{"id":258669,"date":"2017-12-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=258669"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T21:12:51","slug":"trump-promised-to-work-hard-for-you-and-hes-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/20\/trump-promised-to-work-hard-for-you-and-hes-doing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Promised to Work Hard for You &#8212; And He\u2019s Doing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Trump was explaining to people in the cabinet meeting when this is all gonna go into effect and how it\u2019s gonna happen and here\u2019s the first of the three bites.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: The heart of our bill is a tremendous amount of relief for the middle-class, including a doubling of the child tax credit and the nearly doubling of the standard deduction. That\u2019s going to be tremendous to people. They\u2019re going to start seeing the results in February. This bill means more take-home pay. It will be an incredible Christmas gift for hard-working Americans. I said I wanted to have it done before Christmas. We got it done.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, as I said in the previous hour, the Drive-Bys are trying to say that since this thing just got done, this is gonna lead to a big hangover. Got so much done that they\u2019re gonna not be able to replicate this. Don\u2019t look for anything of any major importance. Next year\u2019s an election year. Trump can\u2019t afford to take any chances. So this is pretty much all you\u2019re gonna get. The lying, the distortions, the mischaracterizations know no end. Well, contrast that to Trump\u2019s next sound bite here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-258703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TrumpTaxCut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TrumpTaxCut.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TrumpTaxCut-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>THE PRESIDENT: We\u2019re restoring immigration enforcement at levels that our country has never seen before and taking the fight to the criminal gangs like MS-13 where we\u2019re decimating those animals. They\u2019re animals. What they do is horrible. Horrible. And we\u2019re making the immigration system work for Americans. But we\u2019re cleaning out towns of those MS-13 gangsters. That\u2019s why we\u2019re calling on Congress to fund the border wall which we\u2019re getting very close to.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, border wall, oh, no, they forgot about that. Trump\u2019s gonna move on to the border wall. But what about the hangover? What about taking time off? What about reveling in the achievement here? They\u2019re not gonna be able to keep up. You know one thing I keep remembering from the campaign? It\u2019s one of the things that Trump said frequently that always hit me and registered with me, and I think Trump voters heard it, too. And it was nothing that he made a major point of saying. When he said this, it was almost as an afterthought or continuation of a major point that he had made.<\/p>\n<p>And it was nothing more than, &#8220;We are going to work so hard for you.&#8221; He was talking about whoever he put in his cabinet and his entire administration. He would make a major point about some achievement that he was gonna do. And he\u2019d follow it up as the applause was deafening. &#8220;We are gonna work so hard for you.&#8221; And I don\u2019t know how many of the opposition paid any mind to it, paid any attention to it, even noticed it, but I did.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was in those kind of off-the-cuff, off-hand moments that you get the unbridled, unprotected honesty. And it was the way Trump was telling these people at the rally how he was different and who he was. &#8220;We are going to work so hard for you.&#8221; This would come after an explanation of doing the wall or fixing trade deals or something.<\/p>\n<p>And he would say it realizing that he had just laid out an enormous agenda. I mean, every rally contained pretty much every agenda item. And before long, it occurred that this is a lot. This guy is gonna cut taxes, he\u2019s gonna repeal Obamacare, he\u2019s going to build a wall, he\u2019s going to reinforce the borders, gonna do new trade deals, gonna get us out of the U.N., all this &#8212; I mean, a massive amount of stuff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-258681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-122017-Trust-in-Trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-122017-Trust-in-Trump.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-122017-Trust-in-Trump-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>And as he would go through it at each rally, occasionally he would say &#8212; while the applause is ringing out and deafening, &#8220;We are gonna work so hard for you.&#8221; And this is an example of it. Makes a promise to not forget about doing the wall while the left is thinking, &#8220;Oh, my God. How do we stop this? How do we change people\u2019s minds on this?&#8221; &#8216;Cause, folks, do not doubt me. They\u2019re in a state of panic over this.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been through this, the left has, we all have in the 1980s. They know this works. They know this illustrates the lies that they tell. They know this illustrates the folly of socialism and their beliefs. They have to try to destroy it in your mind. They have to try mischaracterize it. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re in a state of panic. And now not one of them can say they voted for it while we\u2019re in the midst of booming economy next year, not one of them can claim any credit for it. &#8216;Cause every one of the Democrats voted &#8220;no&#8221; on this. Here is Trump making a point, serious point here of something that is included in this tax reform.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means Obamacare is being repealed, because they get their money from the individual mandate. So the individual mandate is being repealed. So in this bill, not only do we have massive tax cuts and tax reform, we have essentially repealed Obamacare, and we\u2019ll come up with something that will be much better.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So we\u2019re gonna fix the health care system, too. We just did tax reform, we\u2019re gonna build a wall, oh, and, by the way, we\u2019re gonna circle back and we\u2019re gonna fix health care. We\u2019re gonna do it all. We\u2019re gonna make America great again.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t changed a bit. The agenda is the agenda. He\u2019s moving forward on it. He\u2019s had a greater first year in moving an agenda against more odds than have ever been arrayed against a sitting president, he\u2019s had more success than any Republican you can name. You\u2019d have to throw Reagan in that conversation. But it is astounding, it\u2019s phenomenal, and I\u2019m gonna go back to that speech that he gave on Monday that I wanted to get to yesterday and didn\u2019t. I\u2019ve got the bites here, we\u2019re gonna go back to it, \u2019cause all of this flows together. All of it just flows together.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s right, you gut Obamacare by getting rid of the individual mandate. The individual mandate\u2019s how it\u2019s paid for. Making everybody buy a government approved health insurance policy, that\u2019s how Obamacare\u2019s paid for. If you gut that &#8212; and it\u2019s gutted, it\u2019s gone! The Democrats can\u2019t stop it. The House and Senate have passed the bill. It\u2019s a mere formality now \u2019til Trump signs it. The individual mandate is gone, and with it the guts of Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>Now, not all of Obamacare. When I say &#8220;the guts,&#8221; the mechanisms that actually make it work. It\u2019s going to lead to an even more rapid implosion of Obamacare, what with the mandate vanishing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-256901 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-120517-Pelosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-120517-Pelosi.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-120517-Pelosi-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Now, Nancy Pelosi. Wasn\u2019t it just a month or so ago Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats were all saying that all of the Founding Fathers were racist slave owners and all of their beliefs mirrored their era and they\u2019re not relevant today and that we shouldn\u2019t be paying any attention to the Founding Fathers and taking down some of these statues that we\u2019re taking down is perfectly fine? Anybody remember this?<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi and the left all during last year, I mean, it wasn\u2019t just a month ago, yeah, but even further back than that, all the way back to Charlottesville, any of the things that the left thinks are seminal identification moments. &#8220;Our Founding Fathers, they\u2019re a bunch of racist slave owners. They\u2019re not worth being idolized today. I mean, yeah, they were good for their time and good for their day, but their beliefs only mirrored their era, and they\u2019re not relevant today,&#8221; which is part of the argument that the Constitution should live and breathe and change. Meaning we should be able to get rid of the Second Amendment because we want to and all of that.<\/p>\n<p>Now the morning after the tax cuts bill passes, she says that it does violence to the vision of our founders. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck You Schumer, the Democrats wouldn\u2019t know a founding vision if it hit \u2019em upside the head. &#8220;This GOP tax scam is simply theft &#8212; monumental, brazen theft from the American middle class and from every person who aspires to reach it,&#8221; Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The GOP tax scam is not a vote for an investment in growth or jobs. It is a vote to install a permanent plutocracy in our nation. They\u2019ll be cheering that later. It does violence to the vision of our Founders. It disrespects the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Folks, do you believe the degree of panic over this? Not to mention the lies.<br \/>\nFauxcahontas, Elizabeth Warren, called the tax bill a heist. Now Pelosi, &#8220;The GOP tax scam is simply theft, monumental, brazen theft from the American middle class.&#8221; So you know what they\u2019re back to saying? This is a tax cut for the rich. It\u2019s a tax increase for the middle class, and it\u2019s a tax cut to the rich.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have been out there my whole life trying convince people the rich got rich by stealing money from the poor. And I have never understood the mathematics on that. But here\u2019s Pelosi continuing it. Eighty percent of the American people are going to get a tax cut. Now, when Pelosi utters these lies and these insane inanities, there\u2019s not a single question raised by the Drive-By Media. She\u2019s not asked to explain it.<\/p>\n<p>What happens is that the Drive-Bys go to the nearest Republican they can find and they ask questions using Pelosi\u2019s talking points. They don\u2019t say, &#8220;Well, Nancy Pelosi says that this is theft.&#8221; The Drive-Bys say, &#8220;Well, this looks like theft to us. It looks like your tax cut is actually stealing money from the poor and the middle class and giving it to the rich.&#8221; They just start reflecting and repeating Democrat talking points as their questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It was the way Trump was telling these people at the rally how he was different and who he was.  &quot;We are going to work so hard for you.&quot;  This would come after an explanation of doing the wall or fixing trade deals or something.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":258682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Promised to Work Hard for You - And He&#039;s Doing It - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/20\/trump-promised-to-work-hard-for-you-and-hes-doing-it\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Trump Promised to Work Hard for You - And He&#039;s Doing It - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: It was the way Trump was telling these people at the rally how he was different and who he was. &quot;We are going to work so hard for you.&quot; 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