{"id":252425,"date":"2017-10-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=252425"},"modified":"2017-10-27T15:53:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:53:31","slug":"trump-is-dismantling-big-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/26\/trump-is-dismantling-big-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Dismantling Big Government — and the Media Hates It"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There is a story here from our old buddy Ben Shapiro, his website The Daily Wire. Headline: “Trump Promised to Cut Job-Killing Regulations, and so Far He\u2019s Outpacing Reagan.”<\/a> The story is actually written by James Barrett. “On the campaign trail, Donald Trump made a lot of promises, and while some of them, like the Big, Beautiful Wall, have thus far proven elusive, he\u2019s managed to keep several that aren\u2019t getting much airtime in the unprecedentedly negative coverage of him. One thing he\u2019s doing quite well at following through on is his promise to get the government out of the way of businesses.<\/p>\n

\"\"“In fact, he\u2019s doing it better than any president going back to Jimmy Carter — and, yes, that includes Ronald Reagan. Peter Boyer…” We know Peter Boyer. Peter Boyer did a profile on me back when Vanity Fair was worth reading. (interruption) No, no, no, no, no. That\u2019s Steve Roberts. Steve Roberts is the husband of Cokie Roberts of ABC News.<\/p>\n

Peter Boyer was a writer for Vanity Fair, and they assigned him to do a profile of me. And he said, “You know, when this is over you\u2019re gonna start getting invitations to parties at the Hamptons.” I said, “No way. I don\u2019t care what you write, it isn\u2019t ever gonna happen.” He said, “You watch. You watch.” And I think I got two.<\/p>\n

Anyway, he\u2019s a good writer. I\u2019ve always enjoyed reading everything Boyer does. He\u2019s at the Weekly Standard now. I guess everybody has to work somewhere. Just kidding. I\u2019m just kidding. In fact, one of my all-time favorite weekly columns is published now the Weekly Standard, Tuesday Morning Quarterback<\/a>, by Greg Easterbrook.<\/p>\n

“Peter Boyer at The Weekly Standard provides an analysis of just how well Trump is doing on slashing ‘job-killing red tape all across our economy,\u2019 as Trump put it in a speech a few weeks ago. ‘We have stopped or eliminated more regulations in the last eight months than any president has done during an entire term.'” It\u2019s kind of like Rush Limbaugh who says more in one show than most guys say in a year. That\u2019s how I\u2019m cutting regulations. “It\u2019s not even close,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Well, you want some evidence of this? I have here the latest TIME magazine cover<\/a>, and I want to show those of you watching on the Dittocam the latest TIME magazine cover. If you could switch to that, Brian, there it is. It is a series of three wrecking balls. And each wrecking ball is the face of Donald Trump with the orange hair. Actually, the yellow hair and the orange face. And the headline is, “The Wrecking Crew,” and the subhead, “How Trump\u2019s cabinet is dismantling government as we know it.” And that\u2019s the latest cover if you\u2019re watching on the Dittocam, that is it. Thereby saving you the trouble of buying the magazine or looking it up on your own.<\/p>\n

But if TIME magazine — you know, this is obviously very alarming to them, to make a cover story out of this, “The wrecking crew: Trump\u2019s cabinet is dismantling government as we know it.” And I think there\u2019s so many things happening in the Trump administration that aren\u2019t being covered. I find it a little curious that the media isn\u2019t focusing on this, from this point of view.<\/p>\n

The media loves government. The establishment loves government. Government is the citadel around which all of them work and are organized. So government is innately good, and it must constantly grow. There must never be any limits on it. And Trump is wreaking havoc all through the government: judicial nominations, economic policy, executive orders, the regulations that he has canceled and prevented from being implemented just at the EPA alone have the left nearly bat crazy.<\/p>\n

And you would think that the Drive-Bys would be writing about this because, in their world, everybody loves government, and I would think that they would think they could score major points against Trump if they would run around and just tell everybody what a dangerous force he is. And I think that\u2019s what TIME magazine\u2019s doing here with this cover. So I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if we see even more of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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