{"id":230168,"date":"2017-04-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=230168"},"modified":"2017-04-19T18:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T22:58:24","slug":"gronk-crashes-spicer-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/19\/gronk-crashes-spicer-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Welcomes Happy Patriots, Media Seethes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: As you know the New England Patriots are visiting the White House today to be honored for their Super Bowl victory. And, in addition to the six Patriots that said they weren\u2019t gonna show up \u2019cause they\u2019re protesting, a seventh player announced that he was not attending today. And that\u2019d be quarterback Tom Brady, number 12, said that he had pressing family issues and could not make the trip, presumably his mother who is ill.<\/p>\n<p>I have a different theory, but once again I\u2019m too famous to actually share it with you. Well, it is kind of limiting \u2019cause I get myself in trouble when I tell you what\u2019s really going on, \u2019cause I can\u2019t keep it between you and me. Everybody hears it, including the people I\u2019m talking about, and then they get mad at me, deny it, when I know it\u2019s not &#8212; but he\u2019s not there. But Rob Gronkowski was, number 87, the star tight end for the Patriots. And during Sean Spicer\u2019s press briefing there was an interruption.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C987nrZ3dj8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Can I just &#8212; (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>GRONKOWSKI: You need some help? (laughter)<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Uh, I think I got this, but thank you.<\/p>\n<p>GRONKOWSKI: Are you sure?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Uh, maybe.<\/p>\n<p>GRONKOWSKI: We\u2019re all back here.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: All right, thanks, man, I\u2019ll see you in a minute. (laughter) Hold on one second. (laughter) All right. That was cool. Real quick, how do you follow that?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-230212 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wh9_1492621190302_9256261_ver1_0-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wh9_1492621190302_9256261_ver1_0-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wh9_1492621190302_9256261_ver1_0-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wh9_1492621190302_9256261_ver1_0.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>RUSH: Everybody knows that Spicer is embattled as the press secretary. Gronkowski, the pressroom is in the West Wing, it\u2019s not far from the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room. And so Gronkowski pokes his head out the doorway and said to Spicer, &#8220;Hey, you need some help?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, no, I got this. Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You sure? &#8216;Cause we\u2019re all back here if you need us.&#8221; Everybody started laughing and so forth. What\u2019s good about this is that here\u2019s Gronkowski, everybody loves him, star tight end, and he actually appeared to like Spicer and loves Trump, media hates that. That\u2019s not good. It will tick \u2019em off the rest of the day now.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, the New England Patriots just wrapped their outside appearance at the White House. They\u2019ve been there five times, as you know, and Bill Belichick, the head coach, actually said of all the five times, this may be the sweetest. And that just irritates the media, because they think it\u2019s \u2019cause Trump\u2019s there and then the Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, with a similar statement. He\u2019s a friend of Trump\u2019s. And the media doesn\u2019t like that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-230238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Belichick-Trump.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Belichick-Trump.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Belichick-Trump-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>This is the Super Bowl championship from Boston, for crying out loud, they all should have canceled is what the media thinks. And now with Belichick, who never gives the media the time of day acting really happy, they never see Belichick happy. Belichick never looks like he\u2019s enjoying anything except immediately after a Super Bowl win. Regular season win, nothing, doesn\u2019t count \u2019til we get to the Super Bowl. But after a Super Bowl win, he\u2019s happy.<\/p>\n<p>Today he was happy. He made presentations of a jersey to Trump and a helmet to Trump, and media was just &#8212; don\u2019t doubt me on this &#8212; seething. They were hoping one player, just one player would stand up and make some kind of protest out of this.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you, I\u2019ll make you a prediction? I will predict to you that somebody in the media is going to observe the Patriots\u2019 facial expressions, some of the players\u2019 facial expressions and will write stories on how the team was under oppressed pressure to show up. You could tell by looking that many were not happy, many were exhibiting signs of boredom and sheer disgust with where they had to be. It was clear to us analysts in the media looking at the Patriots standing behind Coach Belichick and Trump that many wished they could be anywhere but where they were.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UCHebcbXFQk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You watch. We\u2019re gonna see stuff like this. It won\u2019t be long. And Brady not showing up, he has a long statement, family matters, family issues, but he\u2019s very happy to be a member of the team, great championship, already focused on winning the next one and so forth. I\u2019m not surprised. That\u2019s all I\u2019ll say. I just can\u2019t go further, folks. In some ways I\u2019m shackled here in ways that I\u2019m starting to resent, but it\u2019s just the way it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Belichick, who never gives the media the time of day acting really happy, they never see Belichick happy. 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