{"id":268308,"date":"2018-03-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=268308"},"modified":"2021-04-07T11:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T15:35:40","slug":"trump-tweaks-media-congratulates-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/03\/20\/trump-tweaks-media-congratulates-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Tweaks Media, Congratulates Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The media is beside itself. CNN cannot drop this. McCain, wherever he is, very, very sick. He rallied to come out and rip Trump for this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-268315\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032018-Trump-Talks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032018-Trump-Talks.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032018-Trump-Talks-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>THE PRESIDENT: I had a call with President Putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. The call had to do also with the fact that we will probably get together in the not-too-distant future so that we can discuss arms, we could discuss the arms race. We are going to remain stronger than any other nation in the world by far. We had a very good call, and I suspect that we\u2019ll probably be meeting in the not-too-distant future to discuss the arms race, which is getting out of control, but we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have. And also to discuss Ukraine and Syria and North Korea and various other things. So I think probably we\u2019ll be seeing President Putin in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So McCain just &#8212; I mean, he was livid, and so were the rest of the Drive-Bys. All of Washington. &#8220;I had a call with President Putin, congratulated him on his victory, his electoral victory,&#8221; as though there was any doubt. Now, I frankly believe &#8212; and I\u2019m telling you, I know Trump better than any media person out there. And I\u2019m telling you, Trump knows what he\u2019s doing here. He\u2019s jamming \u2019em. He\u2019s goosing \u2019em. This is no different than, &#8220;Hey, Russia, if you\u2019re listening, maybe you could find the 33,000 missing Hillary emails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-268314\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032018-Media-Tweak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032018-Media-Tweak.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032018-Media-Tweak-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Trump knows that they\u2019re gonna blow a gasket, and he loves making \u2019em blow their gasket congratulating Putin. These people are all wound up on still on the fact that Trump and Putin colluded to steal the election. So here\u2019s Trump congratulating Putin on his electoral victory. The guy is a tyrant thug dictator. There wasn\u2019t any election. It\u2019s like Fidel Castro\u2019s elections or Saddam Hussein\u2019s elections. Got 99% of the vote and the 1% are shot. Trump knows this. He\u2019s just tweaking \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>But McCain, this just isn\u2019t something that\u2019s done. Civilized members of the establishment, of the swamp, simply do not congratulate tyrants and dictators for winning elections. It\u2019s just not who we are. As Obama would say (impression), &#8220;This is not who we are. This is not our values.&#8221; Except when Obama was congratulating them, then it was perfectly fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I&#039;m telling you, I know Trump better than any media person out there. 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