RUSH: I got an email during the break. “Could you explain what you said about Trump and making America great again?\u201d Let me take another stab at this, because I\u2019ve gone back and thought about it, especially with what the Democrats have done since the State of the Union, how they reacted that night, which we documented and commented on.<\/p>\n
I told you I think the structure of the State of the Union speech was genius as in creating a standing ovation for paid family leave and then pivoting immediately to Democrat promoted infanticide and the Democrats not knowing when to applaud and when not to. But just the idea — you know, look at it from Pelosi\u2019s perspective. She\u2019s sitting there, she goes into the room, and she thinks it\u2019s her room, it\u2019s the House chamber, she\u2019s Speaker, it\u2019s hers. The president\u2019s there as an invited guest.<\/p>\n
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She thinks he\u2019s an idiot and a doofus, an embarrassment and she\u2019s just waiting for him to do some stupid, embarrassing thing, she just knows it\u2019s gonna happen, and he delivers the speech of a lifetime, perhaps one of the greatest State of the Union speeches ever, and she\u2019s behind him, got the camera on her the whole time. And she can\u2019t go nuts, she can\u2019t even show very many facial expressions. She has to attempt, anyway, to be a model of decorum.<\/p>\n
And she had to be blowing up sitting behind him watching Democrats — women! — giving Donald Trump a standing ovation on national TV. Democrat women in virginal white standing up and smiling and laughing along with Donald Trump? This was not in the script. This was not supposed to happen. There\u2019s no way under the sun. If anything, she was gonna have to calm her people down and make sure they didn\u2019t boo, make sure they didn\u2019t start marching out in protest, that\u2019s what she was worried about.<\/p>\n
The last thing that she ever figured was gonna happen was that people on her side of the room was going to act and be seen on TV as actually approving of and supporting various Trump policies. So that I think when you saw her pick up the script, people joking, it looked like she has a menu from where she was gonna go to dinner afterwards and she was choosing what she wanted from the menu, I think she was looking at text of the speech and trying to figure out, “How much more time do I have to sit here? Is this thing about over? For crying out loud.”<\/p>\n
I think she also used it as a tool to bury her face because she had to be the epitome of shell-shocked and frustrated. She got outsmarted, she got outmaneuvered, she got outplayed, the Never Trumpers were beside themselves for the same reason. They\u2019re all expecting Trump to walk in there and make an absolute fool of himself. And he ends up with a bunch of Democrats literally in the palm of his hand.<\/p>\n