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But don\u2019t switch it yet.<\/p>\nRUSH: Are you aware of the latest attempt by the Drive-Bys to portray Donald Trump as vacant, stupid, dumb and empty minded because his desk doesn\u2019t have anything on it? (interruption) Don\u2019t switch yet.<\/p>\n
Just get ready in there for the switcher.<\/p>\n
But don\u2019t switch it yet.<\/p>\n
Now, this is the second time they\u2019ve done this. I forget how long ago it was, but the Drive-Bys ran a story with a photo of Trump\u2019s very cluttered desk, and the stories that accompanied that photo said — and these were emotional\/psychiatric experts and behavioral experts telling the Drive-Bys, “The cluttered desk means a disorganized, cluttered mind — and this is a danger! To have somebody that appears this haphazard and this disorganized, not knowing where anything is and the mess keeps getting bigger and bigger?<\/p>\n
“It is a perfect metaphor for Donald Trump\u2019s brain in general, and we are all in grave danger and posed a great threat by Trump\u2019s obviously overtaxed mind.” Now, that was some weeks, maybe months ago. Yesterday, the Drive-Bys published a story of Trump sitting at the Oval Office desk wearing a Make America Great Again cap and a white polo golf shirt, and there\u2019s nothing on the desk. The stories accompanying this picture say, “Trump is dangerously empty! His mind is vacant, and he obviously doesn\u2019t do any work. There isn\u2019t anything on his desk.<\/p>\n
“The guy\u2019s a putz. The guy doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, and the evidence is there isn\u2019t anything to do, because he has no work on his desk whatsoever. We are in grave danger!” So I told Cookie, “I want you to go out there and find me — \u2019cause there are many of them. I want you to find me a photo of Ronaldus Magnus at his desk, and we found many. We\u2019re gonna switch to it. If you\u2019re watching on the Dittocam, you\u2019ll see it, because we\u2019re going to switch to it.<\/p>\n
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(switches) There is Ronaldus Magnus right there at his Oval Office desk.<\/p>\n
And, as you can see, the only thing on it is a phone. That\u2019s how Reagan\u2019s desk looked practically all of the time. There were occasional photos where Reagan had documents, individual pieces of paper on the desk that he was reading or signing. But that\u2019s pretty much what it was, because, folks, the Oval Office is ceremonial. The work that gets done in the Oval Office occurs on the sofas. If you\u2019re looking at the picture, the sofas are parallel to each other with a coffee table between them. But really not much work gets done in the Oval.<\/p>\n
Do you know that if you…? Well, this is not for the public tours of the White House, but if I happen to go to the White House and the president wasn\u2019t there, the Oval Office is wide open. They\u2019ll take you there and they show you anything, \u2019cause nothing\u2019s in there. It\u2019s ceremonial. Now, I mean, it\u2019s not part of the public White House tour. I don\u2019t think it is. I don\u2019t think the West Wing is part of the tour. But the work that happens in the West Wing happens in the Cabinet Room or the Roosevelt Room or on the phone.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not a traditional office in the sense… Even bill signings. Some occur there, but not many. They occur in the Rose Garden or a room big enough to get all the congressional cosponsors in there to participate in the photo-op. There are also pictures of the great one, Barack Hussein Obama, with his desk totally empty. I didn\u2019t bother putting any of those up, \u2019cause who wants to look anymore at Obama in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
You talk about shock therapy?<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t need that.<\/p>\n
But don\u2019t doubt me. The idea of a desk… Well, it\u2019s rendered moot anyway because Drive-Bys have gone at this from both angles. Trump, at one point when he was first there, had a lot of stuff on the desk and they said, “This is a cluttered, disorganized mind! We are in grave danger!” Now they\u2019re running a photo with nothing on the desk, “We are in grave danger! Trump don\u2019t know what to do! He\u2019s so stupid, there isn\u2019t any work on his desk. It may mean that his aides don\u2019t trust him to do anything.<\/p>\n
“It may mean that Trump isn\u2019t doing any work whatsoever, which wouldn\u2019t surprise us because we know he\u2019s a blithering idiot.” That\u2019s the news accompanying the photo today by the Drive-By Media. I\u2019m not kidding. (switches) Okay, you can switch back to me now. Oh, they just did. But we could show you pictures of Obama\u2019s desk and George W. Bush. Even right now, Fox is running an interview or a tape of people in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a fireplace in there, and whenever Trump has an official guest, they sit on either side of the fireplace, and the media comes in and they ask stupid questions. Trump gives them the answer, and they get kicked out of there, and they sit around and talk, usually sitting on the sofas. But in terms of it being an office like you and I would have and do a sit-down and do work, not much of that happens because the work of the president occurs many levels, many ways, in many, many different places.<\/p>\n
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In fact, presidents never stop working no matter where they are, just like important radio talk show hosts. No matter where we go, we\u2019re working. Anybody… Most everybody who works is working wherever they go, in their mind. So it\u2019s just another cheap attempt, an obviously flailing-away-at-nothing attempt… (interruption) Well, I was gonna say that, but, you know, I decided to keep this out of the blue dress arena. When I talked about the work that goes on on sofas… Actually, that\u2019s… I haven\u2019t heard of Clinton using a sofas that way.<\/p>\n
In fact, put that picture back up. Put the picture back up. (switches) The door that you see there to the left of the desk, if you open that door, you go to the private dining room, which Obama had turned into a room for his buddies to come in and watch NCAA and NBA basketball. I saw it! Off of that dining room is another little, smaller private study and the private restroom — and that\u2019s where Monica and the cigar were found, on the other side of that door. I was in the Oval Office two weeks after George W. Bush was inaugurated in 2001.<\/p>\n
I was in there with a bunch of Major League Baseball players and their wives. Joe Torre was there, Tom Glavine, and the late great Don Baylor. A bunch of great baseball players. Bush was a huge baseball fan. Everybody there was… I mean, it was just two weeks prior that Bill Clinton was in there, and it was just a few early years from that that room… I mean, everybody was interested in that room because of what went on in there between Clinton and Lewinsky.<\/p>\n
And everybody was just kind of, “Ew! I hate having to think that that\u2019s what happened here. I\u2019m in the Oval Office of the president of the United States and what am I thinking of? Cigars, blue dresses, and interns!” You couldn\u2019t help it. I mean, two weeks prior Clinton and whatever else he was doing was in there. Then you realize Hillary had been waddling in and out of there.<\/p>\n
Presidents change the desk. I think Trump is using Reagan\u2019s desk, if I\u2019m not mistaken. They changed the carpet that\u2019s down on the floor between the two sofas. But, yeah, right through that door is… And it\u2019s a decent size private dining room. You can probably seat eight or more, maybe 12 at the table. But it was used as an NBA theater, NCAA college basketball theater for Obama.<\/p>\n
All right. Thanks. Switch it back to me now. This is why people tune in to the Dittocam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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