{"id":280846,"date":"2018-07-31T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=280846"},"modified":"2018-08-02T00:58:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T04:58:06","slug":"my-best-guess-on-trumps-tweet-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/31\/my-best-guess-on-trumps-tweet-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"My Best Guess on Trump\u2019s Tweet About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: From TheHill.com: “Trump Stirs GOP Midterm Angst with Talk of Shutdown<\/a>.” Really? “President Trump threatening to shut down the government if he doesn\u2019t get sufficient funding for a border wall.” Look, this is only the No. 1 promise he made. It is only in the top five, maybe three reasons he got elected.<\/p>\n

He has to get the wall — and especially if anybody believes the Democrats are gonna win the House, he\u2019s got to get it before the midterms. His base voted for him on that basis. He\u2019s got to — plus he wants to deliver on it. Anyway, let me take another brief time-out. We\u2019ll come back and continue. We\u2019ll get to the clip that Fox & Friends played of me this morning that we think Trump may have tweeted in reaction to.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So the president tweeted today, “Rush Limbaugh is a great guy who truly gets it<\/a>,” but nobody knows why. It just didn\u2019t come out of the blue. Well, it came out of the blue, but nobody knows what it\u2019s about. So all we can do is guess. The best guess is the president was watching Fox & Friends. They played an audio sound bite of me from this program yesterday.<\/a> Here is that segment…<\/p>\n

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EARHARDT: The president, you know, he doesn\u2019t care what anyone thinks. He says what his on his mind. He\u2019s doubled, tripled down on this shutdown. “We will ‘shut down\u2019 the government if we don\u2019t get what we want\u2019 because he is keeping in mind who went to the polls to vote for him. He campaigned on this, and Rush Limbaugh reminds everyone of that when he says this…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Trump is showing he\u2019s not afraid of a government shutdown \u2014 which, believe me, the base of this party loves. The base of the Republican Party\u2026 We know now, by the way, any poll shows Trump has 85 to 92% support the Republican Party. The Republican base is Trump\u2019s now. It\u2019s not a bunch of populist nationalists. It\u2019s the mainstream of the Republican Party that\u2019s for Trump, and they hate this cowering before the Democrats and the media over government shutdowns. They hate giving up every policy idea in the face of the blackmail of the government shutdown. So they loved Trump saying he\u2019d be willing to do it over this because the issue of immigration is what got him elected.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the best we can come up with. The president must have been watching that, saw it, and then heads to Twitter and says, “Rush Limbaugh is a great guy who truly gets it!” Of course, he could have tweeted that out any time in reaction to anything or nothing and the tweet would have still been right-on-the-money accurate. You could tweet “Rush Limbaugh is a great guy who truly gets it!” any time. It wouldn\u2019t have to be in relation to anything, and this tweet could have been one of those. But the best guess is it was reacting to that, and I think that was about 7 o\u2019clock this morning, 6 or 7 o\u2019clock this morning.<\/p>\n

\"\"Here\u2019s Steve Doocy, sound bite No. 2, following it up.<\/p>\n

DOOCY: It will be one of the top issues going into the midterms.<\/p>\n

EARHARDT: How about those numbers? Rush said 85 to 92% support in the Republican Party. The base supports President Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and 85% on the low end. That number, the number of Republicans, that\u2019s in Pew, that has been in Rasmussen, that\u2019s been Gallup. It\u2019s been in a number of different polls that Trump has this ma… I mean, there hasn\u2019t been a Republican president since Reagan that\u2019s had that much support of Republican voters. That\u2019s very high. Of course, one of the objectives that the media has had along with the Democrats is to drive a wedge between Trump and his voters. That\u2019s what all of this has been about from the get-go, and that polling data suggests utter failure.<\/p>\n

There was also an effort to say that Trump\u2019s voters were somehow not really Republicans. They were a combination of populists and nationalists and anybody Steve Bannon could pay to become a populist and nationalist and maybe a few independents here, a couple of bedraggled Democrats. In other words, it was a new coalition that was only going to be a coalition while Trump was around. That\u2019s what all the political experts told us. Every political expert, every blogger political expert, every analyst said that the Trump coalition is unique, and it will never exist once Trump\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n

They said that because that\u2019s what they hoped was the case. Neither party wants to believe that they have lost a significant number of their voters to Donald Trump because they all hate Trump, and they still think Trump is this lamebrain, unqualified, unsophisticated outsider who has got no right to even be in Washington breathing the same air they breathe. And so the effort here to characterize those of you who vote for Trump as a bunch of alien-type oddballs.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019re so nutty, you\u2019re so conspiracy oriented, and there\u2019s enough of you out there that Trump found a way to magically put you all together and create this new populist\/nationalist coalition. The fact now that Trump\u2019s base is the Republican Party base? Believe me, that is sending shivers down the spines of the Republican Party hierarchy leadership. Make no mistake about it. That\u2019s not supposed to happen, because the reason for…<\/p>\n

I mean, if 85 to 92% of the Republican base supports Trump, then it means the Republican Party had better keep being Trump, better keep on the Trump agenda if they want to keep these voters — and that\u2019s what they\u2019re scared to death of. They don\u2019t want to have to keep the Trump agenda. It\u2019s like Reagan. Both parties can\u2019t wait \u2019til Trump\u2019s gone so they can get back to business as usual, which is usually ignoring you except during campaigns.<\/p>\n

Promising you what you want to hear during campaigns and then forgetting about it after they get elected. Well, here\u2019s Trump keeping every promise so far and making good on every claim — such as making America great, reviving the economy, creating jobs, bringing jobs back, increasing wages, any number of items in the Trump agenda. In a year and a half, Trump has accomplished much more than any recent U.S. president ever, and this just sends chills down the spines of the establishment guys because Trump illustrates it could be done.<\/p>\n

Trump illustrates an outsider can come in and do this. Revive an economy as large as the United States economy in a year and a half? It\u2019s not supposed to be able to be done, folks. The way Obama talked about the economy is the way the establish wants everybody thinking about it. (impression) “Well, our best days may be behind us. That doesn\u2019t mean we have to suffer, but we gonna have to recalibrate. And those jobs that are lost? You just gotta realize they ain\u2019t coming back. That means that you gotta go to government job training and relearn the new skills for the 21st Century.”<\/p>\n

Trump punts that, says, “To hell with that,” brings these jobs back, realigns trade deal so that they are much more fair for the United States of America, closes the American back pocket to the rest of the world that\u2019s been picking it, and shows that it can be done. The establishment wants you to believe that, “You know the way we were trending for eight years in Obama? That was nature! That\u2019s as good as it could get because the best and the brightest were in charge and they were dealing with the realities of the world and the new globalism.”<\/p>\n

Trump is one of the biggest interrupters, disrupters in the history of this nation. This little stat that 85 to 92% of Republican voters support and love Trump? (chuckles) Believe me, that was not supposed to happen. Trump coalition was supposed to remain some odd collection of oddballs, kooks and freaks who don\u2019t vote, usually. Remember that aspect of it, too? If you think back to the campaign, the media tried to tell us that the Trump coalition was made up of people who never voted before, or hadn\u2019t voted in a long time, because they\u2019re so fed up.<\/p>\n

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“They\u2019re malcontents! They\u2019re fed up. They feel left out. They feel like America has no place for them.” That was all said mocking them and making fun of them. The point was that the Trump voters really nothing more than a bunch of fringe kook balls and nut burgers who had been united by a fellow fringe kook nut burger, Donald Trump, but that when Trump went away, so would that coalition. Now they\u2019re looking at these numbers, and that\u2019s not gonna happen. The Republicans are looking at, if they want to keep this base, they\u2019re gonna have to heed to the Trump agenda, which not many of them apparently want to do.<\/p>\n

But it still is the case on the government shutdown. You know, there\u2019s one other thing to say about this — and I mentioned it yesterday, and I\u2019m sure a lot of you were surprised. The United States economy, the stock market does not suffer during shutdowns. Everybody thinks the opposite. Everybody thinks, “When the government is shutdown, Wall Street tanks. The American business sector comes to a screeching halt because people are scared to death that the government is no longer operating.” It\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a myth that the government shutdown screws the stock market and the economy. It\u2019s also a myth that government shutdowns hurt Republicans! Even the \u201995 shutdown — which is the reason for the ongoing Republican fear of shutdowns — did not hurt them. They did okay in the midterm elections one year after that, the presidential election. They didn\u2019t win the presidency, but they kept the House. They didn\u2019t lose the House after the 1995 budget deal, which featured a shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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