That Trump in public, like in a joint press conference, is much different (we only learn this later, though) than the Trump in these private negotiations. Look at what happened with Theresa May in the U.K., for example. Apparently in the private negotiations, Trump was told her everything in the world she\u2019s doing wrong on this Brexit business and offered her some assistance and some advice and some help on getting this done right, because Theresa May, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, is trying to get out of Brexit.<\/p>\n
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She\u2019s part of the crowd that doesn\u2019t think they ought leave the European Union, and she\u2019s trying to arrange what\u2019s called a “soft Brexit,” which means really no exit from the European Union at all. This is in utter defiance of the expressed will of the citizens of the U.K. by virtue of their votes. She\u2019s in deep doo-doo even with some of her own cabinet over this, and Trump privately tried to advise her about it. That then produced that story in the U.K. Sun featuring all these details about how Trump disrespected her and Trump mocked her and Trump this and Trump that — and then Trump had the audacity to go sit in Winston Churchill\u2019s easy chair!<\/p>\n
Of course that\u2019s somehow outrageously offensive, but Barack Obama sending the Churchill bust packing out of the Oval Office when he became president? That\u2019s not a big deal. ” That\u2019s understandable. Obama wouldn\u2019t like Churchill. Obama doesn\u2019t like colonialism, and that\u2019s what the Brits did. Churchill is leading light, one of the leading figures, so get rid of the bust!” So here\u2019s Trump sitting in the Churchill\u2019s chair and they went bonkers. But then in the press conference that followed, Trump was as open, supportive, nice, sweet toward Theresa May as he could be.<\/p>\n
Okay. So let\u2019s move that forward to today where there was a much longer bilateral negotiation than was forecast. Originally, an hour had been set aside for deep talks between Trump, Putin, and their aides. Of course, the Drive-Bys in advance said, “This is really bad! Trump ought not go in there by himself. Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s gonna be doing. Trump is outclassed. Trump is gonna be eaten up and spit out. Trump is a disaster. Trump shouldn\u2019t be sitting alone with this KGB officer! It\u2019s a dumb thing to do. Trump\u2019s an idiot. Oh, my God.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re gonna get killed; we\u2019re all gonna die,” whatever it was. Trump and Putin had their meeting, and they were not alone. They each had translators and aides and our ambassador, Jon Huntsman, was in there and so forth. Crimea and a bunch of other things comes up. We don\u2019t know yet what happened. Haven\u2019t been any leaks. We don\u2019t know yet what happened in the private talks. But now we come to the joint press conference and, “Oh, look how nice Trump is and look how unoffensive Trump is.<\/p>\n
“Look how Trump doesn\u2019t want to say anything to offend Putin.” Look, folks. Trump behind the scenes is a much different person than the Trump we see in these joint pressers, and I think some of it is manners. I know that may be sophistry to many of you because… Well, not many of you, but many people don\u2019t even think Trump has manners because they don\u2019t think Trump has any class. But he does. He\u2019s a perfect gentleman when he wants to be and can be. But look what he\u2019s up against. He\u2019s over here in Helsinki, and he has to give Putin the opportunity to shine.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure that Trump judged for whatever reason — and we don\u2019t know yet — that it would be very advantageous for Putin to shine. Now, one of the aspects of that — and I know some of you are gonna laugh at this or maybe get offended, but it\u2019s a factor. Putin is a short guy, and he does too compensate for it with a bunch of macho outward appearances like the shirtless look on the back of the horse and all that. But this is by no means over, and we know that Trump will get tough if he hasn\u2019t already, like he did in England, like he did with the NATO people<\/a>.<\/p>\n That Trump wants to be Putin, that Trump wants to be an oligarch-autocrat, that Trump wants to have that kind of power that Putin\u2019s got, that he\u2019s envious of Putin. So, therefore, he kisses up to Putin, and he goes soft on Putin. They recall believe this. But Trump is about one thing: Making America great, restoring America, having America win. That\u2019s Trump\u2019s objective, overall. How he gets there is not that hard to decipher, and yet people refuse to learn it. People refuse to see it, when it\u2019s a pattern that you can deduce after every such meeting that Trump has.<\/p>\n So let\u2019s just wait and find out what went on behind closed doors in the two-hour meeting that was only supposed to be one, and don\u2019t… By the way, don\u2019t get distracted by all of this talk of whether Trump confronted Putin on them meddling. Do you realize when these two get together, what a minor point that is? None of this… Even if it were as bad and as real as theme want to believe, it\u2019s not gonna be solved in a meeting like this. You\u2019re not gonna have Putin come out and say (impression), “You know what?<\/p>\n “President Trump was very insistent that we stop spying and I like President Trump and he really told me the way it is, so we are going to stop meddling in your elections.” That\u2019s not gonna happen, and Trump\u2019s not gonna sit there… Like Obama didn\u2019t tell Putin to “cut it out.” He just said that he did. Can you actually see these people in the meeting Putin and Obama in a meeting and Trump says (impression), “Look, you know what? I\u2019ve had it with you and our election. Cut it out!” It didn\u2019t happen!<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t happen between leaders at this level. It is a minor point compared to everything else going on. But to the media it\u2019s the only thing that matters because that\u2019s how they\u2019re gonna get rid of Trump, which they still haven\u2019t decided to give up on. So to them the only thing that matters is what happened over Russian meddling, and did Trump call Putin out or did he not? Because if they can report that Trump didn\u2019t call Putin out, then they can report that Trump may be in on it, or that Putin might have blackmailable material on Trump.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why they have lost all respect. It\u2019s why they become a laughingstock. They\u2019re singularly focused on something for which there is no evidence. They\u2019re all invested in nothing but hope that magic is gonna happen and something is going to appear that will prove all of these baseless, mindless allegations of two years, when the real, to me, continuing frustrating thing of this is that there were crimes of collusion that happened, on the Hillary side!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071118-NATO-A.jpg\")
He was perfectly fine with Theresa May at that presser, but he laid her out on Brexit and trade in an interview that was reported later. Trump does not give up his objectives. He does not compromise his objectives. He\u2019s not looking for idolatry from Vladimir Putin. The press would like you to believe that Trump is totally impressed by Putin, that he\u2019s taken by him. In fact, he looks at Putin with star-struck eyes. The media believed this themselves. I\u2019m convinced they do. They think that Trump looks at Putin and sees the guy he wishes he was.<\/p>\n