{"id":361368,"date":"2020-08-21T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=361368"},"modified":"2020-08-28T13:39:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:39:12","slug":"trump-recaptures-the-16-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/08\/21\/trump-recaptures-the-16-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Shakes ‘Em Up at Council for National Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019m getting a lot of feedback. “That was great, Rush, that comparison of Trump\u2019s inaugural to Biden last night.<\/a>” It is a good comparison because I think people forget. Four years ago is a long time, and Trump has been around every day for four years.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s easier to remember Trump of yesterday or this morning than it is the Trump of four years ago. Trump of four years ago was magic. The Trump campaign four years ago and his inaugural address — that whole period — it was magical, and I don\u2019t blame them for trying to recapture it. I wish they could. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong with trying to recapture it.<\/p>\n

You know, after Trump… In fact, I\u2019ll give you an illustration. Sometime earlier this week Trump appeared at an airport hangar. I think it was in Minnesota. Oh, and speaking of which, Trump and Biden are tied in Minnesota. Have you heard about this? Where did I put it? It\u2019s in one of these two stacks<\/a> up here, ladies and gentleman — and Trump\u2019s daily tracking presidential approval numbers, for the second day in a row, is 51% in Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

Trump and Biden are tied in Minnesota. Minnesota! George Floyd, Minnesota! This is big. So, anyway, Trump was in Minnesota (I think he was in Minnetonka), and had the airplane as the backdrop, and he was doing a rally in a hangar. It was just like some of the rallies in 2016 except the plane was his 757, the gold-and-black plain with the gigantic “Trump” in red on the fuselage.<\/p>\n

He did a rally — I think it was the one in Minnetonka — and it was awesome. It was exactly like the rallies of 2016 in terms of his energy and his focus and the subject matter and his energy. It was during The Five on Fox, and I happened to be watching. And when it was over, they went to The Five for post-rally commentary, and Juan Williams came through.<\/p>\n

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He said (summarized), “Well, you know, it was boring as hell to me. We saw that four years ago. We don\u2019t need to be seeing this again. Come on, Mr. President! Come up with something new. You can\u2019t go back to the well like this. That was nothing new. That was predictable. That was absolutely… I mean, the president\u2019s gotta get in the present. He can\u2019t go back to the past and relive and…” The hell he can\u2019t!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it was great. It\u2019s exactly the kind of magic Trump needs to recapture, and I think he\u2019s doing it right now. Trump is addressing some group. I don\u2019t know who it is. He\u2019s in Arlington, Virginia, and I saw a little bit of it before the program started, and he\u2019s got the attitude that he had earlier this week, standing in front of…. This was Air Force One, not the Trump plane. This was actually the… It was a U.S. government 757.<\/p>\n

Oh, another question. “How come, Rush, he didn\u2019t take the 747?” Well, because he had a lot of puddle-jump stops. He was in Minnesota. He had, you know, couple of hundred-mile flights. You don\u2019t want to put a landing and takeoff cycle on a Boeing 747 on a hundred miles. I mean, a cycle adds much to maintenance costs, overhaul costs. So they took the 757, and it was the one that served as the backdrop.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m telling you, it was fabulous. It was like Trump rallies of 2016 in the hangars back then, and he\u2019s captured it in what is going on right now. I don\u2019t know the group to whom he\u2019s speaking. I never saw. The graphics are not saying. But he\u2019s doing well. He\u2019s on — and the Democrats, I think, are living in mortal fear that Trump\u2019s gonna recapture 2016.<\/p>\n

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I think it\u2019s what Juan Williams was doing with, “Aw, this is old. Aw, we\u2019ve been there, done that. Aw.” Let me tell you what was old. Let me tell you what was been there, done that. Last night. The only reason last night was being held up as some kind of greatness is because Joe Biden didn\u2019t screw up. It\u2019s because Joe Biden was able to read the prompter, not lose his place, not lose his timing.<\/p>\n

But in terms of substance? That speech could have been given 50 years ago. Could have been given 30 years ago. Could have been given 20 years ago. Could have been given a year ago, five years ago. There was nothing in that speech that in any way dated it to the present, other than the occasional mentions of Trump, and yet there\u2019s nobody talking about it that way.<\/p>\n

And if you dare talk about it that way, they\u2019re gonna be climbing down your chili. “You can\u2019t be mean to Biden!” See, Biden is a sympathetic figure. We\u2019re supposed to feel sorry for Biden. Do you know why? Because his wife died in car accident and then his beloved son Beau Biden died from brain cancer. We\u2019re supposed to feel sorry. But we can\u2019t feel sorry for President Trump whose brother just died.<\/p>\n

His brother Robert, who happened to be his best friend. No, no, no, no, no, no, no! We can\u2019t feel sorry for Trump. (impression) “Trump deserves to be miserable, as much pain and suffering as he\u2019s causing people. Trump deserves it!” But no, we\u2019re supposed to feel sorry for Plugs. We\u2019re supposed to feel sorry for Plugs \u2019cause he\u2019s losing his mental acuity. He lost his wife years ago, and he lost his son, Beau Biden.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re supposed to feel sorry for him \u2019cause he really can\u2019t do what he did last night.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m here to tell you…<\/p>\n