{"id":252931,"date":"2017-10-31T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=252931"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:48:36","slug":"trumps-not-getting-the-credit-he-deserves-for-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/31\/trumps-not-getting-the-credit-he-deserves-for-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Not Getting the Credit He Deserves for the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The next sound bites are going to be 20 and 21. “Consumer Confidence Hits Highest Level Since December of 2000.” Some of this stuff doesn\u2019t make sense. You\u2019ve got polls out there showing Trump\u2019s approval numbers in the thirties and a number of other polls that show the American people are very worried about Trump and collusion with Russia and so forth.<\/p>\n

Then you get this. Then you get, you know, real-world polling data, real-world story news that shows people are happy and they\u2019re upbeat and they\u2019re content and they\u2019re optimistic. And it doesn\u2019t go well with all these other polls that show people are ticked off, fed up, angry, disillusioned, whatever, with Trump.<\/p>\n

“Consumers are more optimistic in October than economists polled by Reuters expected.” Now, that doesn\u2019t tell us much because the economists that Reuters would poll are predestined to presume bad news simply because Trump\u2019s in office. And also nobody could do better than Obama. Obama was the beginning and the end of everybody good. Obama was the end all, he was it. Nobody could ever be better, nobody could ever be smarter, nobody could ever be more relevant, nobody could ever be more whatever. And yet all of this real-world news is off the charts compared to what it was during Obama, real economic growth, real consumer confidence.<\/p>\n

It is\u00a0a CNBC story<\/a>: “Consumers were even more optimistic in October than economists polled by Reuters expected. Consumer confidence rose to 125.9 in October…” Forget that. What do we compare it against? The point is that “[t]he index ‘increased to its highest level in almost 17 years.'” I also have a fascinating story here. You know, there are two more postmortem stories from liberal Democrat journalists who are studying the corpse and still frustrated trying to explain to them and everybody else why Hillary lost and, vice-versa, why Trump won. Many of these focus on Russia.<\/p>\n

\"\"But these two that I have today don\u2019t mention Russia and they don\u2019t mention Trump. They are pretty hard-hitting, and they\u2019re pretty straightforward. It\u2019s interesting. It fascinates me how these people think, \u2019cause there\u2019s nobody out there better than I am at telling you what the left is gonna do before they do it. I understand these people. And it\u2019s because I endlessly study stuff like this, it\u2019s fascinating to me listen to them try to find out why they lost, and there\u2019s been so much time go by now that these two entries today are the closest that I think they\u2019ve gotten to the truth.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a third story accompanying these two from a writer who thinks the real answer to why Trump won all of those Democrat votes in Pennsylvania and Ohio and Wisconsin is due to the fact that there was one issue that only Donald Trump talked about, only one issue. That\u2019s the wrong way to put it. It\u2019s that there was a big issue that only Donald Trump saw that resonated with people who used to vote Democrat, and it\u2019s a fascinating piece. I\u2019ll give you a hint.<\/p>\n

I want to take you back to the campaign, to any Trump rally, to any Trump public appearance. Ask yourself a question, or answer one for me. Every time you heard Trump start weighing in on China and the ChiComs and what a bunch of cheaters they were and how they were outsmarting our stupid government officials — China this and China this and currency manipulation and all the other things Trump was accusing China of — how many of you said:<\/p>\n

\"\"“What the hell does China have to do with anything? China? I don\u2019t know what China from Smina. What — what — what — what — what?” How many of you reacted that way? I will admit that there are times I did. I said, “What the hell, China?” Well, this story explains why China may be the dominant reason, among many others, that Trump won in particular states with certain the voters.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Donald Trump this morning at the White House during a tax reform industry meeting, the first of two; and the next sound bite may surprise you a little bit. Here\u2019s the first…<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: The economy is doing very well, but it can do much better. A lot of jobs are gonna come from this, and a lot of companies are gonna start pouring back into the United States. In fact, we\u2019re gonna be announcing one big one sometime very shortly, a very big one coming back into the United States. All of you have done a tremendous job mobilizing your members, talking to the members of Congress — which is very important — and making a strong case for tax reform in the media. The media is not all fake, so therefore we can get a fair shake.<\/p>\n

CROWD: (chuckling)<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Now is the time to redouble our efforts. Your country needs you now more than ever before.<\/p>\n