RUSH: This is Bob in Coronado, California. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good. Thank you. Mr. Snerdley gave me permission to ask you two quick questions. One of them is regarding the GDP and other one is Marine Le Pen. Regarding the GDP number today that came in at 0.7%, the lowest first quarter in three years —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: — I\u2019ve been concerned that as Trump policies get initiated and may become successful, that… And this may be premature, but people may gently put their thumbs on the scales and tank the numbers somewhat so that the conclusion will be like, “Look, GDP actually went down. Trump\u2019s policies aren\u2019t working! We need to raise taxes, not lower taxes.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, let me help you with that one. In the first place… And I don\u2019t mean to be… Don\u2019t any of you out there get mad, be critical. I\u2019m telling you: Trump\u2019s policies haven\u2019t been implemented yet, folks. We still have Obamacare<\/a>. We still have not had any tax cuts. There hasn\u2019t been one serious, major Trump policy. The one thing that has happened is there has been a significant drop in illegal immigrants trying to get into the country even before the wall is built. Just the idea that we\u2019ve got a law-and-order president\u2019s enough to really dial it back.<\/p>\n You might also think that deep state embeds would jimmy the numbers and maybe downplay it. I\u2019m not necessarily sure of that. I think in this case, we\u2019re still in the Obama economy, folks. In all senses… (By the way, don\u2019t hang up on him. I\u2019ve got one more question to ask him; he\u2019s got one more to ask me.) We still have the reality that we still have Obamacare. There haven\u2019t been any tax cuts yet. There hasn\u2019t been any Trump legislation that\u2019s been signed into law. There\u2019s nothing of grand significance that\u2019s happened yet.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s hundred days have been filled with yeoman effort. He\u2019s done as much as he could do with executive orders in charting a new course or a new path. I think your concern is real. I think the Washington establishment does not want Trump to succeed at anything for the reasons I\u2019ve stated. “He\u2019s an outsider. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. We can\u2019t let some upstart come in here and do things that show immediate improvement in the nation\u2019s economy after we\u2019ve been telling people last 30 years, ‘This is it!<\/p>\n I think, in fact, that the trends are for greater employment. The trends right now are in line for economic revival, simply based on the hope that Trump succeeds. Look at Wall Street. Just on Trump\u2019s inauguration and on the promises he was making about Obamacare and tax cuts, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and NASDAQ just went through the roof. Now it\u2019s starting to slow down a bit because of a concern that some of it might not happen. What was your question about Marine Le Pen?<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay. Rush, I think what\u2019s gonna happen is, I predict she\u2019ll lose. And I think people are gonna say… I mean, I hope she doesn\u2019t lose. But I think if and when she loses, you\u2019re gonna hear this is basically a reflection on Trumpism. In other words, Trumpism is sort of losing its steam. I would just remind people that Great Britain is very much like us in the Rust Belt, as an analogy, and France is much like a college student or people in the faculty lounge. I mean, just because Brexit passes and then Le Pen loses, I think they\u2019re two different things, and people will conflate them that this sort of anti-globalism is no longer a big deal because of what they did in France.<\/p>\n Anyway, Bob, thanks for the call.<\/p>\n Folks, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard this story. If you haven\u2019t, you will now. I wonder what you think of this. Reuters got a pretty lengthy exclusive interview with President Trump, and they have released elements of that interview in a series of stories. One of them is, “Exclusive: Trump Says He Thought Being President Would Be Easier Than His Old Life<\/a>.” They quote the president as saying, “This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier.”<\/p>\n The more people they get in mass transit, \u2019cause they\u2019re the ones then controlling where you go and when you get there. Believe me, when I moved to New York in 1988, I didn\u2019t drive for eight years. I had to be driven everywhere, a whole bunch of reasons. And when I moved to Florida in 1997, the first thing I did was send my lawyer out to buy a car. I didn\u2019t want the dealership to know it was me and didn\u2019t want them following the guy home and all that.<\/p>\n I remember getting in that car and feeling like I was reborn, being able to go when I wanted to go without having to tell anybody, without having to have a phalanx of security people and tell \u2019em what time I wanted to go, have them, you know, advance an event to make sure of the best entrance, none of that. Just get in the car and go. Get in the car, if I want to make a call, pick up the phone. It was so exciting to get a cell phone built into the car system.<\/p>\n And not being able to drive for eight years — I mean, it wasn\u2019t something I was conscious of every day all eight years and thinking that I was being denied something. It\u2019s just when I had the chance to start driving, the excitement of getting my first new car in like 10 years. And then getting it and driving, I\u2019m telling you. And Trump says he misses that, not being able to drive, and he can\u2019t. He will not be able to — maybe a golf cart, but that\u2019s it. And it\u2019s a huge expression of independence, too, as well as freedom.<\/p>\n But are any of you bothered when you hear him say, “Gosh, this is much more work than I thought it was gonna be. This is much more work than my previous life.” Are any of you, for example, a little alarmed in the sense, “How could you think that this wasn\u2019t gonna be a busy job? How could you think that this was –” Anybody have that kind of reaction? Or are any of you alarmed that this is apparently one of the reactions the president gave to Reuters?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/650-022317-Rush-DC.jpg\")
“‘This is the best it gets and we gotta have a new normal.\u2019 For Trump to come in and prove us wrong? We can\u2019t allow that to happen.” Trump has a huge, huge wall of opposition that he is up against each and every day that\u2019s trying to stop him, destroy him, what have you. So these first-quarter numbers, the media\u2019s not even really making that big a deal of \u2019em, folks, \u2019cause it\u2019s too soon. Trump hasn\u2019t got enough of his fingerprints on things for these numbers to be related to much of what he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WashingtonDC-Stroms-B.jpg\")
They say he is isolated in the White House, that he\u2019s frustrated that he cannot drive. By the way, do not pooh-pooh that, if you do. You know, driving is… I mean, you might chuckle at it, but driving is one of the most direct expressions of individual liberty and freedom: The ability to go out, buy your car, get in it, and go. There\u2019s a reason leftists love mass transportation, trains, buses, light rail and other rotgut. The sooner they can get you out of their car, the better they would feel.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/650-012417_Rush-Points-300x144.jpg\")
Here\u2019s some of the other Reuters headlines. “As Trump Nears Day 100, Some Stirrings of Discontent.<\/a>” This is within his staff, and supposedly more and more people in Trump\u2019s immediate orbit wish he would get off Twitter. “Some of his supporters fret that President Donald Trump is backing himself into a corner with promises that can\u2019t be kept. Others lament he is not pulling America from international conflicts as he vowed — or say he should ‘get off of Twitter.\u2019 Those grumbles are early warning signs for Trump as he marks his 100th day.”<\/p>\n