{"id":280001,"date":"2018-07-23T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=280001"},"modified":"2018-07-24T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:45:48","slug":"trumps-iran-tweet-challenges-putins-client-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/23\/trumps-iran-tweet-challenges-putins-client-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iran Tweet Challenges Putin\u2019s Client State"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I got an email last night from somebody you would all know. I mean, without question, you would all know this woman. And it was just one line, “Thank God you are here to translate him for us.” Well, you know what that tells me. That tells me that there is a lot of investment in this program — and I accept it by the way. I\u2019m honored by it. But I know how high the expectations are and I\u2019m here to beat them each and every day.<\/p>\n

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I want to go back to something I mentioned in the first hour before getting back — or actually starting with the audio sound bites. The Drive-Bys are now obsessed for the moment with Trump and his all-caps tweets to President Rouhani of Iran who is continuing to shout “Death to America!” here and “Death to America!” there, and Trump\u2019s had it. You know, Trump is not like other presidents who say, “Well, you know, that\u2019s just Iran and that\u2019s part of what we have to do being a superpower.<\/p>\n

“And, you know, to show Iran we don\u2019t intend \u2019em any harm, here\u2019s $150 billion direct from the Obama administration,” along with a stupid deal to help them ratchet up their nuclear program. Trump looks at this and is appalled by it, as anybody with any common sense would be. The only people not appalled by it are people working inside the Beltway in Washington who think this is somehow new diplomacy or maybe standard-practice diplomacy. But it\u2019s part and parcel of being a superpower, and we can\u2019t laud it over people and…<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t laud over anybody! We just be who we are. There\u2019s no shame in becoming a superpower, economically or militarily, especially when you are a force for good. Why be ashamed of that? But the left always has been. Phil Donahue. I remember him wringing his hands on his show many times over the accident of his birth. The accident of his birth. It was by pure accident that Phil became an American and not some poor, squalid Central American — and Phil never got over the guilt of the accident of his birth.<\/p>\n

So Phil\u2019s politics were to (sigh) give everything away from the United States to people in need around the world because it\u2019s just not fair that not everybody could be born here. Never stopping to think why the United States is what it is and why other nations around the world aren\u2019t. Never stopping to realize that it\u2019s the difference between tyranny and freedom! (chuckles) It\u2019s not complicated. The difference between tyranny and freedom and the relationship to upwardly mobile economic activity (snorts), it\u2019s not a mystery. But to these people it is.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing special about America; it\u2019s just an accident that we\u2019re so rich. It\u2019s an accident or, as Richard Gephardt said, former congressman from Missouri, we were “the winners of life\u2019s lottery.” And as Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren were famous for saying (impression), “You didn\u2019t build that. You didn\u2019t make that happen. We built the road that make it possible for you to build that. We built the road. Your customer to your store. We built the weather forecast that tells you whether people can come or not.”<\/p>\n

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I mean, that kind of inane thinking is what guides America inside the Beltway. And so letting Iran run amok, letting Iran continue to be the state sponsor of terrorism, undermine Middle East peace, however they wish to — and become the No. 1 Middle Eastern ally of Russia — Donald Trump says, “No. You gonna start threatening us,” Trump caps-tweets back, “You keep doing this and you\u2019re gonna suffer consequences the likes of which you have never even contemplated.” Of course, they need the vapors inside the Beltway.<\/p>\n

“Oh, my God! Oh, my God! First it was Putin. Trump\u2019s gonna blow up Iran? Oh, my God, we\u2019re not safe! Oh, my God. This guy\u2019s dangerous,” and they panic. They don\u2019t stop to realize what\u2019s actually happening here. Iran good bet is Russia\u2019s No. 1 client state at this point in time, not just in the Middle East but around the world. Pretty hard to reconcile Trump\u2019s tweets with the claim that Trump is Putin\u2019s puppet. Trump is aggressively challenging Russia\u2019s puppet client state in the Middle East. How in the world is this acting as Putin\u2019s puppet?<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just one of the minor details the Drive-Bys never mention when it comes to Trump and Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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