{"id":244914,"date":"2017-08-17T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=244914"},"modified":"2017-08-18T16:26:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:26:57","slug":"ceos-didnt-really-break-ties-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/17\/ceos-didnt-really-break-ties-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"CEOs Didn\u2019t Really Break Ties with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: TheHill.com: “Trump\u2019s Isolation Grows<\/a> — President Trump\u2019s political isolation mounted on Wednesday, with business CEOs abandoning his economic advisory panels and GOP lawmakers ducking for cover.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, look, again, the CEOs may have made a public show out of leaving Trump\u2019s two advisory councils, but they\u2019re not going anywhere. I will guarantee you they\u2019re not going anywhere. These CEOs are not gonna give up the access they had. They\u2019re gonna continue to leverage it. They\u2019re gonna continue to talk with people inside the administration.<\/p>\n

They just wanted the video. They wanted the PR value of the video showing them walking away or their statements condemning Trump. Because whatever the media wants, the media is going to get. And if the media wants people condemning Trump, then Republicans and Democrats around the country will line up and give \u2019em that.<\/p>\n

\"\"“The last two Republican presidents, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, implicitly condemned Trump\u2019s reaction to the violence, urging the nation to ‘reject hatred in all forms.'” I thought Trump did that. See, this is where I get confused. I thought Trump did that in all three press conferences. He did. He rejected hatred in all forms. His mistake was to claim that there\u2019s hatred in Black Lives Matter and that there\u2019s hatred in Antifa. There\u2019s hatred in Occupy Wall Street.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Trump did wrong. You can\u2019t do that. There\u2019s no hate on the left. The hate is all on the right. But Trump did. And, in fact, isn\u2019t that why he\u2019s being savaged? If Trump would have just stopped, if Trump would have just condemned the hate among the Nazis and the white supremacists… I\u2019m sorry, he did, damn it be, he did, and you know the media said? We don\u2019t think you mean it because you didn\u2019t say it originally. You\u2019re only saying it because we\u2019ve shamed you into saying it, but we don\u2019t think you believe it.<\/p>\n

So Trump\u2019s probably saying to his staff, “I told you. I told you people that they\u2019re not gonna give me credit for it. I shouldn\u2019t have gone out there and done it because I told you it wasn\u2019t gonna work.” So he does the third presser in which he goes out there and launches.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see. From Reuters: “Trump\u2019s Crisis Spurs Talk of White House Departures <\/a>— President Donald Trump\u2019s turnabout on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia has rocked his administration, leading to rising speculation that some top officials may be looking for a way out.”<\/p>\n

Wow, you talk about a speculative story. “Trump\u2019s Crisis Spurs Talk of White House Departures”? Who\u2019s talking about it? The media is talking about it. “A parade of business executives broke ties with Trump on Wednesday.” No, they didn\u2019t, folks. They just made a public show of it. But As I say, they\u2019re still gonna be — in fact, we\u2019ve got audio on this. Let me find it real quick. I\u2019m not the only one saying this. Let me find this.<\/p>\n

Here is Andrew Ross Sorkin. This is CNBC Squawk on the Street, and the host is Sara Eisen. She\u2019s speaking with their cohost. “Do you agree that these councils had to become somewhat politicized? A lot of people saw them as photo-ops, but the real work being done behind scenes, whether it was people on the councils or other CEOs that this administration\u2019s talking about, they can still move forward as planned, even though they\u2019re disbanding the council, right?”<\/p>\n

SORKIN: That\u2019s absolutely the distinction here and I think that\u2019s the distinction that many of these CEOs are making in their own minds, which is to say that to some degree the councils had become a bit of theater. While I think they genuinely wanted to discuss and move forward with policy, they\u2019re still gonna be able to do that and I think they still will without the association, if you will, of these councils themselves. It\u2019s just not gonna be done with the cameras.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? Exactly as I told you. This is CNBC, Andrew Ross Sorkin. These guys are not gonna give up this connect. They\u2019re not gonna give up this leverage. They just want the show. They just want to be able to be seen on TV as hating Trump and refusing to be seen with Trump. Because the media is going to credit them as courageous and brave. They will be loved by their customers and their boards of directors and Twitter will favor them and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

Now, next up, Squawk on the Street, same show, the guest is Walter Isaacson, who is the president of the Aspen Institute. He wrote the biography of Steve Jobs. He\u2019s got a new one on Michelangelo. I just got the galleys the other day. I think it\u2019s Michelangelo. Wilfred Frost is the fill-in host, and he says to Isaacson, “We\u2019ve been discussing how the policy forum, the business councils, they hadn\u2019t really achieved that much anyway and lots of Republican members of Congress have not explicitly criticized the president and so far no members of the administration have resigned. So in a week\u2019s time when focus comes back on to other issues, whether it\u2019s geopolitical or domestic, could we all think that this was actually a storm in a teacup and really not that big a deal at the end of the day?”<\/p>\n

\"\"ISAACSON: The conservative movement in America and the Republican Party in America ever since the days of Reagan and even before have had an umbrella big tent in which Big Business is at the table and very influential, corporate America, but also social conservatives and people of different stripes. That coalition is being broken apart. He doesn\u2019t really have any members of that coalition anymore. He\u2019s getting down to Steve Bannon and David Duke as his last two coalition members.<\/p>\n

EISEN: You know that\u2019s not true, Walter. You know there\u2019s work being done at the Treasury and in Gary Cohn\u2019s team and people like Reed Cordish\u2019s team that are working actively with the CEOs. I\u2019m just not sure how much of that changes, and I\u2019m not sure how much the market is thinking anything changes as well as far as the legislative agenda.<\/p>\n

ISAACSON: No. And you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean, Walter? No, I mean, you\u2019re right after you just got through saying that everybody had abandoned him except for Bannon and who, David Duke? What a stereotypical creation that Isaacson went through there. Well, they were big tent corporate titans, bigwigs, and even the social conservatives. But with Trump they\u2019re all leaving.<\/p>\n

And it was Sara Eisen, “Come on, Walter, you know that\u2019s not true. Gary Cohn\u2019s still in there, and these guys are still gonna be talking to him.” And Isaacson, “No, no, no, I mean, you\u2019re right, you\u2019re right.” So Isaacson was gonna get away with that if Sara Eisen hadn\u2019t stepped back into it and forced him to take it back. So there was a good example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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