{"id":234419,"date":"2017-05-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=234419"},"modified":"2017-05-23T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T20:40:27","slug":"phenomenally-sucessful-trip-proves-the-trump-of-the-washington-media-doesnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/22\/phenomenally-sucessful-trip-proves-the-trump-of-the-washington-media-doesnt-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Phenomenally Successful Trip Proves the Trump of Washington Media Doesn\u2019t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Man, oh, man, what a weekend. Holy smokes, folks. It may well be that I may be the only one, or maybe one of a select few, seeing things the way I see \u2019em \u2019cause I just ran it by Mr. Snerdley, the nut job in there, and he didn\u2019t get it. He didn\u2019t see it like I saw it. I didn\u2019t run it by anybody else, \u2019cause there are no other nut jobs in there except for Snerdley.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, greetings, my friends, welcome. It\u2019s Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, ready to go. This is the Memorial Day weekend, and we\u2019re gonna be here on Friday. Will not be here a week from today, that is Memorial Day itself, but we will be here on &#8212; wait, wait, you\u2019re looking at me like I have just dropped a &#8212; oh, he didn\u2019t know it was &#8212; I thought somehow you guys were not gonna be here on Friday in your own minds and now that I said I\u2019m gonna here &#8212; no. Do we want to take Friday off? Still time to arrange it, find some nut job guest host. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. (laughing) The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-234438\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump-Melania-Wave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump-Melania-Wave.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump-Melania-Wave-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Folks, I have to share with you an observation here. Let me tell you how this came about. Busy weekend. I didn\u2019t watch a lot of television until last night. I saw none of the president\u2019s &#8212; this is important to the observation. I didn\u2019t see any of Trump\u2019s stuff in Saudi Arabia live. I saw it on tape later.<\/p>\n<p>All I saw was textual reporting, websites, newspapers, and this kind of thing. And something struck me. And let me put it to you this way. Have any of you observed the complete, total difference in President Trump on this trip compared to the President Trump in Washington?<\/p>\n<p>Let me extrapolate or expand on this. The reporting on Trump, with a few obvious and predictable exceptions, has been over-the-top positive, deservedly so. Trump is kicking butt on this trip, if I may say. Trump is defying, once again, all of the odds and all of the things that were predicted about him. If you\u2019ll remember, the left, led by the news media, has been telling us practically from the day that Trump announced his candidacy that he would be a complete disaster, particularly in foreign affairs and foreign relations around the world, and even more particularly in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>We have been told that Trump is so reckless and so dangerous and so stupid and so uninformed and ill-prepared that he could undo all of the great accomplishments of every president before him combined in less than one week, such a boob is Trump. Trump would destroy any chance that our allies in the Middle East ever had of peace or of working with him. The United States and its precious image around the world would be destroyed by this bull-in-the-china-shop man.<\/p>\n<p>And, instead, the news of this weekend, the achievements, the accomplishments, the rave reception that President Trump is getting everywhere he is going, the profound respect &#8212; now, I understand that some of it may be flattery. I understand some of it may be calculated and not all genuine. But the point is, ladies and gentlemen, let me just cut to the chase. We\u2019re looking at two different presidents here if all we have to go on is the media.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump is in Washington, D.C., what is he? He is a genuine idiot. He\u2019s impolitic, he\u2019s uninformed, he\u2019s running a chaotic administration where nobody knows what anybody is doing. Whenever they do anything it is disastrous. Trump is cruising down the road to impeachment, and yet on this trip Trump is being hailed as great and accomplished and appreciated as any previous president has been. Maybe a couple of exceptions on specific items.<\/p>\n<p>Now, how can that be?<\/p>\n<p>How can the Donald Trump of Washington be such an insufferable boob, so incompetent, so incapable, so impolitic, so brusque, so boorish, so politically incorrect, and yet when he leaves the United States and heads to a foreign country, he becomes the epitome of greatness? He becomes the epitome of restraint, he becomes the epitome of discipline? How can this be? Well, I can give you one really good answer: The Donald Trump of Washington doesn\u2019t exist, because the Donald Trump of Washington is what is reported in the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n<p>The Donald Trump of Washington ends up being portrayed by all of these news stories that happen to be sourced by anonymous leakers. Every day in Washington at 5:30 there\u2019s a new bombshell in the Drive-By Media from an anonymous source once again informing us how incompetent, how ill-mannered, how ill-prepared, how in chaos, how out of touch Donald Trump is.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Udz9b5BThnw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We continue to get stories that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians, even though there\u2019s no evidence. We continue to get stories that Donald Trump is saying the most insulting, stupid things to people, that he\u2019s bragging to enemies about his nut job FBI director that he fired. None of it is substantiated. None of it is backed up by anybody other than anonymous leaks, but there are no anonymous leaks on this trip to the Middle East. So far. We don\u2019t have a single story that tells us that Trump told the king of Saudi Arabia, &#8220;Take the veil off, man. Get into the twenty-first century and look like a real man.&#8221; No leaks like this.<\/p>\n<p>We haven\u2019t had one leak about anything boorish, immature, childish, chaotic, incompetent that Trump has done on this trip. My point is that the Trump on this trip has been seen and shaped as unfiltered. The media has not been able to get themselves between whatever Trump is doing and saying and you. In Washington, it\u2019s just the exact opposite. The media is right there, between Trump and you. And the media is telling you who Trump is and what he\u2019s saying and what he\u2019s doing, courtesy of anonymous leaks. But none of this so far on this trip.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know I\u2019m speaking freely here. It\u2019s entirely possible, in fact predictable, that it won\u2019t be long before these kinds of leaks &#8212; \u2019cause Trump is doing well, folks. Trump is shocking everybody. He\u2019s shocking the Democrats. He\u2019s shocking the Republicans. He\u2019s shocking world.<\/p>\n<p>For example, who knew that Donald Trump was this religious? Contrast what\u2019s happened here in just the last three days with eight years of Barack Obama. We have had no apologizing. We\u2019ve had no bowing. We\u2019ve had a president of the United States actually tell the heads of state of countries where terrorism is rampant to get rid of it, to drive it out. We\u2019ve had a president of the United States directly confront Iran where his our previous president threw everybody else overboard for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll get into more of this in detail as the program unfolds, but stop and think of this. Consider the Trump that you have seen and watched in Saudi Arabia and now in Israel. Contrast that with the president you see and hear reported on in Washington. The two men don\u2019t even look remotely similar. This trip should not be possible. The news coming out of this trip should not be possible based on what everybody is saying about Trump in Washington. Incompetent, boorish, impolitic, rude, mean, all those things.<\/p>\n<p>And yet Trump gets off the plane in Saudi Arabia, gets off the plane in Israel, and is overwhelmingly respected and welcomed and appreciated. I have to think that it\u2019s not all just because he has the title of president. I think it\u2019s a stunning contrast. How can these two completely different characters exist: The Donald Trump of Washington and the Donald Trump of this trip? Have you noticed this? Has anybody else noticed this or is it just me? Maybe it\u2019s not as big a deal as I think it is.<\/p>\n<p>But, folks, it\u2019s the first thing that struck me, especially now given&#8230; It\u2019s important to know I didn\u2019t watch any of this stuff live. I only read about it. I couldn\u2019t believe what I was reading. I couldn\u2019t believe that I was reading instant slam dunks and constant criticism and stories making fun of and stories expressing fear, &#8220;Oh, my God! This man is destroying the world. He\u2019s destroying the country. Do you believe what he said to the king?&#8221; None of that. His wife, Melania Trump, is a huge star on this trip in every which way possible.<\/p>\n<p>And she was herself totally in Saudi Arabia. Did not bow to local convention. Everything that we have been told to expect from Donald Trump based on the domestic media and the way they\u2019ve covered and reported on him in Washington, we should have quaking in our boots. We should have been in fear. &#8220;Oh, no! What\u2019s Trump gonna say to these people to hack them off? How\u2019s he gonna insult them? What inoffensive, selfish, childlike thing is Donald Trump gonna say or do?&#8221; The answer is nothing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ObamaBows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ObamaBows.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ObamaBows-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>There hasn\u2019t been anything childlike; there hasn\u2019t been anything insulting. In fact, it\u2019s the exact opposite. Look, I have seen the Saudis greet American presidents. I\u2019ve seen them greet George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and I\u2019m telling you: I haven\u2019t seen what I saw this weekend. I\u2019ve not seen it, folks. All these think tank experts in Washington at the Woodrow Wilson Center say, &#8220;It\u2019s really, really a dangerous thing. It\u2019s just not right. The president of the United States should never, ever make his first foreign trip to the Middle East! Never, ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why not, Mr. Think Tank Specialist?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-234435\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump-Al-Sisi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump-Al-Sisi.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump-Al-Sisi-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>&#8220;Because it\u2019s too fraught with potential disaster. Because President Trump clearly is not sophisticated enough to know the idiosyncrasies, the customs, and the requirements. It\u2019s just too great a potential&#8230; The president needs to get more seasoning, travel other places, but no president&#8230;&#8221; That\u2019s right, no president ever has. Do you know that there has never by a direct flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv until Trump did it? Never. Now, granted, it wasn\u2019t a commercial flight. We\u2019ve got the prime minister of Egypt, the president of Egypt saying that Trump is uniquely equipped to do great things.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudis are so happy. People don\u2019t understand, the Saudi Arabian government &#8212; kingdom &#8212; hates Iran. They\u2019re scared to death of Iran. That\u2019s Shi\u2019a versus Sunni Muslim, and the Iranians are Persians. They\u2019re not Arabs. So it\u2019s a double whammy. There is no love lost, and the Saudis have been petrified over Barack Obama\u2019s peace dance and nuclear dealings with the nation of Iran. They are ecstatic to have Donald Trump. They were ecstatic to hear Donald Trump single out Iran. I know you say, &#8220;But, Rush! But, Rush! He didn\u2019t say &#8216;radical Islamic terrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He got close enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, Rush! But, Rush! Saudi Arabia (stammering) worldwide terrorism!&#8221; Yeah, but Trump went there and tackled it. You compare this to Obama\u2019s mindless twaddling, whatever it was, the Cairo speech that no can still tell you what he said. I just think&#8230; We\u2019ll get into all of this in detail as far as the comments that were made. We have audio sound bites coming up. But the contrast is striking to me. Two completely different presidents. One of them is on display, unfiltered for everybody to see, that\u2019s in Saudi Arabia and now Israel.<\/p>\n<p>And the other one is in Washington where everything written, broadcast, and said is written by anonymous sources in the deep state with no evidence of anything that they\u2019re saying. This is leading to a major, major problem in the Democrat Party. I mentioned this on Friday. You know, there\u2019s stories out there that the Democrats are starting to slowly walk back the idea that Trump\u2019s gonna be impeached. Do you know why that is? It\u2019s because there isn\u2019t any evidence, and there isn\u2019t any crime that Trump has committed that anybody has been able to find.<\/p>\n<p>And they won\u2019t find one. But the Democrat Party and the media &#8212; primarily, the media &#8212; has created a genuine insane asylum that is the Democrat Party base. The Democrat Party base believes that Trump colluded with the Russians. The Democrat Party base believes that the Russians stole election from Hillary. They believe it because that\u2019s what they\u2019ve been told solidly for nine months. They believe it. They have been driven insane.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-234437\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump-Melania-Saudi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump-Melania-Saudi.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump-Melania-Saudi-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>The media, irresponsibly carrying this narrative, has created a very volatile and dangerous situation because at some point it is going to be revealed that there isn\u2019t anything, and what are these lunatics gonna do? They are&#8230; Just as they expected Hillary to win in a landslide because they\u2019re media told them that and their media told them that their polls were showing it, and the media lied to \u2019em about this, that, and the other.<\/p>\n<p>They lied to \u2019em about how Trump was gonna be negatively affected by all the things he was saying. They\u2019re being lied to each and every day, and those lies become more intense. They enlarge, they get bigger, and they become more frequent, and the left lunatic base, which includes these judges&#8230; How about these judges who issued stays on Trump\u2019s travel order \u2019cause he hates Muslims? How does that wash with this weekend?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It is true, ladies and gentlemen, that the Drive-By Media is not spending a lot of time covering the Trump trip. The cameras are on. And if you know where to go, you can watch the speeches. But you\u2019re not seeing a lot of this at CNN. You\u2019re not seeing a lot of this on PMSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>And there is not a whole lot of reporting on this in the New York Times. The reason is, they don\u2019t want to write or televise any of this because it\u2019s in such stark contrast to the pictures they\u2019ve been painting of Trump. It\u2019s so incongruent. It\u2019s so inconsistent. Of course, the other reason why is the last thing, the last thing in the world they want&#8230; Don\u2019t forget what is driving a lot of this. In addition to all else, it is the protection of the Barack Obama legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Do not ever doubt me on that. These people have a personal attachment to Obama and his presidency and his legacy. And so Trump&#8230; It\u2019s just another of many reasons why Trump has to be diminished, destroyed, impugned, or what have you. But this trip is so phenomenally successful, so phenomenally positive that they can\u2019t report it because it doesn\u2019t fit with the Trump whom they have painted in the last six or so months. But it\u2019s still getting out there.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me grab a call quickly. Sandra, Omaha, great to have you on the program. Welcome.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TrumpPhonesWeGo-Trump-Yard-Sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TrumpPhonesWeGo-Trump-Yard-Sign.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TrumpPhonesWeGo-Trump-Yard-Sign-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>CALLER: Oh, thank you so much for taking my call. I cannot tell you how excited and thrilled my whole family is. My boys have been trying to get hold of you since December. They just love your show, love your books. We homeschool, and I just&#8230; You are just amazing.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that. I really do.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Now, what caught my attention this morning was when you were talking about not be able to see &#8212; and I\u2019m sorry (choking up), I\u2019m trying not to be emotional \u2019cause this really does get to me. You know, I watched every bit of live stream that I possibly could on this trip that the president is on right now, and I am so amazed at how respected and revered they\u2019re treating him. (choking up) I thought to myself, &#8220;Why aren\u2019t our American people giving him the same respect and honor? This man is doing so much for our country, and it was just&#8230; You know, I sat there all week and I thought, &#8220;What is wrong with this picture?&#8221; And then it just hit me. I thought, &#8220;You know what? He\u2019s completely removed himself from that toxic environment in Washington, and there\u2019s no leaks this weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There you go. There you go.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And when you said what you said, I thought, &#8220;That\u2019s exactly what I was thinking,&#8221; and I thought, &#8220;Thank you so much. Thank you so very much for this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I can\u2019t tell you, Sandra&#8230; I\u2019ve gotta interrupt; I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019ve had a number of people tell me the same observation you\u2019ve had, how amazing it is that Donald Trump\u2019s being respected more in that part of the world, and by even members of his own party, much less the Democrats. But all of Washington. Yes, we will talk about this. Thank you so much, Sandra.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It has been striking. I have had a lot of people send me notes expressing the shock at how much respect Trump is getting over there versus how little he gets here, especially in his own party.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Drew. Drew\u2019s in Dallas, as we head back to the phones. Great to have you, Drew. How are things?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Doing great, Rush, and thanks for taking my call. Mega dittos from the great state of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you. Thank you. It\u2019s &#8220;Tex-iss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (chuckles) &#8220;Tex-iss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s &#8220;Tex-iss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I was listening to your opening monologue this morning, and you just exactly described how I left watching that speech over the weekend. It was two different presidents. I mean, the way they portray him in the media here and the president I saw over there. I finally saw a president that I could be proud of, not bowing as he gets off the plane. You know, the first lady not wearing a headdresses, maintaining her ethics and all that. It really encouraged me on the speech and it\u2019s what I\u2019ve been waiting to see in Trump all the time. I was just glad to finally see it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you know, I think it\u2019s fascinating this contrast, and he\u2019s right. Drew, thanks. I addressed it in the first hour. Look, let me make the point further. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any difference in the two Trumps. Maybe I didn\u2019t make this clear. I don\u2019t think Trump\u2019s different in Washington than he is there. The difference is you don\u2019t have anybody tweeting. The Trump in Washington compared to the Trump in this trip, what\u2019s the difference? The Trump in Washington is filtered by the media. Folks, there\u2019s still, even today &#8212; and there\u2019s gonna be another bombshell. I guarantee you.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re all excited Flynn\u2019s gonna take the Fifth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn\u2019s gonna refuse to testify.<\/p>\n<p>That must mean Flynn\u2019s guilty!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-B2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-B2-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-B2-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>They\u2019re all excited that Comey\u2019s gonna be testifying live and in person, except Comey is testifying before the intelligence committee in the Senate. He\u2019s not testifying before the Judiciary Committee. You might say, &#8220;So what? What\u2019s the difference?&#8221; Well, if he\u2019s testifying before the Judiciary Committee, it could be he\u2019s testifying about an actual crime. But if he\u2019s testifying before the intelligence community, that\u2019s a whole different purview there. But that doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019re so excited. Comey\u2019s coming! So we\u2019ve got Flynn. Obviously Flynn not testifying, it means Trump\u2019s guilty! Trump did it! And Comey\u2019s coming up, and Comey\u2019s gonna drop the hammer! Comey\u2019s gonna unload on everything he knows.<\/p>\n<p>Comey is gonna single-handedly get Trump impeached this week. They can\u2019t wait. They\u2019re all beside themselves. They\u2019ve got more leaks. Bannon and Priebus left Saudi Arabia, came back to the United States. The media says that\u2019s because they did something to make Trump mad, they\u2019re soon to be fired, both laid off, it\u2019s gotta happen, too much chaos. The administration says no, they were scheduled to come back after the big meetings that were in Riyadh, nothing to see here.<\/p>\n<p>But the domestic reporting of Trump has not changed. I got it here in the Stacks of Stuff, all these horrible things, all rooted around this lie that Trump and the Russians colluded. They\u2019re not dropping it, not letting it go. But since Trump isn\u2019t in Washington, Trump\u2019s over there, he\u2019s making totally unrelated to news that flies in the face of the narratives here. The narratives today and last week do not compute with the Trump that we\u2019ve seen on this trip.<\/p>\n<p>My point is Trump is Trump. He\u2019s the same guy wherever he is. But the reporting on him on this trip is nowhere near like the reporting on Trump when he\u2019s in Washington. There aren\u2019t any leaks. For example, we haven\u2019t yet seen a story quoting unnamed sources in the Saudi government saying that the king was profoundly embarrassed when Trump asked if there was a McDonald\u2019s nearby.<\/p>\n<p>There hasn\u2019t been a leak from one of the associates of the king saying, &#8220;This guy Trump, he already insulted us wanting ketchup with his steak, and then he wanted two scoops of ice cream on the falafel. It\u2019s not done. This guy\u2019s an absolute barbarian.&#8221; And there hasn\u2019t been a leak from an associate of King Salman telling somebody in the Drive-By Media that Trump looked at his son, the prince, and said, &#8220;Man, I hope you live a long time \u2019cause your son\u2019s a nut job.&#8221; We haven\u2019t had leaks like this about the Trump foreign trip.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the Russians are saying that Trump did not say that. Sergey Lavrov said he didn\u2019t do any of this stuff that is being reported. Now, of course, who do we believe? It\u2019s a tough question. Do we believe the Russians or do we believe our own lying media? (interruption) Yeah, believe the Russians hands down, believe the Russians hands down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-052217-Trump-Saudi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-052217-Trump-Saudi.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-052217-Trump-Saudi-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>And why do we know that Trump called Comey a nut job? Well, because somebody that was in the meeting called &#8212; I forget which paper, New York Times or Washington Post &#8212; and read, they read the Times still hasn\u2019t really seen the memo, still haven\u2019t seen the transcript of the account, but somebody, unnamed source, called the paper and read them what Trump said. And then Spicer got on there and basically confirmed it by saying, &#8220;Well, yeah, but this was a little out of context here and there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So everybody thinks that Trump called Comey a nut job. What if he didn\u2019t? We already have documented countless lies that the media has told about Rosenstein and about Comey requesting more money. Comey\u2019s trying to hide behind the curtain so that Trump won\u2019t notice him? Maybe he is a nut job. But everyone, &#8220;That\u2019s just beyond the pale, Mr. Limbaugh. You wouldn\u2019t, a president would never, he\u2019s an enemy, I don\u2019t care what you say, Comey is a patriot, Comey\u2019s an American, Comey\u2019s on our side, you wouldn\u2019t dare, you wouldn\u2019t dare kneecap one of your own guys to your enemy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Probably not. But we don\u2019t know for a fact that Trump did. We only think we know because it\u2019s been reported by how many unconfirmed, anonymous sources? Two scoops of ice cream, Trump\u2019s so selfish, guests only get one. The contrast is stark. Trump on this trip and the Trump in Washington. My contention is that Trump is Trump. What\u2019s different is the reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: How can the Donald Trump of Washington be such an insufferable boob, so incompetent, so incapable, so impolitic, so brusque, so boorish, so politically incorrect, and yet when he leaves the United States and heads to a foreign country, he becomes the epitome of greatness? He becomes the epitome of restraint, he becomes the epitome of discipline? How can this be? 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