Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Rest In Peace To Rush Limbaugh - My Reaction
Aired: 2021-02-17
Duration: 03:06


=== Rush Limbaugh: An American Icon (03:06) ===

[00:00:00]  Guys, today we're mourning the loss of a true conservative icon, an incredible American, someone who has really reshaped the conservative movement over the last few decades, and that's Rush Limbaugh.
[00:00:16]  We found out that Rush had cancer about a year ago and he passed away earlier today.
[00:00:22]  And, you know, he's someone that I know so many of you respect, so many of the people that follow me, that follow my father, that follow sort of, you know, our rise in the political sphere.
[00:00:34]  I know that he's someone that so many of you all just totally respect.
[00:00:39]  I mean, there's people, you know, in my political circles that look at him like a deity, like a god, just someone who took on The establishment, but also took on the radical left.
[00:00:53]  Someone who never bowed down.
[00:00:56]  Someone who never gave up or gave in or succumbed to their nonsense.
[00:01:02]  Someone who pushed back against cancel culture, probably before it was ever called cancel culture.
[00:01:08]  Someone who just, you know, took all of those stones that were thrown at conservatives for decades
[00:01:15]  and just, you know, went right back at them and never gave up.
[00:01:20]  But more importantly, you know, over this year with that diagnosis,
[00:01:25]  sort of never lost his spirit, was never broken by the disease,
[00:01:33]  but actually lived an incredible life with it.
[00:01:39]  Told his story.
[00:01:41]  I think that's perhaps what made him such an incredible communicator was that you felt like you really knew him.
[00:01:47]  He opened up his heart, his mind, and your eyes to everything that's going on in the world.
[00:01:55]  And, you know, I think I try to do some of that a little bit myself.
[00:01:58]  You know, perhaps...
[00:02:00]  Everything I do isn't all that manicured.
[00:02:03]  It isn't scripted.
[00:02:05]  It isn't really put together.
[00:02:07]  It's just sort of me in the moment.
[00:02:10]  And I think Rush is probably the first guy to actually do that.
[00:02:15]  He's a lot harder. I go for three minutes.
[00:02:17]  He goes for three hours every day.
[00:02:19]  It was truly...
[00:02:23]  I've gotten to spend some time with him over the last few years.
[00:02:27]  Obviously one of the early sort of supporters of my father and the things that we were doing in the movement.
[00:02:31]  He got it. He understood it.
[00:02:33]  He was all for it.
[00:02:34]  And, you know, honestly, I think he helped create some of that and that enthusiasm for Donald Trump.
[00:02:41]  I was there, obviously, when he got the Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union last year.
[00:02:47]  Just absolutely incredible to see that, and you could see how much of that meant to him as an American, as a patriot, and as someone who just loves this country.
[00:02:59]  So rest in peace, Rush.
[00:03:01]  Thank you for all that you've done for us, for our movement, for America.