{"id":257170,"date":"2017-12-07T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=257170"},"modified":"2017-12-08T16:20:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T21:20:16","slug":"obama-compares-trump-to-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/07\/obama-compares-trump-to-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Compares Trump to Hitler!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I saw something that was… A new round of criticism from Never Trumpers about Trump, and I\u2019m sitting here thinking, “You know, you want to talk about irony?” You know, some of these Never Trumpers out there are ardent conservatives. You know who they are as well as I do. You know the magazines; you know the blog sites.<\/p>\n

\"\"When you get down to looking at what Trump has done, when you look at Trump\u2019s agenda, you\u2019re gonna find more conservatism than we had with George W. Bush. You\u2019re gonna find more conservatism than we had with George H. W. Bush. You\u2019re gonna find more conservatism in the Trump agenda, you\u2019re gonna find more conservatism in the items of the Trump agenda which have been implemented already, and the Never Trumpers have a saying now saying, “Yeah, well, maybe Gorsuch,” meaning:<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s the only thing we can credit Trump for: Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.” But that\u2019s by no means everything. It\u2019s gotten so bad… Did you see what Obama said yesterday? I\u2019m getting ahead of myself here in terms of the Stack. Obama actually compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler on the genocide angle. Barack Hussein Obama actually, in a speech, worries about Trump eventually committing genocide on people the way Adolf Hitler did.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t find a peep about it in the Drive-By Media. Now, you let some deranged right-winger make a similar statement, and the Drive-By Media drops everything and tries to wipe \u2019em out and destroy \u2019em. And here comes Obama. I\u2019ll find it after the break and give you actually some of the quotes and details of where he made the statement, but this is unprecedented. And he wasn\u2019t cracking a joke. So Obama is terribly worried about Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump is more conservative than anything they ever imagined. And as you know, there are a lot of establishmentarians in the Republican Party who hate conservatism themselves and don\u2019t like conservatives. You know, Trump proving to be, whether he is one or not, whether… We know he\u2019s not ideology, but his political instincts in terms of the agenda items he has and how he\u2019s trying to implement them got conservatism fingerprints all over them.<\/p>\n

And this has gotta be irritating them even more, because these are the people, these Never Trumper conservatives who have been trying to tell everybody for years that they are the definition of conservatism. They are the rightful inheritors of Reagan (who they didn\u2019t like, either) or any other brilliant intellect conservatives. And yet what have they done to implement diddly-squat? Nothing. Here comes Trump, who\u2019s implementing serious conservative agenda items, and they still trash him.<\/p>\n

Now, Obama piping up that they\u2019re worried on the left here that Trump could actually be like Hitler in terms of genocide. I mean, it\u2019s a direct reference to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Obama was speaking at the Economic Club of Chicago in a friendly interview with CBS News financial analyst Mellody Hobson. And wait a minute. Mellody Hobson. Mellody Hobson, she\u2019s married to George Lucas. Mellody Hobson is married to George Lucas, has donated over a hundred thousand dollars to Obama\u2019s presidential campaign. She\u2019s called Colin Kaepernick a hero of hers. And she interviewed Obama.<\/p>\n

And in this interview, which is described as friendly, “Obama suggested we could have an American genocide akin to what happened in Nazi Germany with Donald Trump as President. The former president was speaking to the Economic Club of Chicago when he made the caustic remark, in comments captured by Crain\u2019s Chicago Business political columnist Greg Hinz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“According to Hinz, Obama warned Trump\u2019s ‘nativism\u2019 and distrust of the press would cause our ‘democracy to fall apart quickly.\u2019 Obama then made the connection between Trump and Hitler, warning \u201960 million people died,\u2019 when the world got ‘complacent.'”<\/p>\n

And of course this Hinz guy apparently loved what Obama said, because he tweeted out: “Take that, @realDonaldTrump: @BarackObama makes clear his view that a complacent America could be headed the way of Nazi Germany. Read his remarkable comments at #EconomicClub of Chicago.”<\/p>\n

Holy smokes. And you haven\u2019t seen a word of this I will bet you anywhere in the Drive-By Media. Well, it\u2019s beyond outrageous. I mean, it is outrageous. But it\u2019s so far beyond outrageous. It\u2019s unpresidential, it\u2019s paranoid, pick your adjective and your descriptive.<\/p>\n

Anybody else comparing anybody to Hitler, and here come the Drive-Bys and everybody else descending on you, saying, “It\u2019s irresponsible. You shut up. We\u2019re gonna make sure you can\u2019t speak if you keep talking this way.” And they just descend on these people like crazy. Here\u2019s the former president of the United States alluding — not alluding; warning that if we get complacent with Trump and his nativism it\u2019s gonna lead to a genocide of 60 million people, like happened in Nazi Germany. Are they in panic, or what?<\/p>\n

I think exactly what I thought was gonna happen is happening. I think Obama is a combination of angry, livid, outraged, paranoid that his agenda is being unraveled, because that\u2019s exactly what Trump is doing. Trump is unraveling all of Obama\u2019s executive action regulations that he can, global warming, the Iranian nuke deal. Trump is literally unwinding everything Obama did, tried to unwind Obamacare.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is trying to erase the Obama presidency, and Obama damn well knows it. I thought this would happen long before now, but it\u2019s finally happened. I predicted to you people Obama is gonna go on TV and start warning everybody. I never thought he would compare Trump to Hitler. But he knows what\u2019s going on. And he viewed his eight years as just the foundation and then the next Democrat presidents would further it and we would finally at some point transform America. Now it\u2019s all being not just unraveled, but erased. And they\u2019re livid.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The story on the Obama Nazi comments is found it at NewsBusters<\/a>, and even when I saw it, I said, “Be careful with this. This is so out there.” But it looks like every bit of it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: TheHill.com has run the story on Obama at the Economic Club of Chicago. That\u2019s the only mainstream media news report I\u2019ve seen on it, and it\u2019s barely. “Obama Warns of Complacency, Notes Rise of Hitler.<\/a>” Nothing in the headline about comparing Trump to Hitler. Nothing in the headline about warning the American people and the world that Trump could become Hitler.<\/p>\n

\"\"And then from TheHill.com story, “While some could see the remark as a veiled jab at President Trump, Obama did not mention Trump by name during the event.”<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s not what I\u2019ve got here. The NewsBusters story: “Obama Warns Trump Will Lead America to Genocide Like Hitler.<\/a>” And this comes from a guy, again, named Hinz, Greg Hinz at Crain\u2019s Chicago Business.<\/p>\n

“According to Hinz, Obama warned Trump\u2019s ‘nativism\u2019 and distrust of the press would cause our ‘democracy to fall apart quickly.\u2019 Obama then made the connection between Trump and Hitler, warning \u201960 million people died,\u2019 when the world got ‘complacent.'”<\/p>\n

So whether or not Obama actually mentioned Trump\u2019s name or not, the reporter was happy that he was drawing the analogy and comparison to Trump and Hitler. That\u2019s what everybody there thought Obama meant. So TheHill.com is going out of its way. And this line is buried the bottom of their story. “While some could see the remark as a veiled jab at President Trump, Obama didn\u2019t mention Trump by name.”<\/p>\n

Let me tell you something. He meant Trump because the last two weeks, we had the story sometime last week or the week before, Obama has been shadowing Trump on Trump\u2019s foreign trips. You know, Trump will go to outer Myanmar and a couple days later Obama will show up. And then Trump will go to Japan, then Obama shows up. Wherever Trump went on this most recent trip, Obama followed by a day or two and was trying to control any damage, pick up whatever pieces.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubt, folks, it\u2019s not just Mueller. Now Obama\u2019s in on this. This is a full-fledged effort to do damage, heavy damage leading ultimately to the destruction of Trump and his presidency. There\u2019s no doubt in my mind, there\u2019s no question about it. From Obama shadowing Trump on his foreign trips and now this — it\u2019s amazing. You have people who were there from Crain\u2019s Chicago Business celebrating Obama\u2019s comment immediately drawing the connection between Trump and Hitler from Obama\u2019s words.<\/p>\n

And now TheHill.com: “Well, there was no direct mention of this, some have said, but –” They don\u2019t want to run the story. They had to touch on it. I haven\u2019t seen it anywhere else but TheHill.com. This is hard to describe how beyond the pale this is.<\/p>\n

\"\"I mean, think back over any of the recent past when, you know, one of the things you just don\u2019t do, it\u2019s considered beyond the pale, is to compare anybody in American politics today to Hitler. To compare anybody to Hitler. They laugh at you, they smirk at you. When you do that they claim you\u2019ve run out of any arguments to make.<\/p>\n

When you start comparing people, your political opposition or your enemies to Hitler, well, then the rejoinder is, “Wow. You really have run out of substantive things to say, right? That\u2019s the easiest thing in the world, just compare him to the worst guy that ever lived, fine and dandy. You got nothing.” That\u2019s the reaction you get. But that\u2019s not the reaction Obama got. When Obama did it, Mellody Hobson praised Obama. And this guy Greg Hinz at Crain\u2019s Chicago Business celebrated it.<\/p>\n

In fact, let me read to you the summary of Obama\u2019s comments directed at Trump by this guy Hinz from Crain\u2019s Chicago Business. I\u2019m just gonna read. “Obama moved from that to talking about a nativist mistrust and unease that has swept around the world. He argued that such things as the speed of technical change and the uneven impact of globalization have come too quickly to be absorbed in many cultures, bringing strange new things and people to areas in which ‘people didn\u2019t (used to) challenge your assumptions.\u2019 As a result, ‘nothing feels solid,\u2019 he said. ‘Sadly, there\u2019s something in us that looks for simple answers when we\u2019re agitated.'”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still reading from Greg Hinz here. “Still, the U.S. has survived tough times before and will again, he noted, particularly mentioning the days of communist fighter Joseph McCarthy and former President Richard Nixon. But one reason the country survived is because it had a free press to ask questions.<\/p>\n

“The danger is ‘grow(ing) complacent,\u2019 Obama said. ‘We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else things could fall apart quickly.\u2019 That\u2019s what happened in Germany in the 1930s which, despite the democracy of the Weimar Republic and centuries of high-level cultural and scientific achievements, Adolph Hitler rose to dominate, Obama noted. ‘Sixty million people died. So, you\u2019ve got to pay attention. And vote.'”<\/p>\n

How does anybody not conclude that those remarks are about Trump? Everything Obama claims to be worried about is because of Trump. A newbie that doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing; a newbie that can\u2019t keep up with technological advancement; a newbie that is a nativist; a newbie that\u2019s giving people comfort because they themselves can\u2019t adapt to rapid technological change. That\u2019s another slight to the bitter clingers, no doubt about it.<\/p>\n

So everybody there, at least the media that was present, had no doubt that Obama was talking about Trump in his comparisons to Hitler. We\u2019ll see. Let\u2019s just wait. Let\u2019s just wait and see if this effervesces up to the Drive-By Media. Wasn\u2019t it Obama spying on reporters? From the Associated Press and Fox News, trying to throw \u2019em in jail? Wasn\u2019t it Obama who didn\u2019t trust the media? Despite they were his best friends? Despite they would have done anything for the guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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