and things of this nature. And I\u2019m sure that the vast majority of people don\u2019t know it. And I\u2019m sure that many of you now are doubting me, but I warn you not to. He was not being rude, is the bottom line. He doesn\u2019t hate women. Another email: “See? This proves it! No respect for women. He\u2019s a pig. He\u2019s a misogynist.”<\/p>\n

Now, normally I wouldn\u2019t even answer those emails, but in this case I felt the need to do so.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the meantime, Spokane, Washington. Chris, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I want to comment on the protocol story you did. Now, I have to admit that I missed the first part of the story. So I\u2019m not sure what happens inside a building from room to room. But getting on an airplane or getting into a car, the highest ranking person is the last one to get in and the first one to get out. I\u2019m Air Force retired. So I had to deal with it.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Okay. You are making a distinction. Here\u2019s what happened. The president and the first lady boarded Air Force One. It\u2019s raining cats and dogs, by the way, and they had to get on with umbrellas. They didn\u2019t park the airplane in a hangar and let people board dry. So they had to board in the rain with umbrellas. The president boarded first, and after he was safely inside, the first lady then ascended the steps. I then got emails from people pointing out that shows what a rude pig Trump is, that he doesn\u2019t even respect his wife enough to let her — in the rain — board the plane before he did. And it proves that Trump is a misogynist and is focused only on himself. And it was that that I was reacting to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I said that there is a protocol that when the president enters a room or goes through a doorway, he is always first. You\u2019re saying in the Air Force it\u2019s not true?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. Whenever we carry generals or senators or anybody, the highest ranking person was the last one to get on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is that also true if you carried the president?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, no, I didn\u2019t deal with the president. But if there\u2019s a general and a president, the president gets off the plane first. If there\u2019s a general and a sergeant, the general gets off the plane first.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s true. The president always… Well, of those in the front compartment. The media and the people in the back get off at the back of the plane. Nobody sees that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But down the primary stairway, the primary doorway, the president is off the plane first. You\u2019re absolutely right about that. It was Trump who told me this, folks. So that\u2019s my source for this is Trump. Which I know many of you are gonna say, “See, Trump\u2019s stupid! He doesn\u2019t know anything.” Some of you leftists are out there. But that\u2019s my source for this, and he said he was very surprised to learn it. He learned it in the White House. He was standing aside to let women enter rooms and he was taken aside by a protocol expert who said, “Mr. President, you\u2019re supposed to enter first. The president always goes through a doorway first.” He said he still feels uncomfortable with it, but he does it because that\u2019s what\u2019s required.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s my source.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: President Trump, I assume, is now airborne en route to Palm Beach Florida and the winter White House known as Mar-a-Lago, and I think the ChiCom leader Xi Jinping is already here. He\u2019s staying down at a resort (ahem), a resort in Lantana, or is it Manalapan? (interruption) it\u2019s Manalapan. Manalapan is the area just south of Palm Beach. Palm Beach is an island, and during the season it\u2019s 40-some-odd-thousand people who reside here. After Easter — I mean, the day after Easter — one half of that number will leave. (chuckling)<\/p>\n

\"\"Twenty thousand. That day, they\u2019re gone. You know why? That\u2019s just the way it\u2019s always been done. If Easter\u2019s March the 14th, they leave March 15th. If Easter\u2019s April 16th, they leave April 17th. These are the blue-bloods. These are the people inherited their money and don\u2019t know why they do what they do other than it\u2019s always been done that way. They clear outta here, and the place becomes much less congested.<\/p>\n

And I now… Mar-a-Lago itself closes for the summer, usually from mid-May all the way through October. But I don\u2019t know what\u2019s… Trump\u2019s got other places to go in the summertime when he wants to leave the White House. He hasn\u2019t got Mar-a-Lagos anywhere else but he\u2019s got numerous golf clubs and places that he can go. So the times that he will be coming here on weekends and vacations is drawing through close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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