{"id":296050,"date":"2019-01-09T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=296050"},"modified":"2019-01-10T15:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:58:49","slug":"donald-trump-will-keep-his-promise-to-secure-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/09\/donald-trump-will-keep-his-promise-to-secure-our-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Will Keep His Promise to Secure Our Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna go back to something Vice President Pence said<\/a>, because it\u2019s important. And I asked him his reaction to Senator Lindsey Graham. Senator Graham is on television saying that if the president caves to the Democrats on this, if there is any indication of any capitulation or caving, if there is any result that translates or looks like a Democrat victory, Lindsey Graham is saying that\u2019s the end of our party, the Republican Party. That will be the end of the Republican Party as an electoral force for 20 years.<\/p>\n

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I guess his meaning is that Republican voters will be so distraught and so fed up that they\u2019ll vanish. That will be the end of it. And Vice President Pence\u2019s response to this was — and I asked him point-blank, “Do you agree with that? Are you looking at it this way?” He said, \u201cWe\u2019re not even looking at this with a political eye,\u201d Vice President Pence said. And I think this was sincere. He paused for a couple of seconds to gather his thoughts on this. And I know that he — my guess is he wasn\u2019t expecting any kind of a question of that nature.<\/p>\n

And he made the point that we\u2019re not looking at this as a political issue. Now, everybody knows that it is, but I think this is an important point. They\u2019re looking at it as an issue for what it is. We have a president keeping promises left and right. And isn\u2019t it interesting to see how trivial Washington thinks that is? They\u2019re counseling, \u201cCome on, everybody breaks promises. If you\u2019re just holding firm on this to be true to a promise, come on, get real,\u201d they\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re so out of touch that a presidential candidate keeping his promises as president is considered small, irrelevant, quaint, and, furthermore, not productive. And yet with Trump it\u2019s an article of faith! And he\u2019s doing his best to keep as many of the promises he made. And he\u2019s giving clear indications that he\u2019s expending full effort to keeping promises. And he\u2019s keeping some of the promises as he can. Those that require the assistance of Congress have been problematic because he can\u2019t get the support of Congress on so many things, repealing, replacing Obamacare when he wanted to do it and this kind of thing.<\/p>\n

But the political observation Graham made, there\u2019s something to this. And whether they\u2019re looking at this politically or not — and I know what Vice President Pence means. What he means is we\u2019re looking at this issue as an issue above and beyond politics. This is a national security issue. It is an American societal and cultural issue. It is a law-and-order issue. And we\u2019re not looking at it here from how do we beat the Democrats and score political points. We\u2019re doing this to save the country, for crying out loud. And that is how people who elected Trump look at this.<\/p>\n

Our country remains in a crisis! You know, for all of these people that still lament the election of Donald Trump, the alternative was simply unacceptable, Hillary Clinton and three more terms of Barack Obama policy. It was unacceptable. Bye-bye America, as founded. There was no alternative. And Trump remains it. And I thought he was very persuasive last night.<\/p>\n

\"\"And I will say this. Donald Trump owns the stage in Trump rallies. There\u2019s nobody that can do what he does. There\u2019s nobody in politics that can even get close. Oval Office addresses, this is a first, prompter exclusively. He\u2019s a different person. And I\u2019m not saying — don\u2019t misunderstand. Even with Trump not in his most favored format, he still made Pelosi and Schumer look like a couple of morticians.<\/p>\n

He still made them look like they are the elite and arrogant, condescending out of touch establishment elites that they are. While in their minds they come across and think that they\u2019re addressing a nation of people that respect them and look up to them and invest all hope in them. And I don\u2019t think they have the slightest clue how they come off. It\u2019s very important that you be able — you have to have empathy. You have to be able to understand how people see you when you are engaged in public speaking or public performance or what have you. And these two clearly do not have the ability.<\/p>\n

And you know why they don\u2019t have the ability to understand how they are seen? It\u2019s \u2019cause they don\u2019t care. There\u2019s not a single thing they think can happen to them if you don\u2019t like what they look like or say. They don\u2019t care. Because what they say is what is. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant, because there\u2019s nothing you can do to \u2019em. And there\u2019s nothing you can do to change their minds.<\/p>\n

So all of this was a perfunctory performance last night based on a false premise that Trump was gonna lie and make all kinds of mistakes and then we\u2019re gonna go out and be able — and these people create this out of whole cloth. They\u2019ve got this idea that Trump does nothing but lie and they\u2019ve been living this lie themselves for all of these years. They are devoid reality. They are absent any reality whatsoever. They have created an alternative universe of media narrative after media narrative, a soap opera, if you will, they\u2019ve created a character, Donald Trump, that doesn\u2019t exist in reality.<\/p>\n

But he does exist on cable news every day and every night. He does exist in the Democrat caucus. But it\u2019s not the Donald Trump that people see. It\u2019s not the Donald Trump who\u2019s actually alive and acting as president and living his life. And it\u2019s the most amazing disconnect.<\/p>\n

These people haven\u2019t the slightest ability to build a bond between themselves and the audience observing them. Chuck and Nancy had no hope. They had no hope of creating a bond. Nobody were Pelosi and Schumer fans last night as people who watch Trump are fans. You might have had partisans. You might have had Democrat voters and partisans hoping Chuck and Nancy really stuck it to Trump, but they\u2019re not personally invested in Chuck and Nancy.<\/p>\n

Chuck and Nancy don\u2019t have that kind of relationship with their voters. Very few Democrats do. The Kennedys did, but nobody approaches it and gets close to the way Trump has. And that\u2019s his strength, and that\u2019s his power. And he said something last night that I thought, you could say this is what persuasion sounds like. He said — and we might have this in the audio sound bite roster. I\u2019ll check. Well, let me look real quick. I got a couple of minutes. Let me find it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Oh. Did you hear what Maggie Haberman of the failing New York Times is reporting? You know, yesterday, which is a tradition, Trump invited some so-called news anchors to come in for lunch. Any time there\u2019s a State of the Union address or an address to the nation, the nation\u2019s big anchors come in for lunch, and the president briefs them and discusses what\u2019s gonna be talked about. Except Trump doesn\u2019t open up. He fulfills the tradition, but doesn\u2019t give \u2019em any heads up.<\/p>\n

So Maggie Haberman wasn\u2019t there. These things are supposed to be off the record. Maggie Haberman of the failing New York Times<\/a> says she heard from somebody there that Trump let it be known he didn\u2019t even want to do this last night. He didn\u2019t care. He didn\u2019t even care about the wall. He didn\u2019t want to do this speech last night, but his communications people told him he had to do it. So that\u2019s what she\u2019s out there tweeting and telling people. That Trump didn\u2019t even really want to do it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you who didn\u2019t want to do it was Chuck and Nancy. They might have been looking forward to doing it, but then when Trump didn\u2019t follow the script and tell a bunch of lies and go off script, they didn\u2019t know what to do. So they were stuck looking at like the morticians that they are.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, it\u2019s gonna be out there, “Trump didn\u2019t even really want to do this.” Translation: Trump\u2019s heart really isn\u2019t in this. He\u2019s just doing this because tribal chieftain Rush Limbaugh\u2019s telling him to do it or his communications people are telling him to do it or Sean Hannity\u2019s telling him. But he doesn\u2019t really want to, he doesn\u2019t care about the wall. That\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna be doing the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

And I think it\u2019s all fake news. The AP has a story that the GOP Congress is now starting to crack<\/a>, and Drudge\u2019s headlined it above the fold on the Drudge Report page: GOP Congress starting to crack, they\u2019re going wobbly, they\u2019re getting nervous. Well, that\u2019s what they always do. They always get nervous. They\u2019ve been nervous before the shutdown started.<\/p>\n

But the implication is that Trump is losing his support, that Trump is going to be increasingly isolated in this shutdown, that nobody in Washington… It\u2019s all fake news! I don\u2019t believe it! You can\u2019t believe it when you see Lindsey Graham out there talking the way he\u2019s talking and warning people. Now, let me see. Where are the Trump bites? Let\u2019s see. Yeah. Grab sound bite 14. I thought this was one of the most persuasive moments in Trump\u2019s address last night…<\/p>\n