{"id":260269,"date":"2018-01-12T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=260269"},"modified":"2018-01-15T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T21:01:12","slug":"trump-blows-up-the-daca-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/01\/12\/trump-blows-up-the-daca-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Blows Up the DACA Deal with One Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay, so we all know what\u2019s being discussed out there today in the Drive-By Media and so forth. And rather than join the fray and try to crack jokes about it and get in on it, because everybody else is doing that, I want to look at the practical result of this.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back a couple of days when Trump had that meeting in the White House that was televised. How many of you thought you were witnessing the beginning of a sellout? Come on. Be honest. How many of you got worried that Trump was getting ready to make a deal with the Democrats?<\/a> Snerdley\u2019s raising his hand in there.<\/p>\n

\"\"I know a lot of people on our side were very worried. You know, intelligence guided by experience. We are used to being sold out by people we elect. And Trump\u2019s been under intense pressure and criticism for three years, and we\u2019ve all heard that Trump wants to be loved and gotten along with by everybody and so that looked like to a lot of people he was getting ready to cave because whatever idea the Democrats put forward, he said, “Yeah, we could do that. Yeah, that sounds good.” Dianne Feinstein, “I want a clean DACA bill, clean DREAMer bill.”<\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah, we could do that.” And Kevin McCarthy, Republican leader in the House, “No, no, no, Mr. President, that deal doesn\u2019t come with any security.” So people thought, “Oh, my gosh, he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing.” Once again, Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, when in fact Donald Trump knows exactly what he\u2019s doing. Donald Trump knows precisely what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n

I guarantee you the Democrats walked out of that meeting at the White House that was televised salivating. I guarantee you they walked out of that thinking that they were on the verge of getting a deal on two things: the DREAMers, the DACA kids, and comprehensive immigration reform. And, lo and behold, they show up at the White House yesterday with their proposal for a new DACA deal and it is the worst thing in the world. It is absolutely abhorrent. It is nothing that you or anybody with common sense would support.<\/p>\n

And what did Donald Trump do? He blew the whole thing up with one question, with one question he blew it up. And you know what the question was? Forget the words used. The question was: Why do you people on the Democrat side want to continue to bring people to this country that are not going to benefit this country? Why instead do you not want to bring the best and brightest of the world to this country? Why is it that you think that we need to bring people to this country who are incapable of helping themselves?<\/p>\n

And of course we know the answer. Because Jennifer Palmieri of the Center for American Progress let the cat out of the bag earlier this week by admitting something that we all knew, and that is that the Democrats\u2019 version of immigration is all about securing additional votes. She let the cat out of the bag, and that\u2019s what they were going up doing, and Trump knows it. That leaked memo from Jennifer Palmieri that DACA was key to the Democrats getting power back through elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They were feeling empowered after that meeting. They thought they had Trump at a weakened moment, and they show up and they present this to him. And his reaction, forget the word that he used, or is alleged to have used, the terms or what have you, you can have your thought on that or not. But his question to them was essentially, “Why in the world do you look at this issue as something that is not helpful to this country? It\u2019s only helpful to you.”<\/p>\n

And so the whole DACA deal is blown sky-high now, which is a good thing! And the whole idea that we\u2019re gonna get comprehensive immigration reform someday soon, meaning amnesty for everybody, is blown to smithereens now, which is a good thing. Why is it that the Democrats want countries — me rephrase it. Why is it the Democrats want and make the case for illegal immigration from impoverished countries? Do they not say, by virtue of the fact we need to let them here, and do they not say by virtue of we can\u2019t deport them, are they not saying that their countries of origin are not worth going back to?<\/p>\n

The Democrats do not want to deport them back to their original countries. Why? They\u2019re war-torn. They are in strife. They are poverty racked. They are hellholes<\/a>. They are places of tyranny and oppression. The Democrats do not want to deport them, they say, because they\u2019re going back to absolute, horrible places.<\/p>\n

Trump said, “Why do you want them in the first place?” And then he threw in “Why not people from Norway?” Well, of course that caused another conniption fit, because then the Democrats in the room, “A-ha. He\u2019s a racist. He\u2019s a pig. He\u2019s a racist. We knew it.” And now they can\u2019t stop talking about it. They offend me far more than Donald Trump does.<\/p>\n

\"\"These people in the media are a bunch of the biggest phony baloneys on this planet acting like they don\u2019t talk this way. They think this way about Mississippi. They think this way about the American south. They think this way about flyover country. We learned yesterday that a bunch of engineers at Twitter are coming up with 5,000 keywords to identify rednecks which is of course not a complimentary term for people who live in the South in this country.<\/p>\n

But this moral preening by all these people in the media like they\u2019re never thought that word, they\u2019ve never used that word, they would never utter that word, that\u2019s what galls me. I can\u2019t stand this phony supremacy and superiority that these people project, as though anybody who does think or talk that way is somehow subhuman, a reprobate, or other things. The bottom line here is that the president of the United States was presented with an absolute rotten deal.<\/p>\n

He may have thought, by the way — and I\u2019m just surmising — he may have thought that after that meeting that he was gonna get a modicum of cooperation. And then he sees what they bring to him, which I will detail in a minute — but what they brought to him doesn\u2019t change anything. What they brought to him is nothing other than a political benefit for themselves, as leaked by Jennifer Palmieri, that DACA and the DREAMer kids are all about securing future voters for the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

So maybe Trump\u2019s thinking that after the meeting we\u2019re gonna get some sort of compromise everybody can work with, and they show up and they present him an absolute disaster of a bill. And the regular guy he is, he looks at it and says, “Why in the world…? Why in the world do you continue to want to flood this country with people who are not going to benefit the country?” You know, immigration… Every American policy we have is supposed to be rooted in improving our country. Why does immigration…?<\/p>\n

Why do the Democrats insist on an immigration system that ends up being a burden to this country? That\u2019s not what it\u2019s supposed to be. And Trump looks at what they proposed and instinctively understood that this is rotten, that this is not anywhere near making America great again. Do the Democrats believe that only people in poverty, that only people from war-torn or tyrannical regimes…? Are they the only people that should be given preferential treatment to come to the United States? Is it because they\u2019re the oppressed?<\/p>\n

\"\"Remember, the Democrats want these people as voters. The Democrats need a permanent underclass. Donald Trump is looking at all of this. Every bit of his agenda as aimed at making America great again. It\u2019s not just a slogan with him. So when you strip away all the wording and all of the histrionics and this overblown and offended, “Oh, my God,” reaction to what he said… When you look at the substance… There\u2019s a column here by Scott Greer at The Daily Caller. The headline is right on the money: “Trump Blows up the Immigration Debate with Just One Question<\/a> —<\/p>\n

“President Trump may have just nuked negotiations on an immigration deal with one question. ‘Why are we having all these people from [bleep-bleep] countries come here?\u2019 Trump was reported to say during a Thursday meeting with congressional leaders on making a deal to give legalization to the so-called DREAMers,” who are scheduled to be deported in March. “Trump made his comments in response to proposals to prevent the deportation of thousands of foreign nationals from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries who are dwelling in the U.S. on Temporary Protected Status,” since 2001.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve had 17, 18 years of temporary status. They\u2019re about to be sent back home. The Democrats are in a panic over this. These very refugees — these very people from Haiti, from Africa, from El Salvador — they\u2019re telling us, “They can\u2019t go back to their countries \u2019cause their countries are too poor. Their countries are too dangerous. There\u2019s just too many drugs! There\u2019s too much violence.” In other words, because their countries are hellholes!<\/p>\n

So naturally the comment irritates lawmakers, upsets them, and now the Democrats probably not gonna want to be seen making a deal with the president who just said some of their voters come from hellhole countries. Now, I don\u2019t know about you, but I don\u2019t want to make a deal with these people. I want to defeat these people. I don\u2019t want to compromise with these people because these people are simply looking for ways to bloat the federal voter registration rolls in various states. And you want to have some evidence of this? You know, Dick Durbin?<\/p>\n

Dick Durbin was in the meeting. Dick Durbin is back in Chicago. He was interviewed on TV today, and he was confirming that Trump said what he said. Trump denied using that exact language. There\u2019s some people who are saying that it wasn\u2019t “holes.” It was “houses” that Trump said. But, anyway, it doesn\u2019t matter. Dick Durbin\u2019s out there saying, “I was there! I heard it! I was appalled. I was outraged. I was this; I was that.<\/a>” This is the guy who was accusing members of the U.S. military of being like Pol Pot and Hitler, and if you\u2019re curious about that, stand by. The audio sound bite\u2019s coming up.<\/p>\n

But listen to this. Grab audio sound bite number 5. Just listen to this…<\/p>\n

\"\"DURBIN: When it came to the issue of, quote, “chain migration,” I said to the president, “Do you realize how painful that term is to so many people? African-Americans believe that they migrated to America in chains and when you speak about ‘chain migration,\u2019 it hurts them personally?” He said, “Oh, that\u2019s a good line.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you kidding?<\/p>\n

DURBIN: And then when I talked to him about the impact this has on family unification in a nation that values families with the flag as the most important symbols of our future, they scoffed at this notion. It was a heartbreaking moment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you think these people aren\u2019t the most phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 rollers. Chain migration is impermissible to use because it reminds Africans of how they arrived here as slaves? It has never… It has never reminded… Chain migration is a specific term that specifically and correctly identifies how one illegal immigrant arriving can create a chain of migration for four or five or more others. It is an official term. It has never been associated with Africans arriving as slaves.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s Dick Durbin. Do you think Dick Durbin really is offended by any words such as that which Trump supposedly used? Do you think these guys are offended by it? Do you think these Drive-Bys are really offended by it? They\u2019re not. This is nothing more than political opportunism. The thing that really irritates \u2019em, too… CNN had a story just moments ago that Trump is reveling in the controversy here, that he loves it, and that\u2019s irritated \u2019em. And then Trump signed a proclamation today for the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Day.<\/p>\n

That burned \u2019em up \u2019cause members of the King family and civil rights leaders were there, and they all were thanking Trump for everything he\u2019s doing to honor Martin Luther King, and there wasn\u2019t one word of criticism from any of the African-Americans in the Oval Office about Trump\u2019s supposed comments. So the meeting ends and these reporters are shouting at Trump:<\/p>\n

“What about (bleep) hole? What about (bleep) hole? What about (bleep) hole?” in the august setting for a 50th anniversary proclamation honoring Martin Luther King was signed by President Trump. These people, once again, are over the top, demonstrating they haven\u2019t learned a single thing about Donald Trump. And you should take solace in the fact I told you he wasn\u2019t gonna cave. I told you he was not gonna cave and do a deal with these people.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I do not believe that this media, which is the midst of another major meltdown… I do not believe that they are offended at all with what Trump said. I think all it is to them and the reason they\u2019re melting down, the reason they can\u2019t contain themselves is — to them — it\u2019s just the latest opportunity to get rid of him. They live for it. Remember, folks — do not doubt me on this — the media gets up every day hoping, praying, dreaming, thinking that that day something is going to surface or happen that will end up being the silver bullet that gets rid of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Every day. And they\u2019ve been getting up every day for over a year since Trump won the election, hoping. This is just the latest in their hopes and dreams that something will happen they can use to get rid of Trump. So now CNN and MSNBC and all of these revered Tiffany networks are using a word constantly that is certainly improper under anybody\u2019s broadcast standards. It is they who are the phonies here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The big picture today — and I think the media gets this, and I think it\u2019s one of the reasons they\u2019re ticked off. Donald Trump blew up a Democrat dream of amnesty for DREAMers. With one question, with one word, he blew it sky-high, and with that question, he refocused the nation\u2019s look at immigration, legal and otherwise. And I want to remind you, this is me from Tuesday, three days ago on this program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE: [I]f you\u2019re wary that Trump is gonna cave, I don\u2019t see it. He knows this is what got him elected. And not only that, he believes this. He understands this. Maybe he doesn\u2019t understand it ideologically, who knows, but he understands that open borders and the never-ending parade of illegal immigrants does nothing to build the national economy or the American culture.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it\u2019s key understand what he meant by that question. Why do you people want to continue to import people that are going to end up placing a burden on our population? Why? If we\u2019re going to have an immigration policy, why don\u2019t we seek the best? Why do you people purposely want to go out and bring people in who are gonna end up being a burden? Now, you can define that as not learning English, not being able to have a job, being on the social safety welfare net, however you want to define it.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s what he means, because that\u2019s precisely what the Democrats want to do. That\u2019s exactly what they want to do, because they\u2019re not humanitarian. This is not about compassion. This is not about love and a soft spot for people from these horrible places and wanting to give them a better life. This is about registering a bunch of future Democrat voters that are never gonna be able to fend or provide for themselves. This is about flooding this country with people who are going to be forever dependent on a government-run by Democrats.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all it is to them.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why this phony sanctimony over being offended by the use of a word<\/a> that they disagree with and say is unpresidential… It wasn\u2019t unpresidential what Bill Clinton was doing the Oval Office. No, no, no. They all tried to cover that up, and they all tried to say that was nobody\u2019s business. And of course, when Barack Obama is lying through his teeth to the American people about their health care plans and systems and when he\u2019s lying to the American people about not wanting to make sure the Iranians get nuclear weapons?<\/p>\n

Look, there\u2019s a lot of stuff that has gone on in this country that should have offended the Drive-By Media if they are this group that cares so deeply about their country and America\u2019s people. But that\u2019s not what they care about. Now, I want to do a little test. I want to go back to that fateful day in 2015, June the 16th, Trump Tower. Donald Trump and the future first lady, Melania Trump, are descending the giant escalator where Trump will announce his candidacy for the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n