{"id":234288,"date":"2017-05-19T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=234288"},"modified":"2017-05-22T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T20:04:57","slug":"ap-story-portrays-trump-as-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/19\/ap-story-portrays-trump-as-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Story Portrays Trump as a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The AP, ladies and gentlemen, has a story here that… I referenced this in the first hour of the program. It\u2019s insulting; it\u2019s demeaning. It treats Trump as a seven- or eight-year-old who is in his Romper Room sandbox every day and really doesn\u2019t like leaving it. The story is written by Julie Pace. She\u2019s one of the writers, White House correspondent. The headline of this story: “Worldwide Effort Set to Keep Trump Happy on First Trip Abroad.<\/a>” What does that headline tell you — in context — if you put that headline in context with all the other Drive-By coverage of Trump the past year?<\/p>\n

\"\"Normally a headline like that would convey that worldwide efforts are underway to accommodate President Trump because of the high level of respect and integrity that he has and the desires of his hosts to treat him well because he\u2019s coming from the United States. But that\u2019s not what they mean. “Worldwide Effort Set to Keep Trump Happy on First Trip Abroad” means he\u2019s an insolent, immature little child, and the world is having to go to great lengths to keep him from having little temper tantrums and taking his ball and going home.<\/p>\n

“When President Donald Trump sits down for dinner in Saudi Arabia…” This is the lede of the story from the AP. “When President Donald Trump sits down for dinner in Saudi Arabia, caterers have ensured that his favorite meal — steak with a side of ketchup — will be offered alongside the traditional local cuisine.” Now, those of you in the audience are probably aware of this, but the Drive-Bys and people of uber-elite sophistication think that it is an outrage to have ketchup with a steak. It just isn\u2019t done.<\/p>\n

\"\"Not in public. Not in polite society. In movies, chefs have been portrayed as resisting the preparation of a steak for a customer if it\u2019s going to be served with ketchup. The chefs are portrayed as unwilling to have their great culinary creation ruined with such an accompaniment as ketchup. So throwing ketchup in here is also designed to illustrate that Trump is a child and he\u2019s unconventional and he\u2019s unsophisticated. Doesn\u2019t he know nobody eats steak with ketchup!<\/p>\n

Next paragraph: “At NATO and the Group of 7 summits, foreign delegations have gotten word that the new U.S. president prefers short presentations and lots of visual aids.” (chuckles) Yeah, the guy\u2019s such a child, you can\u2019t hold his attention for longer than five minutes unless you\u2019ve got some pictures. Unless you got some “visual aids,” you\u2019re not gonna hold his attention. So make sure you\u2019ve got some visual aids. You might want to throw in some beauty pageant photos, anything to keep this child\u2019s attention on what you want him to pay attention to.<\/p>\n

“At all of Trump\u2019s five stops on his first overseas trip, his team has spent weeks trying to build daily downtime into his otherwise jam-packed schedule.” Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump is running rings around everybody around him energy-wise. Donald Trump does not need downtime built into his schedule. He doesn\u2019t do downtime. Donald Trump is up at 3:30 or four every morning. He doesn\u2019t go to bed much before midnight. He is a person that literally doesn\u2019t need a lot of sleep.<\/p>\n

I think needing a lot of sleep is psychological, myself. I mean, if you spend your life believing you need eight, you need seven, whatever it is, you\u2019re not gonna be ready to go unless you get what you think you need. I know all kinds of people who sleep four hours a night. No hassle, no problem. They don\u2019t feel sleep deprived, either. People who expect seven or eight a night and only get four are gonna wake up feeling sleep deprived and it\u2019s gonna… So much is psychological.<\/p>\n

But the point is that it\u2019s everybody else who\u2019s gonna need downtime, not Trump. This is a smear job here. This is an effort to portray him as a child, as an immature kid with no attention span. He doesn\u2019t like words \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t like to read. You need to show him pictures. And, by the way, he can\u2019t work very hard. You know, he needs a lot of time to go to the playground, get in the swing set up, ride the merry-go-round or whatever. You better build that in, NATO!<\/p>\n

You better build that in, Group of 7, or you\u2019re gonna lose him. Next paragraph: “Even before Trump\u2019s trip morphed from a quick jaunt to Europe into a nine-day behemoth, White House aides were on edge about how the president would take to grueling pressures of foreign travel: the time zone changes, the unfamiliar hotels, the local delicacies. Two officials said they feared that a difficult trip might even lead the president to hand off future traveling duties to Vice President Mike Pence.”<\/p>\n

Now, I want to ask you: Have you ever seen a story on a Democrat president or secretary of state and the grueling rigors of the travel schedule? You haven\u2019t. You haven\u2019t. There\u2019s no sympathy extended for grueling travel schedules. But now the White House is on edge! The White House is nervous. The White House is deeply concerned that the president might not be able to handle the grueling pressures, which are “time zone changes, unfamiliar hotels, local food.” You see the picture? This guy is unsophisticated. He hasn\u2019t traveled!<\/p>\n

He likes steak and ketchup. He can\u2019t pay attention for five or six minutes. Make sure you show him some pictures and then make sure he\u2019s got time to go to the playground and the swing set — and be he careful \u2019cause all those time zone changes could really, really affect his mood. He may not be able to handle this. And these unfamiliar hotels…? He builds them, for crying out loud! He builds hotels around the world. He has golf courses around the world. He has traveled all over the place — and he\u2019s traveling on Air Force One, the most sophisticated, luxuriously equipped airplane in…<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, I take it back. Some of these potentates in the Middle East have some flying castles. Their Airbus 380s. I mean, Air Force One is no slouch in the luxury department. “Trump\u2019s final itinerary hardly eases him into the delicate world of international diplomacy on foreign soil. After departing Friday on an overnight flight on Air Force One, Trump will hopscotch from Saudi Arabia to Israel to the Vatican. He\u2019ll close his trip with a pair of summits in Brussels…” Get this.<\/p>\n

This a quote from Julianne Smith, “who served as a foreign policy adviser to [Biden] and is now a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security.” Ready? Quote: “The chance of something going wrong — you insult the hosts, you get sick, your boss gets sick, you miscommunicate with your hosts, you make a scheduling error, you need to change the schedule just hours before a meeting, the motorcade get stuck in traffic, or the plane is stranded due to bad weather — is extremely high. Personally, I think they should cut it back now before they regret it,” because she doesn\u2019t think the president is up to this kind of extensive travel.<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t motorcades that get stuck in traffic! When\u2019s the last time you saw a motorcade stuck in traffic? It doesn\u2019t happen. They clear everybody out of the way. A plane stranded by bad weather? You know what will happen in that case? The plane will take off and fly around the weather! The plane\u2019s not gonna sit on the ground and the president\u2019s not gonna sit on the ground as a target. This is absurd. But the chances of something — and, of course, what if any of these things go wrong. Trump\u2019s gonna blow his stack, of course.<\/p>\n

\"\"Trump\u2019s gonna lose his temper, may fire people right on the spot. If his motorcade gets hung up, if weather grounds Air Force One, if something goes wrong with the schedule… “The trip marks the first time since taking office that Trump has spent a night away from the White House at a property that does not bear his name.” (Gasp!) The horror! I hadn\u2019t thought of that. Donald Trump\u2019s gonna be spending the night someplace he doesn\u2019t own! I don\u2019t know about you, folks, I never do that. I never stay anywhere I don\u2019t own. I couldn\u2019t handle the pressure.<\/p>\n

If I had to go to someplace… If I go to Los Angeles, I never stay someplace I don\u2019t own. Of course, this is… This is absurd! Everybody stays in places they don\u2019t own or that don\u2019t have their names on it. “It\u2019s not just the bragging rights that Trump gets when he goes to his own properties…” See, there\u2019s no… Trump cannot illegally parlay this trip into profits for Trump organizations \u2019cause he\u2019s not staying in Trump hotels. This is one of the biggest hit pieces, and it\u2019s disguised.<\/p>\n

But this is one of the biggest hit pieces that I have seen in a while for what it actually is and how it actually portrays Trump and the allegations and the insinuations it makes. “Staffers know his meal preferences and the exact temperature he likes a room set at. He\u2019s often surrounded by long-time friends and acquaintances who have memberships to the commander in chief-owned retreats.” And all of this is gonna be none of that.<\/p>\n

\"\"Trump\u2019s gonna have to get by, he\u2019s gonna have to rough it — and with people he probably doesn\u2019t like, because he\u2019s bigot and he\u2019s a racist and he probably doesn\u2019t like the Saudis. And if there\u2019s anybody around that\u2019s got ties to terrorism, he isn\u2019t gonna like it. He may blurt out, “Hey, you\u2019re a terrorist! I do not want you in the meeting!” They\u2019re afraid he\u2019s gonna call out a leader as a terrorist. Oh, my gosh, the staff, the media, they\u2019re in panic mode because Trump is just so unpredicatable.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This business about Trump: “He\u2019s got a short attention span and you better show him a lot of pictures, maybe of some beauty pageants, otherwise you\u2019re gonna lose him.” You know what that really means? Trump does no-BS meetings. You get in, you get it, and you get out. There\u2019s no happy talk. There\u2019s no sitting around, get acquainted talk. “How are the kids?” It\u2019s “What are we here for?” Get in, get it, and get out. You know who\u2019s incapable of foreign travel is Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton could not have done a trip like this standing up, and Huma practically admitted it, that it took a village to get her anywhere and to keep her there once they got her there.<\/p>\n

Listen to the last paragraph of the story: “In Saudi Arabia, people with knowledge of the planning for Trump\u2019s trip say the caterers are planning to offer the president steak and ketchup…” So they put that in there a second time. “The people with knowledge of the Saudis\u2019 planning insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the sensitive details.” So, once again we have the same kind of anonymous, unnamed sources providing the meat of a story for the AP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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