Turning Point USA<\/a>. It was founded by a young guy named Charlie Kirk, and it has taken off. It is a young conservative organization, high school and college age, up through Millennial age young people who have decided that they want to be fully immersed and educated in all things conservative and that they want to be mobilized and activated. They want to be involved and engaged.<\/p>\nAnd Kirk every December here in Florida has a multiple-day conference that\u2019s attended by four to five thousand of these young people. And he is very tight with President Trump and his family. The president shows up. He has a big fundraising award dinner at Mar-a-Lago during the period of time that this conference is taking place.<\/p>\n
And last year, of course, I received the first award this group has offered. And I was asked by Mr. Kirk to introduce the president on Saturday. He was to address this group at 5 p.m. at the Palm Beach Convention Center. And of course I said, \u201cI\u2019m honored, I would be happy to.\u201d I said, \u201cHow much time\u2019s involved?\u201d “Well, maybe 15 minutes.” “Fifteen minutes? I haven\u2019t finished clearing my throat in 15 minutes.” “Well, it\u2019s 15 minutes. But the president wants you.” I said, “Okay. Okay.” So I agreed to do it.<\/p>\n
By the time I got there it was down to 10 minutes. I must have had had three White House people come up, “How long are you gonna speak?\u201d I said, “Well, 15.\u201d \u201cNo, no, no. It\u2019s 10 minutes. We\u2019ve got it right down \u2013\u201d \u201cOkay, okay, 10 minutes, fine, 10 minutes I\u2019m halfway through clearing my throat.\u201d But I\u2019ll tell you, the place was wired. It was electric, and it was raucous. And it was really a thrill to be there.<\/p>\n
Now, I ended up speaking for eight minutes. And I\u2019m gonna play you some audio from it. And I need to tell you some things about it, though. This is not in any way excuse making. I just need for everybody understand because people ask, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you do more of this?\u201d And there\u2019s an answer to it.<\/p>\n
In a place like this, folks, the acoustics for me are just impossible. And in a setting like this with as much echo and reverb as there is, I literally cannot hear myself, and I do not know if the audience is reacting at all. So it\u2019s difficult to establish a bond in a room with 5,000 people. It\u2019s tough to establish a connectivity bond.<\/p>\n
Now, my supreme talents and professionalism are able to overcome this, but it still is simply a function of bionic hearing. It\u2019s simply a function of bionic hearing, and there\u2019s no way — I\u2019ve tried I don\u2019t know how many ways to explain to people how things in life sound to me now as opposed to when I could hear normally or naturally. It\u2019s impossible. I can\u2019t think, back when I had my God-given hearing, I can\u2019t think of anything that sounded the way things sound to me now.<\/p>\n
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And so it\u2019s impossible to explain it to people. It\u2019s an in-the-moment kind of challenge. You have to be able to get some kind of feedback. Is it working? Is it not working? Are they paying attention? Are they not paying attention? If they\u2019re not, how can you get their attention? And then you add the 10-minute time frame, which to me is the epitome of get in, get it, and get out. I mean, you really have time to elaborate on nothing. Plus, the reason you\u2019re there, the reason I was there is to introduce the president anyway.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s such an opportunity. Here you have 5,000 young people — young skulls full of mush — waiting to be shaped, flaked, formed, and molded — properly, of course. One thousand of them were high school students. Such a golden opportunity. I want to play three sound bites from the intro and, amazingly, the media reaction to it. Ha! I came in and I didn\u2019t know any of this \u2019til I got the sound bite roster today. CNN, NPR, they\u2019re all reacting.<\/p>\n
Also, I met with the president on Sunday, and I… Look, this is another thing too. When anybody has a meeting with the president, be it social or business or a combination, you don\u2019t tell anybody. The White House controls that information. If they want to say it took place, then they say it. If they don\u2019t say anything, you don\u2019t. That\u2019s the understood rule. It\u2019s not even something that\u2019s stated. You just are assumed to understand that if you met with the president, it\u2019s not up to you to tell everybody that it happened. It\u2019s up to the White House.<\/p>\n
Well, somebody snapped a picture of the meeting and posted it. It was a Politico reporter. Somebody snapped a low-resolution picture of the president and me and some others having lunch on Sunday afternoon, and they got it all wrong except for the fact that I was in the picture. They got the location wrong, they got the people in the picture wrong, and it\u2019s an interesting illustration of how the media just assumes things and reports them.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s minor stuff in this case as to who was having lunch, but it really is the case. You meet with them, you meet with the White House, you meet with the president, and it\u2019s up to them. If they want to release pictures of it, they do. You don\u2019t. If they want to issue any kind of… In other words, somebody like me does not come to this program and say, “Guess what I did over the weekend!” You don\u2019t do that. That\u2019s up to the White House to do it.<\/p>\n
I could have met with the president a whole bunch of times and nobody knows it, unless they announce it. Anyway, this one got out; it was no big deal. We\u2019ll get to that, because the media reaction to this is what\u2019s funny. They think it was at Mar-a-Largo. It wasn\u2019t, and — as you will hear — you know what the funniest thing is? At CNN they\u2019re all worried. “Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Trump\u2019s meeting with Limbaugh! That means his advisers can\u2019t get to him.<\/p>\n
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“That means Limbaugh can undercut Trump\u2019s advisers. Oh, this is not good. This is not good. The White House doesn\u2019t like this. Presidential advisers do not like people like Limbaugh having access to the president when they aren\u2019t around to correct what Limbaugh\u2019s saying.” (laughing) It\u2019s the craziest thing. The sheer paranoia that exists — and the presumption, of course, is that Trump doesn\u2019t know anything. You know, this is the great dichotomy.<\/p>\n
Trump doesn\u2019t know anything — his advisers have to tell him what to think, his advisers have to tell him what to say — and yet, on the other hand, the guy is the epitome of evil. He\u2019s the epitome of being wrong about things, and he\u2019s out of control and nobody can control him. So which is it, critics? I mean, nothing\u2019s changed. Donald Trump has advisers, but he doesn\u2019t need them to tell him what he thinks. He knows what he thinks. He knows what he wants to do about various things.<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re up close and personal to it, you see just how absurd and ridiculous the press coverage of him is, even beyond the obvious — the obvious hatred, the obvious bias, the obvious fake news, the obvious opposition. When you\u2019re up close and personal to it, you get an indication of just how contradictory and delusional the press coverage of this man happens to be. Let\u2019s go to start with the sound bites of my introduction. Remember, I had 10 minutes. I got it done in eight. This is one of the things that the press is having apoplectic fits over.<\/p>\n
This is how I began after having been introduced…<\/p>\n
BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n
RUSH: I just learned backstage that there are an incredible number, like a thousand high school students here?<\/p>\n
CROWD: (cheering)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, man!<\/p>\n
CROWD: (cheering)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, I have been dying to talk to high school students about so much about what\u2019s happening. I just want to tell you, I don\u2019t have time tonight, but I just want to tell you climate change is a hoax.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (wild cheering and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Please don\u2019t believe it, whatever you do! I beg of you.<\/p>\n
END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right out of the box: “Climate change is a hoax.” Now (not in the bite), I went on to explain. You should have seen my face. My face was pleading. I was literally begging, because young people are susceptible to this. Look at Greta Thunberg. I was gonna mention her, but I didn\u2019t have time. I\u2019ll tell you how. In fact, I\u2019ll tell you how I was gonna mention her, but I didn\u2019t have time to squeeze it in. But they\u2019ve got people scared to death that the planet is not gonna support human life in 12 years, in 15 or 20.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s literally absurd. I told these people in the audience, “They\u2019re trying to scare you into adopting things that will advance their agenda.” I said, “Climate change — or global warming, whatever — contains every issue, every bit of strategy the left is using to transform America away from our founding. It has guilt. It has redemption. It has blaming your parents, blaming adults. It has investing in government, believe in science. Everything they use to propagandize and indoctrinate people is self-contained in climate change.”<\/p>\n
I said, “This is not to say the climate isn\u2019t changing, but the way it\u2019s being presented, it\u2019s the fault of the United States. It\u2019s the fault of the United States — United States progress — that\u2019s causing this calamity. It\u2019s not true.” So I said, “Please, when you leave here — I know what I\u2019ve said is gonna shake you, but — dig into it, \u2019cause it is a full-fledged hoax.” It\u2019s one of those things, folks, when you realize brevity is the soul of wit. I didn\u2019t have time to elaborate.<\/p>\n
So what did I do? “Climate change is a hoax.” Bam! Right between the eyes. Now, here\u2019s what I was gonna tell them about Greta Thunberg. Greta Thunberg is 16 years old. Do you know her story? She was 8 years old and watching the news, and she was hearing about the destruction of the planet and how it wasn\u2019t gonna support life in 10 to 15 years — and she had a panic attack and stopped talking for years.<\/p>\n
She literally had a psychological inversion because of it. She came out of it and became a full-fledged, 100% activist for this — which, of course, the left then recognized and propelled her upwards on a pedestal. I feel sorry for her. She is a living, classic example of what they are doing to people to advance their agenda. What…? They\u2019re scaring a young woman who\u2019s already got a problem. She has autism-related symptoms, Asperger\u2019s, whatever it is.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t care. The more they can use people with disabilities to advance their cause, the better, because they prop up people with disabilities, and it makes it impossible for people to criticize them — and that\u2019s done for a purpose. I didn\u2019t get a chance to tell these young people this \u2019cause I knew I wouldn\u2019t have time. If I got started on this, I\u2019d have gotten the hook again, \u2019cause I had gone over the time limit. But it\u2019s exactly what they do. They take a young woman who they\u2019ve propagandized and they\u2019ve turned into this gigantic, full-throated activist.<\/p>\n
They put her up on a political stage. They make her a political person — they convert her into a political weapon — and then if anybody dares criticize her, “How dare you. This woman has autism! Do you have no soul? Do you have no sense of shame? How dare you?” See, you can\u2019t criticize because if you do, you\u2019re a mean-spirited brute. It\u2019s a favored tactic of the left to use people with disabilities in television commercials for Democrat candidates, and they can say whatever they want.<\/p>\n
They can lie through their teeth, they can read whatever has been written for them, and they\u2019re unassailable because they are disabled, and no amount of criticism of disabled people is permitted in the Drive-By Media. You go try it. I\u2019ve done it. They come after you. They try to destroy you. They rip into you as having no soul, having no compassion. I feel sorry for the kids like this that they use. I primarily feel sorry for… Look what they\u2019re doing to them — and it\u2019s not just in the issue of climate change.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s virtually everything in their agenda. They are scaring the heck out of young people, and then telling people — after they\u2019ve scared them to death — that the reason for their fear, the reason they\u2019re frightened, the legitimate reasons are found in America, and then in the Republican or conservative parties and movement. And they totally politicize this. And most people don\u2019t have the know-how or the desire to even react to it. So people like Greta Thurnberg just are allowed to do what they do uncommented on, and they become official spokesmen.<\/p>\n
And then they become, to young people, heroes — brave and courageous and so forth.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s the fear. What is to be gained by telling a young woman 8 or 10 years old — with a steady diet of media — who already has autism, that she\u2019s got no hope, no reason to live beyond the age of 25? What…? Who would do this? What kind of people would take a young person and literally shred their dreams, and create out of them paranoiac, frightened people who think that progress and advanced lifestyles and standards of living are destroying the planet? Well, people who are political, who want a globalist government — or control of whatever government they can get on — are the kind of people doing it, the American left.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
Now, there is not enough time to get into the next sound bite. There are only one, two… There are four. So there are three more. As I look at this, I can\u2019t believe how much I got in in eight minutes. But, man, that\u2019s all I did was… I mean, for two hours of prior, I buried myself. “Don\u2019t bother me,” I said. “I\u2019ve got to get focused here. I\u2019ve got a bunch of stuff I want to say, and I\u2019m doing it in eight minutes when I normally give myself an hour at things like this.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: There was one other element to the climate change admonition I gave the attendees of the Turning Point USA convention on Saturday. And here\u2019s the rest of the bite. I was feeling time crunched here and constrained, and I wanted to give them an example of something when they weren\u2019t alive to illustrate how kids are used to advance left-wing ideas.<\/p>\n
And most of the people in this audience were not alive in 1995. Do you realize how long ago that is? That is 20 years ago, 24 years ago, is that right? Twenty-two. Whatever it is. But it\u2019s a long time, and especially the 1,000 high school students that were in the crowd were not alive then. So here\u2019s my attempt at explaining the way kids are used to advance left-wing hoaxes or phony, left-wing agenda items.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: Let me give you an example of how it is a hoax. Many of you weren\u2019t alive for the 1995 budget bill. During that time, the Republicans were being accused of starving children because of budget cuts in the school lunch program.<\/p>\n
There weren\u2019t any cuts. There were reductions in rate of growth. The Democrats had a bunch of 12-year-olds, junior high school students, writing letters to Republicans in Congress, \u201cPlease, I can\u2019t learn when I\u2019m starving. Please, I can\u2019t learn when I\u2019m hungry.\u201d And the media is covering this as though it\u2019s legitimate. And it was as big a hoax as the whole climate change thing. Climate change contains every issue the left wants in their bid to transform this country. So please, I know it\u2019s susceptible. They\u2019re scaring you. They\u2019re making you think the planet is not going to support life in 20 years. It\u2019s bunk, folks. It\u2019s just bunk.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes. And then the eruptions began. Now, remember, in the midst of this I can\u2019t tell if there\u2019s any reaction or not. It\u2019s a hearing function. So I have to rely on experience guided by intelligence combined with confidence that there is raucous reaction, and there was, as you could plainly hear.<\/p>\n
Now, moving on, I wanted to tackle something that I\u2019m hit with somewhat regularly. Not often. People coming up to me and saying, “Boy, you know, Rush, it\u2019s really getting harder and harder to defend the president.” So here is that segment.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: Now, a couple of weeks ago, I\u2019m out playing golf, and I\u2019m a very powerful influential member of the media, I\u2019m very recognizable. A guy comes up to me and says, \u201cYou talk to the president a lot, right?\u201d I said, \u201cYeah, he calls now and then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, you tell him he\u2019s got to stop tweeting! You tell him he\u2019s got to start acting more presidential.\u201d I said, \u201cWell, why don\u2019t you tell him?\u201d The guy says, \u201cHe never calls me.\u201d I said, \u201cWell, there you go.\u201d (laughing) Then he said\u2026 Then he said, \u201cIt\u2019s getting so hard to defend the president.\u201d I said, \u201cWhat? Hard to defend the president? It\u2019s one of the easiest things in the world to do.\u201d President Trump does not need to be defended.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (cheering)<\/p>\n
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RUSH ARCHIVE: The people that need to be defending themselves are the people attacking him and the people attacking us. He doesn\u2019t need to be defended. How do you defend Donald Trump? You attack the people who are attempting to destroy him. They\u2019re trying to destroy you. They\u2019re trying to destroy, they\u2019re trying to transform this country into something that it was not founded to be. That\u2019s how you do it. I find it\u2019s so incredible that people think, \u201cOh, my gosh, it\u2019s hard, it\u2019s so hard.\u201d It is not hard.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It is not hard, especially when all the attacks on Trump are personality oriented and are bogus. But the point is, don\u2019t accept the premise. Reject the premise. There\u2019s no need to be defensive. Go on offense and stay on offense. The people that have a lot of explaining to do are not Donald Trump. Let me give you an example. And this is something else I wanted to squeeze in, but I decided on the spot to edit it out because I could just feel time clicking away.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve mentioned this to you before, so it may be redundant. I wish I\u2019d had the opportunity — but I know those kids are all listening today, knowing that I\u2019m going to be talking about them — so I\u2019m taking the opportunity of the program today to re-reach them.<\/p>\n
Go back to the eight years of Barack Obama, prior to the past three years of Donald Trump. In the eight years of Barack Obama, we were told routinely that America\u2019s best days, economically, were behind us, that we have reached a new era in America where it should no longer be accepted that children will do better economically than their parents. We\u2019re in a new era of decline. And it was justified.<\/p>\n
Obama and the Democrats in the media telling everybody that America\u2019s greatness in the past may not be thoroughly justified anyway because we were so corrupt in our founding. And we had mistreated people all over the world, and we were engaging in theft of resources that were not ours. And so our greatness and our economic prosperity was something that was illegitimate.<\/p>\n
Like Madeleine Albright. You know, Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state for Obama, was famous. And she teaches — or I don\u2019t know if she still does. She taught a course at Georgetown University, and her basic premise was that there is nothing special about America, that America was an accident of timing. The Founding Fathers, the break-away from England, it was an accident of timing, that there was nothing special or unique about it.<\/p>\n
And Madeleine Albright was teaching young people and still to this day says that one of the worst things that could ever happen for the world is for there to only be one superpower, and that would be the United States. She was devastated when the Soviet Union fell. Because that left the United States alone as the lone superpower. It is why so many establishment types root for China.<\/p>\n
Folks, do you know that among all of the reasons why the deep state, the establishment, wants to rid of Trump, part of the reason is China. They disagree totally with what Trump is trying to do in leveling the balance of trade with China. Go back and look at Tom Friedman and the New York Times and all these other leftists writing about the greatness of the Chinese system where a few elites are empowered to make all of the major decisions for the country. It\u2019s cleaner, it\u2019s more efficient, it\u2019s smarter.<\/p>\n
And of course these people all assume that they would be among the elites if the United States ever adopted such a system, which they would love. And Trump is coming along and China is being portrayed as the enemy that it is, and China is one of the targets of Trump trade policy and changes, and there is as much opposition to that as there is to anything else Trump is doing that they don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n
Having a competing superpower to the United States is crucial for people who wish to take the United States down a peg or two in size. And Madeleine Albright\u2019s the epitome of it. And she was Obama\u2019s secretary of state. And Obama and all those people believed that the United States was not the good guys. The only way that you can think — by the way, this all ties in to Make America Great Again. The only way you can think that America, as the lone superpower of the world is destabilizing, is if you don\u2019t think we\u2019re the good guys.<\/p>\n
So if you don\u2019t think America\u2019s the good guys, and then somebody comes along running for the presidency on a slogan “Make America Great Again,” you\u2019re gonna panic — and they did, and they still are, which I address in an upcoming sound bite here. The point is, you go back to the eight years of Obama. “New era of decline! Lower your economic expectations. The days of your kids doing better than you economically? Mmm. Don\u2019t count on it. Economic growth will be maybe 1.5% max — and we don\u2019t deserve any more,” they said.<\/p>\n
“We don\u2019t deserve any more,” because we need to pay the price for all the injustice that we had meted out over the world since our founding. This is what they believe. Now, we\u2019re three years removed from that, and where are we? We have record low unemployment. We have wages rising — and you know which wages are rising? Low-end wages are rising faster than any category in the country. People who make the least are seeing their wages increase more rapidly than any other group.<\/p>\n
We have African-American unemployment at a record low, all time. Hispanic unemployment: Record low, all time. We have 6.5, almost seven million job openings in America. We have the stock market that\u2019s gained 10,000 points since Obama left and Trump took over. You think they\u2019re not panicked? They were on their way to chopping this country down to side. They were on the way to getting rid of the United States as a superpower for the purposes of globalism or whatever their desires were.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s why Donald Trump doesn\u2019t need to be defended. The people that need to be defended are the FBI, the people that ran a hoax to get rid of him — a coup. The people that have some explaining to do are those that were trying to talk down the economy and literally did. Remember Obama in Ohio during the campaign of 2016, making fun of Trump. (impression) “He says he gonna bring back all these jobs, huh? What\u2019s he got, a magic wand? How you gonna do that? Those jobs aren\u2019t come back! I\u2019m just here to tell you.”<\/p>\n
He\u2019s telling people that his own policies put out of work, that their jobs are never coming back. Trump\u2019s on the campaign trail saying, “Oh, yes, they are.” Guess what? They\u2019ve come back. So for eight years the American people had to listen about how it was over. “You had better readjust your thinking. You had better get used to the United States being less of a superpower, less of an economic power than you think,” and three years…<\/p>\n
Just three years later, the Trump administration has blown the eight years of the Obama administration to smithereens. That\u2019s why Trump doesn\u2019t need to be defended. It\u2019s why Donald Trump\u2019s tweets and whatever else he does that might irritate people don\u2019t matter. Trump doesn\u2019t have any explaining to do. It\u2019s the Democrats who do. It\u2019s the left that has a lot of explaining to do, and they still haven\u2019t paid the price that they deserve to be paying, and that\u2019ll hopefully happen at the next election.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here is the next segment of the introduction to President Trump I gave Saturday at Turning Point USA.<\/p>\n
BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n
RUSH: We are in a war. We are in a war for the kind of country America is gonna be. There\u2019s always gonna be an America. But the war being waged now is aimed at overturning, overthrowing, the principles of our founding. That is what the left is attempting to do. And look at how. You\u2019d say that the president needs to be defended.<\/p>\n
The people that need to be defending themselves are those who have run this absolutely bogus coup, claiming Russia meddling between the president and Russia during the campaign. They are the ones who have engaged in meddling. It was Hillary Clinton who engaged in meddling with the Russians. The president doesn\u2019t need to be defended. The president needs to be supported. It\u2019s easy to do. He\u2019s —<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
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RUSH: “Make America Great.” Why…? Why is “Make America Great” so controversial? Stop and think a minute. Who opposes it? Somebody comes along and says, “I want to make America great again.” Why is that controversial? Why in the world is that controversial? Then somebody comes along and says, “I think we ought to be America first again.”<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Why is that controversial? Why do people oppose America first? Why do people oppose making America great again? I\u2019ll tell you why. The people who think Make America Great Again is not good think that it is a throwback to 200-years-ago America. They think that it is code for taking America back to the days when it was manifestly unfair, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. It is not that.<\/p>\n
Make America Great Again is, “Let\u2019s get back and restore the principles of the founding.” “America first” is based on the solution and the submission that America is the solution to the world\u2019s problems; it is not the problem. The left in America, the left around the world thinks America is the problem, and we\u2019re not. When America leads, when America triumphs, when America prospers, the world does greater than ever.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: What is controversial about that? It\u2019s something that\u2019s always, until I learned… It\u2019s so foreign to me to not want your own country to be great. It took me awhile to figure out, “Why does this upset them so much?” The answer isn\u2019t pretty. In the left\u2019s new structure of identity politics where we are not common citizens any longer — and we\u2019re not, folks. We don\u2019t have a common citizenry. We do on paper, but we don\u2019t have a common citizenship, not in these starkly partisan days.<\/p>\n
The Democrat Party, the American left is comprised increasingly of people who do not like this country at all, from the very beginning. For whatever perverted, perverse reasons, they don\u2019t. They don\u2019t understand the greatness. They don\u2019t understand the uniqueness. They don\u2019t understand the exceptionalism. They disagree with all of it. They think America was founded unjustly — manifestly so — unfairly, illegitimately, without justice for all kinds of what-have-you minorities.<\/p>\n
Just look at the facts in the face and rejecting all of them: The highest standard of living in the world ever, the highest life expectancy in the world ever in a nation of less than 250 years compared to nations who\u2019ve been around for thousands. But it scares them because the objective is what Make America Great Again rejects. The objective is… You know, you call it “the transformation of the country.” What does that mean?<\/p>\n
It means these people would love to get rid of the Constitution and like to rewrite a constitution or a national pact that empowers government to do everything, not limit it. Because it is only with the power of government can these people, in their perverted minds, address their grievances — and that\u2019s what they are. They are grievance existence. They\u2019re not happy. I don\u2019t even think they pursue happiness, and that\u2019s another thing that irritates them.<\/p>\n
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(angrily) “There\u2019s too much unfairness, there\u2019s too much injustice, there\u2019s too much inequality for anybody to be happy.” Rather than get on board and try to enjoy the one human life we are all given, these people have set out to ruin as many as they can, under the guise of improving everybody\u2019s life by making sure that everybody\u2019s the same — same outcomes, same opportunities. The things they want are not humanly possible, scientifically possible, physics-related possible.<\/p>\n
I mean, it\u2019s a slam-dunk slogan: Make America Great Again. The best thing that could happen is a bunch of people come along and disagree with it. We\u2019re not to the point yet where (chuckling) a majority of American voters do not want the country to be great — and we\u2019re nowhere near a point where a majority of American voters are threatened (laughing) by the concept of “America first” or “Make America Great Again.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Ronaldus Magnus used “Make America Great Again” as a slogan for his first campaign. Nobody was horrified by it. They made fun of “Morning in America” in 1984, but nobody made fun or laughed at Make America Great Again. Bill Clinton used it. It wasn\u2019t his central slogan. Bill Clinton used it. There was no reaction to it. But today, when Trump uses it, there\u2019s abject hatred associated with it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I just want to wrap up the rest of the introduction sound bites of President Trump at the Turning Point USA convention on Saturday, media reaction to it, \u2019cause it\u2019s eight minutes, I spoke for a total of eight minutes, and many in the media went literally bonkers. As I say Politico — somebody snapped a picture of the president and me and some others having lunch on Sunday. A Politico reporter tweeted the picture out, got a low-resolution picture. They got it wrong, it was not at Mar-a-Lago, it was somewhere else.<\/p>\n
And they were speculating about what was being discussed, and of course it was very, very bad because here I was with access to the president, and none of his advisers were there, and so I had unfettered ability to mold and manipulate the president\u2019s mind, and his advisers were not there to protect him. That\u2019s CNN\u2019s take on this. Literally absurd.<\/p>\n
At any rate, here is when I realized time was up and it was time to introduce the president, I had seen him backstage, Kathryn and I met him backstage. He was wired. He was ready. He loves these events. He loves it, particularly the younger the audience the more he loves it like I do. And here\u2019s how I brought him on.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: We really have one shot at this, and the shot that we have at preserving this country as founded (pause) is Donald Trump, president of the United States.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: It is an honor to know him. It is a privilege to be here tonight and to introduce him to you. Make him know how much you love him! The president of the United States, Donald Trump!<\/p>\n
CROWD: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
MUSIC: (Proud to be an American, by Lee Greenwood)<\/p>\n
RUSH: And that entire song played. The president\u2019s on stage walking around, clapping. The place went nuts. Well, I\u2019d already driven \u2019em nuts. It stayed nuts during the Lee Greenwood song, which played out in its entirety. It brought chills up and down the spies of people who saw it later on Twitter. Here\u2019s the president, his opening remarks.<\/p>\n
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