RUSH: To show you how this is organized, Chuck Schumer today went to CNN this afternoon with Wolf Blitzer. And Blitzer said, “What do you make of this report that Trump is telling Ivanka and Jared to stay and then going to the chief of staff and asking them to get rid of \u2019em? What do you make of this, Chuck?”<\/p>\n
SCHUMER: We don\u2019t know how much veracity any of this has because different people in the White House tell reporters different things. I will say this. I\u2019ve served under six administrations. I have never seen such chaos, I have never seen such infighting, and it has real results because the president\u2019s positions keep changing. And not only the rest of the world, but Americans are saying, “What kind of leadership is this?” On guns, he changed around completely. On immigration he changed around completely. Who knows what he\u2019ll do on trade tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, see, I think Chuck is missing it. I think all these guys are assigning incompetence to Trump, and I still say that what it really is: their total inability to understand him. He\u2019s not one of them. He comes from outside Washington, D.C. He\u2019s not a denizen of the swamp. And he\u2019s got a totally different way of running his business, i.e., the West Wing, a totally different way of living his life.<\/p>\n
Trump has not lived his life as most politicians do, i.e., faking this and faking that for this photo-op and that photo-op so it doesn\u2019t come back to haunt you 20 years down the road. There\u2019s no phoniness here, compared with much of politics. That\u2019s another thing people don\u2019t like about it, there was a measure of phoniness in everybody in politics, and Trump isn\u2019t. He is what he is. And so this business, “You know, he changed around completely on immigration, changed around completely on guns.”<\/p>\n
Maybe he didn\u2019t. Maybe he was sandbagging you, Chuck. Maybe he was sandbagging you and Dianne Feinstein on immigration from the get-go, and maybe he\u2019s sandbagging you on this gun business.” And on the tariffs, much as I might not like \u2019em, I don\u2019t know why people are that surprised. It was a campaign promise that he made. He said he was gonna do this. And it was all part of the riff that he would get going on in trade and how if other countries didn\u2019t deal with us fairly, then we were gonna give \u2019em a chance, and if they didn\u2019t take advantage of it, he was gonna turn around and wreak havoc on \u2019em.<\/p>\n
So who knows. Will he change his mind on the tariffs tomorrow? If he does, what somebody\u2019s gonna say, like Chuck You, is some adult got a hold of him and shook his holders, “Mr. President, you can\u2019t do it this way.” The objective here is to portray Trump as somebody that doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing and that we\u2019re really in trouble now because there aren\u2019t any adults left, except for Kelly, and Kelly is under fire because he tried to defend Porter, so we can\u2019t trust Kelly, the chief of staff.<\/p>\n
So they want you to believe that your country\u2019s rudderless and that we\u2019re being led — well, we\u2019re not being led. That we\u2019re chaotically bouncing from point to point, position to position, and there\u2019s no real reason or rhyme to anything that\u2019s happening. And I can see how it would look like that to people who think politics is supposed to be a certain way and people in politics are supposed to behave according to a code, and people who are elected president are supposed to behave according to numerous expectations and demands. And that\u2019s how they live. I mean, it\u2019s a club and there is a dress code, there\u2019s a behavioral code, there\u2019s all kinds of secret codes, behavioral and otherwise that determine whether you\u2019re a member in good standing or not.<\/p>\n
Trump doesn\u2019t come from that experience. He doesn\u2019t know the codes, and he pretty much has been an outsider all of his life. Remember, he\u2019s from Queens. He\u2019s not from Manhattan. His dad\u2019s from Queens. He\u2019s not part of the Manhattan development, real estate development community. He\u2019s an interloper there too. If he knew his place, he would have stayed in Queens, and he would have built stuff out there. But he moved into Manhattan, and he became one of the kings of Manhattan. He didn\u2019t respect his place. And so he was hated and reviled and unaccepted by the so-called powers that be for a long time in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
But the idea he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, he\u2019s only got 65% of his agenda accomplished in the first year of his presidency, and there aren\u2019t any other presidents who can say that. And, if you ask me, if you want to find real chaos, turn on CNN. If you want to find real chaos, turn on The View on ABC, or turn on PMSNBC, or turn on any of the network nightly newscasts and just watch these people report the news.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s they who are unhinged, and it\u2019s they, them, who are acting crazily, as though they are in the midst of chaos that they don\u2019t understand. And if they don\u2019t understand it, then it must obviously be wrong. And there\u2019s another thing to point out. This really isn\u2019t new.<\/p>\n
When Ronaldus Magnus was president — and I realize this was long enough ago that some of you in the audience were not even alive, some of you were too young to remember it. But do not doubt me when I tell you that much the same type of allegation was made against Ronald laying, that he was this out of control, unserious conservative, and he posed a great threat to the world because he might launch nukes against these communists.<\/p>\n
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He was a mad, radical anti-communist, and it was Ronald Reagan who endangered the world. You can look it up if you want. You don\u2019t have to. Do not doubt me. It was Ronald Reagan according to the Drive-By Media, the Sam Donaldsons and the Dan Rathers and the Cokie Roberts of the day, it was Ronald Reagan who threatened the world order.<\/p>\n
And Reagan did things that Trump does. Reagan went in to record a Saturday morning radio addresses. During a mic check, he said, “Testing, three, two, one. The bombing starts in five minutes.” And of course the media found out about it, and they wanted to commit him to an insane asylum. “My God. What if the Russians heard that? He could have started a nuclear war!”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s no different than Trump saying, “Hey, Russia, can you find Hillary\u2019s emails?” They don\u2019t have a sense of humor, particularly when they\u2019re the butt of the jokes. But it was Mikhail Gorbachev who was going to save the world from Ronald Reagan, all through both terms, folks. It was Mikhail Gorbachev that the media and the Democrats in this country invested total faith.<\/p>\n
Teddy Kennedy, Senator Kennedy we found out when the KGB was overturned, found their files after the Berlin Wall went down, Teddy Kennedy had written numerous letters to Soviet leaders asking them to be patient and to not take Reagan seriously and don\u2019t listen to him. He\u2019s only temporary. Ted Kennedy and the rest of the country would get rid of Reagan soon enough and relationship would resume its normal status.<\/p>\n
It was traitorous! You had the lion of the Senate in the Democrat Party sending letters to the Soviet leadership warning them, “Don\u2019t take Reagan seriously and don\u2019t be threatened. We\u2019ve got him under control.” It\u2019s no different than what they\u2019re doing with Trump. Maybe a little bit more intense and more consistent and louder. It\u2019s the same thing. And they did it with George W. Bush in the sense that he was stupid, couldn\u2019t talk, world leaders didn\u2019t respect him.<\/p>\n
They do this every time there is a Republican in the Oval Office. But Trump is getting it like nobody ever has because he shouldn\u2019t have won. I mean, the greatest insult to these people, the media, the Democrats, and the world, is that they could not beat this guy. They haven\u2019t gotten over it, and they never will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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