RUSH: The president took to the microphones in the Diplomatic Reception Room, it looked to me like that\u2019s what that was, at the White House. The Diplomatic Reception Room is exactly what it is. Yep. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the entrance of the White House that you see — not the front door. Sometimes they use the front door, but this is the diplomatic reception area where visiting dignitaries arrive.<\/p>\n
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And this is where the president, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence announced the permanent ceasefire in Syria with Turkey. No one hurt. The lives of the precious Kurds have been saved. War has been avoided. It\u2019s a permanent ceasefire. But the point is Trump gave his speech here. His remarks feature many of the reasons he was elected president.<\/p>\n
He gave a mini-barn-burner here. He ripped into Obama. He ripped into previous presidents for a bunch of basic dishonesty in committing American troops around the world. He pointed out that the Middle East has become more unstable as more troops have been deployed. The wars have never ended.<\/p>\n
And he made a great point, that as we have continued to send troops to these areas of the Middle East and as the chaos in these areas has ratcheted up, guess what else has happened at the same time? We have opened our borders to more refugees and more immigrants. And Trump says these days are over. We\u2019re not gonna go sponsor chaos and then say out of compassion, “Well, come here,\u201d and open our borders. We\u2019re not falling for this anymore.<\/p>\n
This is exactly why Trump got elected. He made it very clear what the game has been. The State Department, the permanent Washington establishment commits American troops to little skirmishes here and skirmishes there, and nobody ever wins because they never end. We recycle troops. We sell more ammunition and more weapons. The areas become war-torn and unlivable and the people that live there flee, and they go to Europe and some want to come here.<\/p>\n
At the same time, we open our borders, we open our borders to more illegal immigrants, and we open our borders to more refugees, and he said these days are over, this is not gonna happen any longer in announcing this permanent ceasefire. And he ripped in, in these remarks, as you will hear as we get them prepared. Won\u2019t be long. He ripped into not just Obama, but previous administrations and previous thinking that did not have American vital national interests as the priority. Other things were the priority and he said those days are over.<\/p>\n
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He made a big deal of the rebuilding of the military that has taken place during his administration for the express purpose of not having to use it. In other words, it being a gigantic deterrent force. It was hot, folks. And you can tell when Trump is pointed and very insistent that the people he\u2019s talking to hear what he\u2019s saying. This is not toying with the media like he does. This was a broadside, if you will, toward the Washington establishment.<\/p>\n
So we\u2019ve got a permanent ceasefire. He praised president Erdogan as a guy who loves his country. Has gotten to know him pretty well. He says if something happens, though, if they break the ceasefire, if something happens that wasn\u2019t agreed to, we are prepared to go in there and make them pay the price for it. But these days of routinely sending interminable numbers of troops to these ongoing sectarian battles and wars that have been going on for hundreds of years, no end ever happens.<\/p>\n
Oh, he ripped into Obama on his imaginary red line. He kept asking people, remember that red line? As I was watching this, the media had to be seething. The media watching this, the Democrat Party had to be seething, and they were. So as we get the audio sound bites of this, I will happily share them with you so that you can get an idea of that which I am talking about.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: About 45 minutes ago President Trump strode to the Diplomatic Reception Room, it looked like to me, in the White House to announce a permanent solution to the ongoing military strife in Syria.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: Over the last five days you have seen that a ceasefire that we established along Syria\u2019s border has held, and it\u2019s held very well, beyond most expectations. Early this morning the government of Turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in Syria and making the ceasefire permanent, and it will indeed be permanent. I\u2019ve therefore instructed the secretary of the Treasury to lift all sanctions imposed on October 14 in response to Turkey\u2019s original offensive moves against the Kurds.<\/p>\n