{"id":237265,"date":"2017-06-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=237265"},"modified":"2017-06-19T16:34:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:34:59","slug":"after-two-years-of-attacks-trumps-the-biggest-star-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/16\/after-two-years-of-attacks-trumps-the-biggest-star-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"After Two Years of Attacks, Trump\u2019s the Biggest Star in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: No, no, no, no, no, I have a different take. I have a totally different take. Well, I just don\u2019t see the doom and gloom. Everybody else does, but I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m looking at a couple of really weird people on TV, they caught my attention. Anyway, greetings. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Great to have you. It is Open Line Friday. That means that you get to talk about whatever it is you want to talk about. Monday through Thursday, the program is about what I care about. On Friday, I give you a shot at it. It\u2019s 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n<p>I get emails from friends, I get messages from friends, I get green bubble text messages from friends, I get panicked phone calls from friends, &#8220;My gosh, Rush, when is it gonna end? This just can\u2019t continue like this! I\u2019ve never seen anything like it! I mean, at some point, don\u2019t we have to admit we cannot beat these people and just kind of throw in the towel? This just can\u2019t go on!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People are reacting to the media. People are reacting to the independent counsel and all of the congressional investigations, the never-ending, oppressive, try-to-destroy-him coverage of Trump. Then we have the mainstream liberal Democrat shooting up the Republican congressional baseball team at practice earlier this week. And I understand the sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>People ask me every day, &#8220;Rush, how long can this go on? Rush, come on. When are the Republicans gonna fight back? Rush, come on. This just can\u2019t keep happening like this. Never seen anything like this.&#8221; I understand the sentiment, folks, but I have a different take.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are on June the 16th, 2017. This is an anniversary. Do you know what it is the anniversary of? I\u2019m getting blank stares from the other side of the glass. I\u2019ll give you a hint. It\u2019s a two-year anniversary. That\u2019s right. This is the two-year anniversary that Donald Trump and Melania took the escalator down at Trump Tower and Trump made his famous &#8220;I\u2019m running for the presidency&#8221; announcement, for which learned appellate courts are still using in their rulings on his executive orders.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/apjNfkysjbM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s look at something, just put it in a little bit of perspective here. For two years, the past two years, not just since Trump was elected and not just since Trump got the nomination, for the past two years the entire media-Democrat complex, and for a period of this you have to include the Republicans in it &#8212; in fact, you might still say the Republicans are part of this complex that has spent millions of dollars and countless hours to investigate Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>They have turned over every rock. They have dug as deep as they can. They have used anonymous sources from the deep state. They have made things up. They have even gone so far as to destroy the credibility of their own industries by creating fake news in their effort to get rid of Donald Trump, to produce some information. Some damning evidence of a crime that would have enabled them, A, to deny him the nomination. And after that failed, then to deny him the election. And then after that failed, then to deny him being inaugurated. And then after that failed, now to try to force him out of office.<\/p>\n<p>To the media-political complex, which we would have to say includes Hollywood and publishing, and of course the media and much of entertainment pop culture, Donald Trump is a nightmare who has come to life. He is a Frankenstein. He is a monster. He is, in their minds, everything they say they detest about human beings.<\/p>\n<p>The left is not crazy about human beings to begin with. And I don\u2019t say that to try to be funny, or I\u2019m not even exaggerating. They think that many of the problems that exist on planet Earth would not exist if human beings were extinct. So their starting point is to be angry and enraged constantly and to blame human beings. And in the process they create all these negative characteristics about human beings that they blame and detest. Donald Trump has them all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-237075\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-061417-Trump-DC-Shooter-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-061417-Trump-DC-Shooter-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-061417-Trump-DC-Shooter-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>In their mind, Donald Trump epitomizes, he encompasses every horrible, rotten, despicable characteristic of human beings. And he beat them. He won the most powerful office in the land. As such, not only did Donald Trump become the president, Donald Trump became the biggest star in the United States. He\u2019s also a star, folks. Do not think that he\u2019s just the president. He is a star. He\u2019s the biggest star. Stars are not always universally loved.<\/p>\n<p>Trump loves being a star, by the way. It\u2019s one of his earliest objectives, and he has accomplished reaching the pinnacle of stardom. The pinnacle of stardom would be name recognition and everybody in addition to knowing who you are, having an opinion of you. To be obsessed with you, to be consumed by you, Donald Trump has achieved all of this and more by defeating a large group of professionals who hate him, who despise him, who have used every weapon in their arsenal to destroy him. And they have failed.<\/p>\n<p>To date, they have failed. Trump has become bigger than they ever imagined. Trump has become bigger than they ever thought they could be. They resent and despise and hate Donald Trump for a multitude of reasons. And all they know is, they have to get rid of him. Short of that, they have to destroy the stardom aspect. They certainly cannot permit the political identity and ideas of Donald Trump to triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump must be destroyed simply because he\u2019s there. Donald Trump has to be taken out. He has to be destroyed and ruined politically and, if they can, financially. Make no mistake that that\u2019s an objective too. You can read between the lines the latest leaks of the highly respected and immensely respected Robert Mueller, the independent counsel, going after Trump\u2019s money, going after Jared Kushner. They are not going to leave one stone unturned in their effort to demolish, to ruin, to destroy Donald Trump. They want to obliterate the star. They want to create a figure of great shame and embarrassment, and they want to take away from him all of his achievements, including his money.<\/p>\n<p>You might think this sounds irrational. You\u2019re right; it is. It is entirely irrational. This degree of hate is irrational. It\u2019s unnatural. The fact that they stick with it and maintain it is destroying them. Everything I hear, Trump is in a fine mood. Everything I hear, Trump\u2019s enjoying his life as president. Frustrated by things, but, I mean, he\u2019s not cowering in the corner fearful and worried and angry.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s living his life. He\u2019s doing what he was elected to do the best he can. And he\u2019s appreciating and very much adoring his stardom, which is rooted in his presidency. And that upsets them even more. They simply can\u2019t get over this. They can\u2019t abide it. They can\u2019t believe that after two years &#8212; this is not something that\u2019s gone on just the past six months &#8212; they can\u2019t believe that they\u2019ve not been able to take Trump out in two years.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen or 16 Republican candidates were not able to do it. Hillary Clinton couldn\u2019t do it. The Democrat National Committee couldn\u2019t do it. David Axelrod couldn\u2019t do it. The great John Podesta couldn\u2019t do it. Nobody could do it. There hasn\u2019t been a single soul. James Comey didn\u2019t do it. Now they\u2019ve turned to Mueller. Mueller, we want you to do it. Rosenstein tried to do it, couldn\u2019t do it. Now Rosenstein\u2019s thinking about recusing himself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-237280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-061617-Trump-Star.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-061617-Trump-Star.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-061617-Trump-Star-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Before this is over, the entire Department of Justice is gonna recuse itself. You haven\u2019t heard about Rosenstein maybe recusing himself? How silly is that? Sessions recuses, Rosenstein might have to recuse because he\u2019s got some involvement with the players here. It\u2019s absurd. This is the theater of the absurd. It\u2019s obvious what it is.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post has a story today written by Amber Phillips: &#8220;Trump Keeps Creating His Own Personal Hell.&#8221; They\u2019re giddy! They\u2019re excited. It\u2019s a bizarre article, and they\u2019re thrilled. (summarized) &#8220;Trump\u2019s helping us! Trump\u2019s admitting he\u2019s under investigation!&#8221; Have you heard that one today? Trump tweeted out he\u2019s being investigated by a guy&#8230; (chuckles) Here\u2019s what he says: &#8220;I am being investigated for firing Comey by the guy who told me to fire Comey.&#8221; Despite everything they\u2019ve thrown at Donald Trump, he\u2019s still there.<\/p>\n<p>I know nobody cares about this. Have you seen the unemployment numbers today? &#8220;Claims for U.S. Jobless Benefits Fall by 8,000.&#8221; The unemployment situation is getting better. &#8220;The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell for a second straight week, further evidence of strength of the labor market.&#8221; Who knew? Did you see that Trump discovered that there was still a panel of American scientists working on the Y2K problem? Do you remember what the Y2K problem?<\/p>\n<p>It was 17 years ago. It was a great conspiracy theory. It was a great fear that a bunch of computers were not gonna make the automatic change to the year 2000 and that airplanes were were fall out of the sky and bombs were gonna be launched. Remember all that? Nothing happened. Trump just found out that there\u2019s a group of scientists still studying this, still working and still spending money, still being paid. So he\u2019s shutting it down.<\/p>\n<p>So now we\u2019ve got an independent counsel, Mueller. He\u2019s got 13 people or more working with him. He\u2019s hiring new people all the time, most of them liberal Democrats. For two years &#8212; for two years &#8212; they have looked under every rock. For two years, they\u2019ve overturned every stone. They\u2019ve done everything they can. They\u2019ve employed the Russians. They\u2019ve used the Russians. They tried to use the prime minister of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve done everything. They can\u2019t do anything, can\u2019t find anything to actually indict Donald Trump or anybody working for him in two years. So what are they going to find in the next two years that no one has found in these two years? The answer is probably nothing, but that\u2019s not the point. They\u2019re not looking for anything now. If they find it, that\u2019s gravy. What they\u2019re doing now is simply creating (or trying to) the illusion that Trump is a corrupt, dishonest, mean-spirited, horrible guy who needs to go.<\/p>\n<p>But this is where I have a slightly different take on this, the two-year anniversary of Trump and Melania speeding down the escalator at Trump Tower, where he said he doesn\u2019t appreciate military people who get captured like McCain and a number of other things. For two years, the media-political complex and all their allies have been using the same tactics on him, and for two years he\u2019s survived it &#8212; and as you survive these things, you get stronger. This is where some of you may differ with me in interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>But Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Every day they try to destroy him. Every day they try to take him out. Every day they try to diminish him. But what are they actually doing? I have a sound bite coming up later in the program, a disgusted sound bite from media people. Charlie Rose and Jeffrey Goldberg contemplate the reality that Trump isn\u2019t gonna quit, that he\u2019ll not be impeached, and he\u2019s gonna be president for four years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-233582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TrumpTrust-in-Trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TrumpTrust-in-Trump.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TrumpTrust-in-Trump-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>They actually contemplate that as though, &#8220;Oh, my God! Do you realize this could happen?&#8221; It\u2019s kind of like Charlie Rose and Brokaw discussing the fact that they didn\u2019t know who Obama was and were gonna vote for him anyway. They\u2019ve just awakened to the reality here that it\u2019s been two years and nobody\u2019s laid a glove on the guy, not really, not in terms of making him quit. They\u2019re nowhere near articles of impeachment. They can\u2019t do it \u2019til the Democrats win. Not even the feckless Republicans will go there, although I have separate thoughts on them coming up.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look what has been reported. The director of the FBI &#8212; who, by the way, The Daily Beast now says is Washington\u2019s favorite left-wing sex symbol. James Comey. (interruption) Do you know who Comey is? Is he sex symbol. No way, right? But leftist women in Washington think he\u2019s at the top of that list. The director of the FBI was afraid top of dinner with Trump alone. He hid behind a curtai; he was so scared! He didn\u2019t want to be seen or noticed. The most respected man in America today, Robert Mueller &#8212; and he\u2019s only the most respected \u2019cause he\u2019s trying to destroy Trump.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the latest one they\u2019ve called on to do it. He\u2019s got a reputation beyond reproach. The great Robert Mueller is so afraid that he\u2019s gonna be fired by Trump that he\u2019s leaking all over Washington trying to prevent Trump from firing him, trying to make it politically unfeasible. &#8220;Mueller\u2019s never done this before. Mueller is the king of integrity. He\u2019s the prince of propriety. He would never engage in leaking!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We were assured that this kind of leaking is beneath the great Mueller, and yet every day the special counsel is nothing more than a faucet. It\u2019s turned wide open. I have no doubt that he\u2019s doing all the leaking because the word went out that Trump might fire him too. So leaking all these things they\u2019re looking into &#8212; like money laundering and stuff like this &#8212; is designed to make it harder for Trump to do it. But wait. I\u2019m only halfway through this, so hang on.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You don\u2019t think Donald Trump\u2019s a star? Donald Trump\u2019s bigger than the Beatles. Donald Trump is bigger than Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bill Maher doesn\u2019t even compare. Donald Trump is bigger than Carl Sagan. I\u2019m trying to pick left-wing stars and heroes here. Donald Trump is bigger than Bill Gates. Donald Trump is bigger than Steve Jobs. Donald Trump is the biggest star in the world today. And do not doubt me. It grates. It grates on everyone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-235743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TrumpPresident320-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TrumpPresident320-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TrumpPresident320-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TrumpPresident320-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>I don\u2019t know how many Washington political class members get all concerned about the stardom, but the popularity and the name recognition, everything they seek, the power, the adulation from supporters, Donald Trump has it, and they don\u2019t. Especially on the Democrat party side. They don\u2019t. And there are very few Republicans either who can even approach Trump in the size and scope of his devoted base of support comprised of real Americans. And it grates on them.<\/p>\n<p>I believe all these people are afraid. I think Mueller is afraid. I think his own cabinet, Trump\u2019s own cabinet respects him so much, may be so petrified they make it known how much they respect him. They praise him of their own volition in that cabinet meeting. I\u2019m not finished yet.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Two years ago today Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president of the United States. In two years, they have tried to stop him. In two years, they have thrown everything they know how to thrown. In two years, they\u2019ve uncovered everything they think they\u2019ve got. In two years, they\u2019re making things up. They\u2019re leaking lies. Journalism has been reduced to something they never thought it could become. It\u2019s become a joke.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become the most untrustworthy of all institutions in politics &#8212; and that is saying something. Journalism is now not even journalism; it\u2019s just part of the partisan agenda in Washington, D.C., that chooses sides. They are uniform in the side they choose. As such, journalism\u2019s destroying itself. I\u2019m of the belief that in the real world, the enemies of Donald Trump are destroying themselves. They are being eaten alive with their own rage and hatred.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not pretty; it cannot be sustained. There\u2019s nothing rewarding, uplifting, or encouraging about it; there\u2019s no good that can come from it. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever known anybody who is rabidly consumed with hate and never allows it to abate. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen people that are obsessed and can\u2019t let something go. Your first instinct is that it\u2019s not good for them. It isn\u2019t healthy. There\u2019s something wrong with them. These people are consumed and obsessed.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re swallowing their own bile every day. Because as the day ends, as each day ends, they awaken the next morning to find Donald Trump right where they hate hum being. They find Donald Trump right where they have tried to kick him out. They find Donald Trump where they are most fearful. They find him right there in the Oval Office or on Air Force One or whatever he\u2019s doing as president. Every day the forces of hate and obsession have to deal &#8212; privately, publicly &#8212; with the evidence of their own ongoing failure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-236189 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-060817-Trump-Escalator.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-060817-Trump-Escalator.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/650-060817-Trump-Escalator-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Ever since they succeeded in taking out Richard Nixon they have been longing for this day. That was the ultimate thrill. That was the ultimate affirmation of their purpose: Taking out Richard Nixon, forcing him to resign, getting rid of a Republican president they hated. They have sought to do the same thing with ever Republican since with varying degrees of intensity. They didn\u2019t work very hard in getting rid of George H. W. Bush because, in the end, they didn\u2019t have to. George W. Bush? Ronald Reagan? They tried.<\/p>\n<p>Iran-Contra, second term, much what we\u2019re feeling and dealing with here in the same seemingly endless, ongoing investigation of nothing, purely manufactured and made up by the opposition to Reagan. It\u2019s the same thing happening here. They wanted to get rid of Reagan; they failed. When Reagan died and had his funeral and this nation joined together? You know the fake unity they\u2019re saying happened in baseball game last night? That wasn\u2019t unity last night. That was phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock &#8216;n\u2019 roll photo-op.<\/p>\n<p>That was not unity. (interruption) You think it was unity last night? It wasn\u2019t unity. The media\u2019s all over it talking about it being unity; it wasn\u2019t unity. The Democrats were booing Republicans last night before the night ended. There was no unity last night. That was simply plastic banana, good-time, phony photo-op. Real unity is when this nation lined the streets of the Reagan motorcade at his funeral and the leftists and the media and the Democrats were beside themselves. They thought they had destroyed Reagan\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>They thought they had destroyed Reagan\u2019s image, and they were gobsmacked. George W. Bush, the Iraq war. They did everything they could to destroy his presidency, and here they are doing it again &#8212; and each day they awaken with the reality that they are failing. Now, I realize some people don\u2019t see it that way. You wake up, &#8220;Ah, my God, Rush. They\u2019re not going away! They\u2019re keeping it up. They\u2019re intensifying it. They\u2019re making more stuff up. My God, I don\u2019t know how Trump can hold on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-228391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-020.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-020-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-020-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>Trump\u2019s holding on. Trump\u2019s thriving. Trump\u2019s the biggest star in the world. That\u2019s what Trump wants, among many other things, and he\u2019s achieved it. Every day the people who are trying to take him out are the ones have to face the reality they haven\u2019t done it yet. And they don\u2019t have any evidence of any of the things they have alleged or alluded, and they know that too. So what they\u2019re doing is what they always do in the Drive-By Media: try to create false and phony narratives that convince a majority of the American people.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re failing at that. They do not have their monopoly anymore. They\u2019re unable to get away with it. I\u2019ll give you an example. Chris Cillizza, our old buddy. He used to be at the Washington Post, but he went to CNN for the big bucks and the face time. So he goes over there, and he sends out a tweet the other day. You people that claim fake news? There\u2019s no fake news. You can\u2019t just say there\u2019s fake news with no examples! Well, there were immediately 2400 tweets in response with endless examples of fake news.<\/p>\n<p>Now, either Cillizza didn\u2019t know &#8212; and, folks, do not discount that. These are the most insulated, insular people in the Washington press corps, the entire Washington political class. They don\u2019t know what you in Iowa or Georgia or anybody else thinks. They don\u2019t know what you think or what you\u2019re doing. They don\u2019t care. They don\u2019t read anything but themselves. I mean, how many stories on fake news has CNN done? The only fake news stories they do on what a joke Trump is for accusing them of it, but they don\u2019t ever report any while they engage in it.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s logical to assume Cillizza may not even know that there\u2019s fake news out there, even his own, and he had to be shocked. In the old days, before there was this alternative media, they would get away with these things. They don\u2019t get away with it. It looks like they get away with it, but they\u2019re not getting away with it. Trump\u2019s approval rating at Rasmussen is at 50%. That is gonna irritate them. The Republicans&#8230; Let\u2019s look at them. The Republicans cannot get Trump to stop tweeting. They are petrified over what he tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Members of his own party wish he would shut up, members of his own party wish he would stop tweeting, members of his own party (and everybody) else wish he would start acting more presidential. But Donald Trump\u2019s 140-character proclamations change the world every day. Donald Trump\u2019s tweets thwart and obstruct the unified effort of his enemies to destroy him. Donald Trump\u2019s tweets keep his supporters supporting him. Donald Trump\u2019s tweets are one of the best weapons he has against this all-out assault arrayed against him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-234437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/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 Saudis! The Saudis treated Donald Trump like a conquering emperor. That wasn\u2019t supposed to happen for anybody but Obama! That\u2019s another thing: Trump\u2019s attacking the Obama legacy and is trying to unravel it, thread by thread. They hate him for that. He\u2019s going to continue. NATO. The leaders of Europe are scared to death to be in the same room with Trump. They\u2019re scared not because he\u2019s insane, but because he means what he says. You remember the joint press conference with the president of Romania, where Trump first answered questions about either firing Comey or whatever the latest controversy of the day was?<\/p>\n<p>The president of Romania said (paraphrased), &#8220;We are going to increase our spending in NATO because of President Trump.&#8221; The president of Romania credited President Trump for beefing up NATO and making everybody in it face their responsibilities. The Drive-Bys\u2019 faces fell. It\u2019s not supposed to happen! The president of Romania is supposed to be on their side dumping on Trump. He\u2019s supposed to be telling everybody what an idiot Trump is. He\u2019s supposed to be telling everybody how embarrassing it is that Trump is the president and he\u2019s destroying NATO.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not what happened. It was the exact opposite.<\/p>\n<p>The North Koreans &#8212; that little potbellied dictator Kim Jong-un was so afraid of him they released a hostage. They weren\u2019t afraid of Obama. They would not have been afraid of Hillary. They are afraid of Donald Trump. We want them to be afraid. Dennis Rodman&#8230; Dennis Rodman is over in North Korea or was. (chuckling) This is a picture. Dennis Rodman is presenting a gift to one of Kim Jong-un\u2019s aides. You know what the gift was?<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s book, The Art of the Deal. Dennis Rodman gives the pot-bellied dictator\u2019s aide &#8212; it\u2019s a book intended for the pot-bellied dictator &#8212; Trump\u2019s book, The Art of the Deal. The North Korean aide is smiling, Dennis Rodman is smiling, they\u2019re both holding the book up as the North Korean executive looks happy to receive it. Not Obama\u2019s book or books, and none of Hillary\u2019s phony baloney books, and not Bill Clinton\u2019s book (impression) &#8220;My Lie.&#8221; (sic) Donald Trump\u2019s book, The Art of the Deal.<\/p>\n<p>When that picture spreads, they\u2019re gonna hate even more. Donald Trump, ladies and gentlemen, is so powerful he even got Vladimir Putin and the Russians to run his presidential campaign for him. Do you think&#8230;? Do you think that anybody could have done that? Could Bill Clinton have done that? Could Obama have done that? No way! Hillary couldn\u2019t have done it. John Kerry couldn\u2019t have done it. Donald Trump is so powerful, he got Putin to run his campaign and run interference for him and take out the Democrats. Name anybody else who could have done that!<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They say in politics that perception is reality. Well, if so, if perception is reality, then the Drive-By Media with their two-year campaign designed to diminish and destroy Donald Trump may be doing just the opposite. He\u2019s still there. Just now he lands in Miami, and he\u2019s gonna reverse Obama\u2019s decisions on Cuba. And Fox News has got a panel discussion going. &#8220;Oh, no! Oh, no! Is this further evidence that Trump is unraveling the Obama legacy?&#8221; Yes, it is. And they hate that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-235024 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-052517-Obama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-052517-Obama.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-052517-Obama-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Obama was God. Obama was untouchable. You could not criticize Obama. Obama was perfect. 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