{"id":229626,"date":"2017-04-14T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=229626"},"modified":"2017-04-17T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:29:15","slug":"new-york-times-tries-and-fails-to-find-many-trump-supporters-upset-over-supposed-flip-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/14\/new-york-times-tries-and-fails-to-find-many-trump-supporters-upset-over-supposed-flip-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Bases Story on Our Thursday Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s a New York Times story. And, folks, it actually was written following what happened on this program yesterday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember, I opened the program asking a number of you Trump supporters if you\u2019re starting to feel betrayed over Trump flip-flopping, apparently, on the Export-Import Bank and what you think he said about not intervening militarily in other countries like Syria and the ChiComs and currency manipulation.<\/p>\n

The New York Times obviously was listening, because they based a story around the whole premise. And the headline: “Focused on Trump\u2019s Successes, Many Supporters Are Unfazed by His Reversals<\/a> — As some on the right howled about a series of reversals by President Trump on a number of his campaign promises … Rush Limbaugh asked his listeners on Thursday whether any of that flip-flopping really mattered.”<\/p>\n

\"\"And they quote me accurately here as saying: “‘See what Jeff Sessions is doing?\u2019 Mr. Limbaugh said of the attorney general, answering his own question: ‘Damn straight.\u2019 ‘Have you seen what the job situation is?\u2019 he asked. ‘Have you seen what the economic forecasts in the future are?\u2019 he went on. The sentiment that Mr. Limbaugh was homing in on — the undented confidence that many Trump supporters have in the president as a get-things-done leader and deal maker — is the reason many conservatives say they do not think Mr. Trump will suffer.”<\/p>\n

This story reeks with disappointment. The New York Times went out and sought Trump supporters who were angry and seething and ready to throw him overboard already, on the basis that he had lied to them or had misled them by saying what they wanted to hear during the campaign, and in less than a hundred days, reversing himself.<\/p>\n

You know, some people are even talking about this giant missile that we dropped on ISIS yesterday. And wait \u2019til you hear the typical liberal reaction to that. It\u2019s coming up. And the media has gone out of its way to try to find people angry over Trump doing this, people that voted for Trump.<\/p>\n

If you go back, and I\u2019m sure I don\u2019t even have to remind many of you of this, you Trump supporters, defeating ISIS was one of the top 10 often repeated campaign promises that Trump made. And I wouldn\u2019t even call it a campaign promise; it was an assurance. He said within 30 days he\u2019s gonna ask his military people to come up with a great plan, the greatest plan that there\u2019s ever been, the greatest plan ever, to take out ISIS.<\/p>\n

Well, apparently that plan was sought, and apparently that plan has been presented, and now they\u2019re acting on it. This, at least, is an instance where Trump is doing everything he promised he would do. The only thing that he didn\u2019t say is when he would do it. And that, of course, is strategic. He doesn\u2019t believe the enemy should be informed in advance of when we\u2019re gonna hit them. Think it\u2019s very stupid and dumb to do it like Obama did.<\/p>\n

In fact, you gotta love Trump. He even said of his giant bomb that was deployed yesterday on that ISIS tunnel, he\u2019s out there saying, “This shows the biggest difference between me and Obama in the last eight years.” (laughing) And he\u2019s exactly right. You don\u2019t have presidents talking that way very much. Grab sound bite number one. We can squeeze part of this in before the break.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: We are so proud of our military, and it was another successful event.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Did you authorize it, sir?<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Everybody knows exactly what happened, so — and what I do is I authorize my military. We have the greatest military in the world, and they\u2019ve done a job as usual. So we have given them total authorization, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. And, frankly, that\u2019s why they\u2019ve been so successful lately. If you look at what\u2019s happened over the last eight weeks and compare that to what — really to what\u2019s happened over him the last eight years, you\u2019ll see there\u2019s a tremendous difference, tremendous difference.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Big difference between me and Obama. But the point he\u2019s making, they asked, “Did you order the bomb dropped?” And Trump wouldn\u2019t say he did. He said I got confidence in my generals.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: A.J. in Denver, as we head back to the phones. A.J. in Denver, great to have you. How are you doing, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I\u2019m doing good. I want to first thank you, and I appreciate you talking about The True Jesus book that your brother wrote, and I\u2019m gonna buy that book.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. I really think you\u2019ll thoroughly enjoy it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sure I will.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Regardless what your educational level is about Christianity and Christ, even if you\u2019re a scholar of Christianity, this book is going to highly impress you, guarantee it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m looking forward to it. The reason I called was because, as a member of the Trump base, President Trump, they don\u2019t understand him and they don\u2019t understand his base. The pundits ask questions, “Well, what do you think about the flip-flopping?” They don\u2019t understand that he\u2019s a businessman, you adjust to the market, you adjust to the situation, and you get things done, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s doing. And the Democrats lost because they didn\u2019t understand this, and the Republicans would have lost also. And so they don\u2019t understand this man, they don\u2019t understand the base, and it\u2019s so interesting —<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: You know what it\u2019s really rooted in, A.J.? It\u2019s rooted in the fact that they still don\u2019t understand why such a large number of Americans voted purposely for a nonpolitical outsider.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They continue to remember to factor that into everything. They cannot help it. They continue to try to plug Trump in to an existing political profile that they have established in Washington and judge him that way. In politics there are flip-flops, exactly right. In business, there are adjustments, as you\u2019ve just said.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. And the two universal laws that Trump is using is the law of diminishing returns and the law of nothing changes, nothing changes. And so for so long, nothing has changed. And we\u2019re looking for change, and we\u2019re looking for the use of diminishing return. That\u2019s why they dropped the two bombs, because we got everybody\u2019s attention now, and they understand that they have something to lose, and everything from the wall on, he\u2019s just changing things. The whole paradigm has changed in politics, and they don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you this, A.J. What they\u2019re trying to make Trump base voters believe by virtue of the reporting in the media, they want you to believe that Trump\u2019s abandoned you, that he\u2019s no longer America first, “Make America Great Again.” Do you think that in all these things that Trump is doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely not. He\u2019s doing exactly what we expect him to do. He\u2019s doing exactly what he said he\u2019s going to do. The number one thing that was important to me, or the top three, was the Supreme Court justice appointment, that is huge, major. And he got that done, and he\u2019s doing other things. If the rest of the impotent Republicans would get behind him, we have the opportunity to destroy the Democratic Party with extreme prejudice, if they just put on their big boy pants.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: You know, that begs the question of is that what some Republicans really want to do. And I\u2019m not just saying that. I actually — and it\u2019s come as a surprise — when I started this program back in 1988, I thought that the objective in politics was to not just win, but to dominate so that the other side was nothing more than a little speck of opposition, keep you honest and this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

It actually took a while for me to figure out that the Republican Party didn\u2019t think that way at all. They didn\u2019t think aggressive. They didn\u2019t think in terms of defeating and dominating and taking control of Washington with a reform agenda. I labored under that belief for the longest time. I forget when it actually hit me, but it was, you know, 10 years, at least, into doing the program.<\/p>\n

And then it got even worse than that. Then it became apparent that survival was the objective and that even if they lost, that they had developed strategies to be the opposition and to be reactionary. And for some people, that was preferable to the pressure and the responsibility of actually having to lead and move an agenda. And I think this is another reason why people are having — I don\u2019t even think they\u2019re having trouble. It\u2019s not right.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even think people are even making an effort to understand Trump. I think inside the Beltway, and not just Republicans. I\u2019m thinking primarily of Democrats and media here. I think they\u2019re so arrogant that they don\u2019t look at Trump as anything other than a badly molded piece of clay that has to be fixed and reshaped and reformed. And there isn\u2019t any interest whatsoever in actually finding out what the guy is or what makes him tick. The only objective is to shut him down as he ticks now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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