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\nBy the way, greetings, and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, 800-282-2882.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, well, well, well, Snerdley and I just spent the last half hour sitting here watching Donald Trump\u2019s announcement that he\u2019s going to run for president, and we were laughing ourselves silly. I mean, it was a howl session. But, at the same time, there\u2019s no doubt in my mind — I\u2019ll tell you what this is shaping up to be. For those of you who have the long-term memory and in this for the long game, think Perot. Think Ross Perot. Remember the reaction people had to Ross Perot. And I\u2019m not comparing Trump\u2019s speech. Perot got going with a speech to the National Press Club that was on C-SPAN.<\/p>\n
It was amazing, actually, because it was a noontime speech, but it was all about spending and debt spending and how the US was second-rate in every regard and how it was silly and how he could fix it. There was no intimation that he was gonna run for president at that time. That\u2019s what made the speech that Perot gave so attractive and attracted so much attention to it. Trump did the same kind of thing here with similar focus, except he made it official today he\u2019s running for president.<\/p>\n
\nBy the way, greetings, and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, 800-282-2882.<\/p>\n
Let me just give you a little summary. We\u2019re still rolling tape here, assembling the audio sound bites. He started out — it\u2019s hard to say when he started because there\u2019s so much here, I don\u2019t remember where it all happened. But, for example, he said about Mexico (imitating Trump), “They\u2019re sending us they\u2019re worst people. They\u2019re sending us criminals. They\u2019re sending us the poor. They\u2019re just bad people. Some of them may be good people but they\u2019re just bad people, and we don\u2019t need \u2019em.” And it resonated. That\u2019s gonna resonate. There\u2019s a whole bunch of people, just like Perot resonated.<\/p>\n
And the Drive-By Media, by the way, they\u2019re already scoffing, they\u2019re already discounting it, already calling it a circus act and this kind of thing. And it was. I mean, it was not at all what he passed out. He had a ten-minute speech that he gave out that was embargoed that was not what he did today. You know, Trump\u2019s many things. He\u2019s a serious businessman, he\u2019s a performer — he\u2019s got a performer\u2019s ego. That was on display today, and some days when you see him he\u2019s dead serious about things.<\/p>\n
This was improv. It was by no means on a teleprompter. (laughing) He said at the end of the speech (imitating Trump), “And I\u2019m gonna build a wall. It\u2019s gonna be the biggest, it\u2019s gonna be the best wall. There\u2019s isn\u2019t gonna be a better wall anywhere in the world. We\u2019re gonna build a wall on the Southern border and we\u2019re gonna make Mexico pay for it.” And the place went nuts. And then he said, leading up to announcing his net worth, which he said is required when you run for president, you gotta submit the numbers. He had this one piece of paper that he said his best accounting firm in the world had put together. It took months because he\u2019s so rich.<\/p>\n
He said (imitating Trump), “I\u2019m really rich. I\u2019m really rich. I\u2019m gonna show you in a minute here. I\u2019m really rich.” You know, it\u2019s things like that you just… (laughing) I\u2019ll tell you something that happened. I was riveted watching this for a whole host of reasons and the phone rang, and I got mad because when there\u2019s a secondary noise in the room, I can\u2019t hear what I\u2019m trying to hear. Like two people talking at the same time, I\u2019m not able to comprehend either of them.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m watching, I\u2019ve got the sound up, which is very rare, and the phone started ringing, and nobody in the rest of the office here picked it up, and I just yelled, “Answer the [blank, blank] phone,” \u2019cause I wanted to hear what Trump was saying. And I stopped myself. Wait a minute. Look what just happened here. There hasn\u2019t been a single other person give a political speech in years that if the phone rang and interrupted \u2019em I\u2019d have been mad.<\/p>\n
Now, don\u2019t misunderstand that. You know me, I\u2019m not endorsing, haven\u2019t endorsed. I\u2019m nowhere near any of that. I\u2019m not even jazzed yet, folks. I have to tell you that this is all so premature, and it\u2019s all so early, that whatever polling numbers there are just do not interest me because where we are right now is nowhere near where we\u2019re gonna end up. And I\u2019ve had a premonition, after all we\u2019re talking about a presidential race with Hillary Clinton in it, last name is Clinton.<\/p>\n
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\nOh, that\u2019s another thing. He\u2019s talking about the prison escape and he\u2019s attacking all the “losers” in the American government. (paraphrased) “Losers here, losers there. We\u2019re the dumbest people. China\u2019s beating us. China\u2019s wiping us out.” But he loves China. He\u2019s building buildings all over China, but the Chinese (paraphrased), “We need smart people to beat the Chinese. We\u2019re losing. We\u2019re losing to ISIS.” He said (paraphrased), “We should have had the oil in Iraq; instead Iran\u2019s got it.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re the losers. Our airports are Third World. Hell, I come back from Qatar, I come back from anywhere in the world, I\u2019ve just been to a great airport, and I land at LAX and LaGuardia; it\u2019s a Third World airport! America has Third World airports.” (clapping) The crowd\u2019s cheering. I know a lot of people are gonna agree with that. He starts talking about this prison escape up in New York, and (paraphrased), “Obviously it happened because we have the stupidest people running our prisons. We have the stupidest people in the police force chasing these guys.”<\/p>\n
He can\u2019t believe they\u2019re not caught yet. (paraphrased) “Any responsible country with great leaders, these guys would have been caught.” But he turned that into a political comment on the Second Amendment. He said (paraphrased), “This is exactly why we need the Second Amendment. We need the Second Amendment. We need people with guns. We need people able to defend themselves. We got this prison break up there; our losers in charge of this can\u2019t even capture these guys yet.<\/p>\n
“A woman called me the other day and said. ‘Mr. Trump, I am joining you now in support of the Second Amendment. I used to hate the Second Amendment but now you have convinced me. So now my husband and I are on the same page because he already likes guns, and Mr. Trump, I just want to tell you: We now have a gun in every room. We\u2019re ready to start shooting these guys!'” (laughing) That\u2019s when I lost it. “We\u2019re ready to shoot!” (laughing)<\/p>\n
Snerdley\u2019s watching this thing with his mouth half open for long stretches of time. That\u2019s why we\u2019re working here…the audio. But remember Perot? That ended up being third-party, and it gave us Bill Clinton, arguably. I know some people claim that even had Perot not run, that George H. W. Bush wouldn\u2019t have won. They looked at the polling data in the postelection analytical data, and some people think that Bush would have lost anyway.<\/p>\n
But you can see this setting up. If Trump decides to go third-party, if anybody goes third party, then you could say, “Hello, Hillary,” and Hillary\u2019s an absolute disaster. Could we just…? I mean, this is something that I don\u2019t get. This is what bamboozles. If that\u2019s the best the Democrats can come up with, they don\u2019t deserve to win anything. That\u2019s the best they\u2019ve got, Mrs. Clinton is an absolute disaster.<\/p>\n
The best thing she\u2019s got going for her is there\u2019s a (D) by her name and that\u2019s why she\u2019s gonna get the majority of votes that she\u2019s gonna get. Outside of that, I don\u2019t think… It\u2019s the same thing: I don\u2019t understand the fear. I do not understand why people are so afraid of Hillary Clinton. I understand respect for all of the shenanigans the Clintons are able to pull off. I\u2019m talking about just individually. I don\u2019t get the fear that I still find prevalent out there on the Republican side.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay we got the Trump sound bites. Let\u2019s get started here. They\u2019re not any particular order here. We just cherry-picked.<\/p>\n
TRUMP: Our country is in serious trouble. We don\u2019t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don\u2019t have \u2019em. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let\u2019s say, China in a trade deal. They kill us. I beat China all the time<\/p>\n
AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n
TRUMP: When did we beat Japan at anything? They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? It doesn\u2019t exist, folks. They beat us all the time. When do we beat Mexico at the border? They\u2019re laughing at us, at our stupidity.<\/p>\n