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<\/p>\nRUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, let\u2019s start with the briefing yesterday. And I\u2019ll get to the expansion of — I was really dancing around something. I was dancing around the economics message and I\u2019ve had a lot of people tell me, “Rush, yeoman job yesterday, but you gotta understand something. That team at the White House is not going to talk about the economics, the economics message, the economics future until the health aspect of this has some positive certainty and is nailed down. You can do all you want, you can try to goad them into it, but they\u2019re gonna ignore it.”<\/p>\n
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And that\u2019s my problem. We\u2019re trying to establish a one-size-fits-all policy for this massive country. You know the new governor of Iowa is not gonna shut down the state. A new Republican female governor. Not gonna shut down the state. She said, “I can\u2019t. I have no reason to right now.” And Arizona was a holdout. The governor out there, Doug Ducey, they finally forced him into shutting down the state. Shutting down, I mean, putting the social distancing rules into place and so forth.<\/p>\n
The economics of this is a primary concern. I mean, so are the health aspects. Now, here\u2019s the thing that happened. There are two competing thoughts. First of all, how many of you watched the briefing yesterday? I think the ratings for the White House briefing every day are pretty much through the roof. CNN backed out of it. That briefing yesterday was chock-full, whatever you thought of it, it was chock-full of more information and data, which is what everybody wants, than you can get anywhere else in this country and none of the networks covered it — Fox was the only one that covered it — because they\u2019re living in this illusion that they are Trump rallies.<\/p>\n
Let me ask a question. How many press people get to ask Trump questions at Trump rallies? Zero. He doesn\u2019t face any media grilling or any questioning during rallies. These are the furthest thing from rallies. How many times has Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx show up and start talking about their models at Trump rallies? Doesn\u2019t happen. How often does Pence show up to do anything other than introduce Trump? How many times has FEMA — do you have an endless parade of corporate CEOs who are showing their determination to work together to keep the American supply chain up and running? Do these things happen at Trump rallies? It\u2019s absurd that these things are continuations or extensions of Trump rallies. They just don\u2019t like that Trump is Trump and what Trump is doing. But it was a major change yesterday.<\/p>\n
Now, I got an email note from a friend. “Hey, Rush, why aren\u2019t reporters at the White House briefings wearing masks?” These briefings demonstrate remarkable transparency. Trump\u2019s team\u2019s doing a phenomenal job, and here\u2019s the observation from a friend of mine. “Trump has slowly worn reporters down to doing their freaking jobs. Tonight has reporters asking mostly legitimate questions.” It\u2019s true yesterday. It\u2019s why I\u2019m asking if you saw it. Even what\u2019s his name, Acosta, even Jim Acosta at CNN was asking respectful, decent questions.<\/p>\n
Now, my friend\u2019s theory here is that Trump has worn them down. Trump has slowly warned them down. He has shamed them and he has forced them into actually doing their jobs. And when they did their jobs and when they were asking responsible, decent questions rather than gotcha things, Trump responded in kind. He responded with right answers, correct answers, respectful answers. He didn\u2019t rip \u2019em so shreds, didn\u2019t call \u2019em fake news, didn\u2019t do any of that. And so my friend here is crediting Trump for wearing reporters down, because they were asking mostly legitimate questions. Americans want relevant information. They\u2019re getting it in these briefings. And, by the way, these briefings don\u2019t have any sugarcoating. These briefings are worst-case scenario, folks.<\/p>\n
And I know why that\u2019s happening. I\u2019m not into the doomsayers. Like I say: The doomsayers win every time they try. The doomsayers cannot lose, and so now we got this 2.2 million-deaths figure that is irrelevant, and yet still being used. Now the 100,000 to 200,000 deaths has been upped to 240,000 deaths.<\/p>\n
Now we\u2019re told, “The next two weeks are gonna be the worst two weeks. Oh, you better batten down! You had better buckle up. You had better get ready. The next two weeks will be unlike anything we\u2019ve been through yet.” So the doomsayers are alive and well, and they are painting the biggest picture of doom they can — and we know why.<\/p>\n
There are multiple reasons why. A, to prep people. (I mean, we\u2019ll give them the benefit of the doubt.) The second reason is when the numbers come in not nearly as bad, they can say, “See! See! Our early warning and our advice made the difference.” So that 2.2 million figure is not gonna go away, and the 240,000 death number is not gonna go away.<\/p>\n