RUSH: Guess who has vanished from the front pages, from the top of the fold, from the lead story on all cable news? You can\u2019t find the name Brett Kavanaugh anywhere today. Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s gone. I mean, no coverage whatsoever. The Drive-Bys are totally distracted once again by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
You know, I have a question. It\u2019s a very simple question. When are these people gonna figure Trump out? It\u2019s been a year and a half now. Why do they keep acting surprised by the way Trump gets things done? And that\u2019s, I think, the root of it right there is that Trump gets things done!<\/p>\n
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These people, the Drive-Bys predominantly, keep waiting for Trump to step in it. They hope it, they pray it, just like they got up every day and maybe still do, hoping for that smoking gun piece of evidence that links Trump and Putin and collusion and stealing the election. So every time Trump ventures out, they hope and they pray that Trump is gonna step in it. And it causes the news media to write stories that are packed with lies about how Trump has stepped in it.<\/p>\n
The most recent example, the U.K. Sun with a totally distorted story about how Trump supposedly dissed the prime minister of the U.K., Theresa May. Before that, we had all kinds of stories about how Trump was walking all over these nice people at NATO and was doing them great damage and doing great damage to the alliance because Trump demanded this and Trump demanded that.<\/p>\n
Now, yesterday before we lost the ability to get the program out of the building here, I was watching Christiane Amanpour desperately interview this poor guy that runs NATO, Jens Jenserstein [sic] or whatever his name is, I don\u2019t remember his name. Trump\u2019s was out there saying that he got NATO members to agree to eventually get to a point where they\u2019re all contributing 4% of their GDP to defense, which is how NATO, quote, unquote, dues are tabulated.<\/p>\n
And she didn\u2019t believe Trump was telling the truth. So she\u2019s interviewing this guy, and she went at him every which way to try to get him to admit that Trump was lying, that Trump\u2019s numbers are wrong, that these member nations were only committing to spend maybe 2%.<\/p>\n
And the guy would not give her what she wanted, and she got really ticked off about it because in her world, she and him are buddies. The guy that runs NATO and Christiane Amanpour buddies. They\u2019re on the same team. They\u2019re practically diplomats together. And they\u2019ve got their roles. She\u2019s in the media; he\u2019s in the diplomatic hallways of the EU.<\/p>\n
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But he wouldn\u2019t be forthcoming with her because he ended up saying that we ended up unified, everything is fine, we had some frank discussions and NATO has never been stronger. And every one of these incidents, be it NATO, be it G7, be it Trump talking with Theresa May or anybody in the U.K., they all start out with the same premise because they have invested hope in it that Trump\u2019s gonna step in it, that Trump\u2019s gonna embarrass himself. That means we can get rid of him, see.<\/p>\n
I mean, it\u2019s still all oriented around getting rid of Trump. So they hope he\u2019s gonna step in it, they hope he\u2019s gonna make a fool of himself, they hope that he is gonna embarrass himself and the country and they hope that all of these international leaders are gonna go to the microphones and talk about what a dunderhead, blithering idiot Trump is.<\/p>\n
So they write their stories suggesting that that happened or an element of it happened. And then when the event is over, all of these world leaders, be it the G7, the G20, Kim Jong-un, NATO, they all end up singing Trump\u2019s praises and thanking him for helping them to see clearly and get it right. And Theresa May did that today in their joint press conference at Checkers, which is in Buckinghamshire, which is not far from Windsor and Windsor Castle, which is where Trump is right now having tea with the queen.<\/p>\n
He arrived there about four minutes after the hour. They\u2019re now having their little confab. I\u2019m given to understand Windsor Castle is the queen\u2019s favorite. Of the 25 or 30 castles that she owns around the world, I think Windsor is her favorite. Been told that. (interruption) Now, why are you laughing about that? Well, it might just be 10 or 15. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s 25 or 30. How many castles do you have? That\u2019s the point. How many castles do you have? She\u2019s got castles.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s got Balmoral up in Scotland. She\u2019s got Buckingham Palace, and that\u2019s about five castles rolled into one. Well, I was just gonna say, something I\u2019ve not seen here before. I\u2019ve seen the queen receive U.S. presidents. I\u2019ve never seen a white tent outside the building and I\u2019ve never seen the queen standing there for 10, 15 minutes waiting for the guy\u2019s helicopter to land. I\u2019m stunned at this. I\u2019m thinking, okay, she\u2019s inside and she\u2019s got aids around here telling her, \u201cFive minutes out, Your Majesty, 10 minutes out, Your Majesty,\u201d and she\u2019s sitting there fidgeting.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s outside and she\u2019s standing there talking to some of her underlings. She\u2019s actually talking to \u2019em and passing the time, 10, 15 minutes before Trump\u2019s helicopter lands. Never seen that before.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think, actually, when you look at the Drive-Bys and their panicked reaction over NATO and Trump and U.K. and all this, I think it\u2019s kind of like their reaction to Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not Kavanaugh they\u2019re really afraid of. It\u2019s the Constitution they\u2019re objecting to<\/a>. Kavanaugh simply is a guy that\u2019s gonna enforce it. That\u2019s what they can\u2019t abide. With Trump, there is a lot of personal hatred. But it\u2019s not what\u2019s driving this. What\u2019s driving this is that Trump beat them, is that somebody like Trump beat them, is that somebody had the audacity to beat them from outside. And not only that, after that happened, he continued to fight \u2019em and has continued to win!<\/p>\n That\u2019s not permissible! That just cannot be allowed to continue! “But, Rush, but, Rush, what if the country improves in the process?” That makes it even worse! The country\u2019s not supposed to get better when these people aren\u2019t running it! It\u2019s not supposed to happen that some outsider, amateur political guy can come in and, in a year and a half, demonstrate that these people don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing and that he does; they can\u2019t permit that to happen.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>They can\u2019t permit the American people to conclude that. They have to continue to dirty up Donald Trump, to sully Donald Trump, to impugn Donald Trump. They cannot permit people to think that he knows what he\u2019s doing, that he\u2019s good, that he\u2019s accomplished, and that he is succeeding. They\u2019re nowhere near shutting this down. And that goes for all of the people in the same group in Europe. They just don\u2019t know how.<\/p>\n