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RUSH: I just checked a little bit of the Trump foreign policy speech. Let me tell you what this is, by the way. A lot of people say, “Who\u2019s this speech to? What foreign policy group? I mean, it\u2019s in a hotel. What\u2019s the group?” Brilliant questions if you\u2019re asking those questions. This speech has been put together by Trump supporters, and a special guest list of foreign policy people in Washington were invited to come hear it. There is no de facto organization that Trump\u2019s addressing. <\/p>\n

They might have given themselves a name, but it\u2019s in a hotel ballroom. It\u2019s at the Mayflower Hotel, I believe. And this has been designed by Trump and his campaign to… It\u2019s a teleprompter speech that he wrote. Actually other people wrote it. He didn\u2019t like it, he rewrote a lot of it, and it\u2019s… The part that I heard, he said something very different about Israel than he has said in debates. In debates, he has said that he would not start out in any negotiation in a biased or balanced direction toward Israel because the Palestinians or others in negotiations would not consider him fair. <\/p>\n

He made no bones in the little section that I had a chance to hear. He just made no bones about his support for Israel and its role as our lone ally and the lone democracy in the Middle East. We are rolling on this speech. Cookie\u2019s rolling up there in our massive audio sound bite control room, and we\u2019ll have excerpts of this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today. But this is an event today that\u2019s essentially designed… This is not a criticism, folks. This not criticism, okay? <\/line><\/p>\n

It is designed to look like a regularly given foreign policy address that happens every year before some august group of Striped-Pants Crowd people. In fact, this is an invitation event sponsored by Trump and his supporters to add weight — foreign policy weight — to his campaign. Now, I don\u2019t know who\u2019s there. I don\u2019t know who\u2019s invited. There are some people from Afghanistan I saw. I saw former ambassadors and so forth.<\/p>\n

I mean, they\u2019re heavyweight people in the foreign policy community. But, for example, this is not at the Trilateral Commission. It\u2019s not over the Council on Foreign Relations. It\u2019s not at a think tank where these things normally occur. It\u2019s in a hotel ballroom, and Trump is standing in front of four American flags. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, of course it\u2019s a different Trump. What do you mean, “Is it a different Trump doing the speech?” Of course it\u2019s different. He\u2019s reading a teleprompter. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s bad. Trump is trying to show different sides to different people, or else his advisors have decided it\u2019s time to demonstrate some credentials and some weight here on foreign policy, to go a little bit further than, “We\u2019re doing dumb trade deals, and the Chinese and Mexicans.” <\/p>\n

You\u2019ll hear it. We\u2019ll have some sound bites coming up pretty soon. You\u2019ll be able to judge for yourself and you\u2019re be able to hear the difference in this speech that Trump is giving right now and his usual campaign rally speech, which is an off-the-cuff extraneous improvisational hour\/ hour and a half every time he goes out at a rally.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The group that Trump spoke to today has a name. It\u2019s called the National Interest. But let me tell you what KT McFarland said. She is a former foreign policy official I think in the George W. Bush administration. She said that choosing the National Interest to sponsor the speech is significant because it shows a break with the Bush neocons and a move back to the Nixon-Kissinger-Reagan theme. <\/p>\n

Now, she\u2019s a foreign policy person and would know what that stuff means. But basically this was not a speech to a bunch of neocons. But, again, don\u2019t misunderstand. It\u2019s a manufactured event. This is not an event that happens every year at this time at a location. This was put together for the specific purpose of writing a speech for Trump to deliver on foreign policy that would be read off a teleprompter. And, in fact, on social media there\u2019s nothing that he said that anybody really has a problem with, but they\u2019re mocking his delivery because it was so different than the normal Trump improv presentation. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. Trump spoke at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington today at the Center for the National Interest. We\u2019re just gonna start with the sound bites here. They are, for the most part, in order. It was a teleprompter speech, unlike Trump\u2019s normal appearances, and it was designed to get him on record in substantive, weighty ways on American foreign policy and his ideas.<\/p>\n