{"id":230361,"date":"2017-04-20T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=230361"},"modified":"2017-04-21T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T20:28:44","slug":"trumps-armada-feint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/20\/trumps-armada-feint\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Armada Feint"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We talked about this yesterday, we mentioned it yesterday, this story about Trump saying that a giant armada was on its way to the Korean peninsula, and it wasn\u2019t, and the Drive-Bys and the Democrats are just going bonkers. They think, “Oh, my God, this Trump guy is really, really dangerous! He doesn\u2019t even know where his own Navy is. He\u2019s out there saying the Navy\u2019s headed for the North Koreans, and it\u2019s not? My God, this is horrible!” We\u2019ve got Begala, The Forehead, on CNN saying, “Gee, I really hope the guy succeeds, but this is unacceptable. We cannot have somebody who is this ignorant and doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on.”<\/p>\n

\"\"As I discussed yesterday, I don\u2019t think that this is ignorant. I just think these people don\u2019t understand Trump. And I\u2019m gonna repeat the story that I mentioned yesterday. During one of the presidential debates, it was one that was hosted by Martha Raddatz at ABC News, and Martha Raddatz fashions herself as a foreign policy expert because she\u2019s — I don\u2019t know — the Pentagon correspondent, state department correspondent. I don\u2019t know what. She\u2019s an “expert.” And, by the way, the media and Democrats in government, they\u2019re interchangeable.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same thing. I mean, it\u2019s not as though Martha Raddatz is outside. She\u2019s inside. She\u2019s an insider with these people that she covers. So Trump, during the debate, is really ripping into Obama and Hillary for telegraphing when they would do things, like when they would attack ISIS. If they were gonna mount any kind of an invasion or military attack somewhere, they would give advance notice of it. Trump said, “This is stupid. This is an example of the dumb leadership we\u2019ve got. There\u2019s no way anybody ought to announce to the enemy when we\u2019re coming.<\/p>\n

“I will never do it. I will never tell you. I\u2019m not gonna tell you when we\u2019re gonna attack. I\u2019m not gonna tell you when we\u2019re not gonna attack.” Martha Raddatz practically lost it because she showed up already hating Trump and already not believing she had to even treat Trump with respect. She can\u2019t believe he\u2019s even got a chance of being elected president or he\u2019s the nominee. She can\u2019t believe any of this, and she literally loses it. And she starts telling him (impression), “What about psychological warfare? Do you know nothing?<\/p>\n

“Do you not…? It could be psychological warfare, psychological ops? It could well be that we\u2019re lying to them when we tell them we\u2019re coming!” And Trump, unfazed, stayed on point and it\u2019s the stupidest thing in the world and he would never do it and he would never tell her or anybody else in the media. We\u2019re dealing with a bunch of lunatics in North Korea led by the premier lunatic. So Trump goes on TV and says, “Our great armada…” (chuckling) Who uses that word anymore? “…is on its way steaming to the North Korean coast.”<\/p>\n

This put everybody off kilter. It… It just discombobulated everybody. The Norks didn\u2019t know what was going on. And the end result of this is that it\u2019s on the way now and it is going to get close. It wasn\u2019t when Trump said it was. But I think that it\u2019s entirely possible that it was a great feint — f-e-i-n-t, something to keep these people off guard. I mean, they\u2019re madmen. You don\u2019t deal with them rationally. They respond to threats, as has been demonstrated. And if they begin to question what they are being told by…<\/p>\n

This guy\u2019s being told by his own advisers or whatever. I think it\u2019s entirely different from the way any other president in our lifetimes has operated in matters like this, and I think that\u2019s why the establishment goes so bonkers \u2019cause it\u2019s just violating all the so-called civilized norms. You don\u2019t lie about troop movements. You don\u2019t tell people your armada is somewhere when it isn\u2019t. And, therefore, Trump must be stupid and ignorant and think it\u2019s there — or worse, they said, Trump ordered it, but the military people lied to Trump and told him they were gonna send the armada, but they really didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s kind of the story they want to stick with, that the military people are scared to death Trump. “Oh, my God.” But he\u2019s the president! So what are they gonna do? So Trump orders the armada to North Korea, but the military brass know it\u2019s a dumb idea so they don\u2019t order the armada, and tell Trump that it\u2019s steaming on its way \u2019cause they think Trump doesn\u2019t have the ability to go get a satellite view and find out how close it\u2019s getting. Now, this has happened, by the way. Back during the Nixon administration, President Nixon one night had consumed (sigh) a bit too much adult beverage and ordered an attack on Damascus.<\/p>\n

(That\u2019s in Syria, for those of you in Rio Linda.)<\/p>\n

The advisers to Nixon late that night had to tell him that the attack sequence was underway when, of course, it wasn\u2019t. I have this on good authority, but that was a protective measure. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s been written publicly about or not, but don\u2019t doubt me on that. That did happen. But this is just part and parcel of media doing what they can to make as many people think that Donald Trump is mentally unstable, deranged, and not all there and poses a great threat. And it\u2019s all oriented toward that day in the future where they desperately want to begin impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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