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<\/p>\nRUSH: The president soon will be signing his executive order on safe policing for safe communities. They are setting up a Rose Garden ceremony even as we speak. I don\u2019t know, I haven\u2019t decided if we\u2019re gonna join that in progress, also called JIP\u2019ing it, J-I-P, a little broadcast inside lingo, or if we\u2019ll just wait and summarize it as it goes. Depends on when it starts and what\u2019s happening at the time.<\/p>\n
Folks, it was five years ago, well, actually five years ago and a day, five years ago yesterday Donald and Melania Trump rode the escalator down Trump Tower and announced his candidacy for the presidency. I\u2019m sure you remember the cacophonous reaction of the Drive-By Media, mainstream Republicans, who could not believe what they had heard, who said, “This has to be a joke. This is the funniest thing I\u2019ve ever seen. You can\u2019t possibly expect to actually get elected after what he just said about Mexicans? There\u2019s no way.” But it was I, El Rushbo, the next day, after having studied the entire Trump announcement, told all of you in this audience…<\/p>\n
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RUSH ARCHIVE: This is gonna resonate with a lot of people, I guarantee you, and the Drive-Bys are gonna pooh-pooh it. They\u2019re gonna relegate it to the carnival characteristics of the campaign … Do not misunderstand this. It is gonna resonate.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And people have asked me, “When did you start taking Trump seriously?” I took him seriously that day, folks. He had toyed with running for office numerous times before in the Reform Party. He left the Reform Party \u2019cause David Duke was in it, didn\u2019t want any part of that. But he had toyed with the idea of being in politics, and China was a primary issue of his, how stupid, he believed, that our trade relationship was with China.<\/p>\n
So I knew he was serious. There were some people, “Nah, he\u2019s not serious. This is a marketing campaign. He knows this isn\u2019t gonna work, Rush. People like Trump don\u2019t come out of the outside anywhere like this and actually get elected. He knows he\u2019s not gonna get elected, Rush. He\u2019s setting up a new media empire, or he\u2019s trying to promote The Apprentice or whatever is going on.”<\/p>\n
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I said, “No, no, no, no. Do not misunderstand what\u2019s going on.” And then two weeks later, when the first polls came out — I don\u2019t know if you remember that — but those first two-week polls showed overwhelming support for Trump. And I just smiled. I just smiled \u2019cause I knew it. I knew it was gonna resonate. I knew who the people that were gonna vote for Trump were at the time. I knew why they were gonna vote for him. I knew then what he represented to them.<\/p>\n