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Jan. 20, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 20, 2017, Friday, Hour #2
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Well, Obama's gone now.
Can Republicans go back to listening to me?
That's true.
They never stopped.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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Well, there's so much to review.
I've basically treated you already to my immediate post inaugural address analysis.
What's going to be fun now is to look at some of what the drive-by says.
You hear what Bob Schiefer said on CBS.
Bob Schaefer, and by the way, this is this is patently obvious.
I mean, we were sitting here watching this during Trump's speech, and it was just crystal clear what was happening.
Bob Schaefer's description.
He basically took the hide off everybody on that platform.
Now, I think that it is important here to once again say what I think many in the establishment who still to this moment, well,
now they might finally have come to grips with it, but I mean, even this morning on the early morning news shows and all morning during the uh setup, whenever I tuned in and listened, the overall tone of the commentary was that Trump's transformation into presidential would occur today.
They all were of the opinion that Trump finally would reveal that he is going to become one of them today.
He's going to do a standard ordinary inaugural address that could be compared to previous inaugural addresses, and that Trump was going to basically vacate the campaign persona today.
And if not become an actual practicing functioning establishmentarian, he was going to at least make a step in that direction.
And I think as they were sitting there listening to his speech, they just probably were stunned and shocked and couldn't believe what they were hearing.
And I think it goes not just for the people that were up there on that stage and near the podium, but also some in the drive-by media.
Because I think, folks, it can't be said enough.
The people analyzing Trump, the people in the establishment, but both parties and the media, they still have not come to grips with what's happened here.
They haven't come to grips because they are not capable of addressing Rhea.
Now, this is primarily the leftists.
I think some Republicans, more and more of them, are on board and understand it, whether they like it or not.
But the Democrats are clearly still off the reservation and don't have the slightest idea what's happened to them.
And I think it's evidenced by that political story.
I mentioned yesterday know how bad a shape they're in, but they're not admitting to themselves yet why.
They have not admitted that they were rejected, that their ideas were rejected, that Obama's agenda was repudiated.
That hasn't crossed their minds.
They still believe that something strange happened, such as hackery, wiki leaks, Russians, maybe their polling betrayed them.
Some of them are starting to acknowledge what a lousy candidate Hillary was, but they still haven't yet acknowledged to themselves why they lost.
That's good for us, by the way.
The longer they remain in the dark about it, the longer it's going to be before they make any substantive changes.
But I don't think they can make any substantive changes.
At some point in the last ten years, the Democrat Party decided to abandon their base that has been there for decades, and that is the white unionized working Middle class.
They decided to jettison that group and instead go after and pursue political victory with a coalition of oddball minority groups that were really not unified by anything other than hatred of the same thing.
And you heard Chuck Schumer essentially call out to him.
The Democrat Party basically looks at America and sees ethnic divisions, sexual orientation divisions, gender identity divisions, racial divisions, and...
But they've ignored the economic divisions.
And they have decided that their path forward is somehow putting together a coalition of all these disparate minority groups.
And Schumer gave them a shout out in the remarks that he made today.
And I think that's what has been reclaimed by the Trump victory and by all of the ceremonies that began last night and carried through to the inaugural address today.
The omnipresence of God, the acknowledgement of the existence of God, the prayer after prayer after prayer, the requests of God for strength and guidance.
These are things that make the Democrat Party coalition really angry and really nervous.
The acknowledgement that you are one people, that we all have similar objectives and dreams, that the things that differentiate us are not that important.
The way Trump addressed that was to say whether we're black, brown, or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.
When America is united, America's totally unstoppable.
And together we will make America great again.
Together we will make America strong again.
Those words, I guarantee you, Hollywood cringes, the American left cringes, the Democrat Party cringes, that's not their language.
That's to them, those are fighting words.
Together we'll make America great again when America's united.
They don't want any unity.
They're looking for the various minority groups that they're trying to coalesce into a working majority.
They want that group of people in anger, lashing out, fighting back, and defeating the other America, which is the America of our founding.
And that's what the Democrat Party now sponsors.
And Trump just threw it right back in their face.
And of course, the great irony here is that while the Democrats seek the votes of all of these disparate minority groups, once they have their votes, they ignore them.
Their lives never improve.
Their economic circumstances never improve.
The people that donate to Democrats' lives improve.
And the people that raise funds for Democrat lives improve.
But the rank and file do not.
They never have under the Democrat Party, and they never will.
And so Trump firing both barrels today in what to me is a clear effort to reclaim America's birthright has got them shell-shocked in much of Washington.
And I think members of both parties, but primarily the Democrats and the left.
Let's um Daily Caller, let's review some media here before we get to the sound bites.
Daily caller Chuck Schumer drowns in booze at Trump's inauguration.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer faced a sea of disapproval during his speech at the inauguration.
He was repeatedly booed, especially after lines like, I stand here today confident in this great Country for one reason, you the American people.
Crowd starts chanting Trump.
Do you realize that way, way out there when Hillary walked in, there were there were there were there were cheers of uh locker up, you could hear.
Way, way they weren't anywhere near the the uh the stage area.
Locker up.
What in fact, you know what caveat, caveat, I didn't hear them either.
It's been reported.
Let's let me retract that.
I don't really know that that happened.
It'd be something classic the drive-by's would report that happened that didn't.
Like this.
CNN, fake news again.
CNN runs a story that Nancy Sinatra is offended and outraged that Trump is going to sing her dad's song My Way, or Trump, that the song is going to be played my way at Trump's inauguration.
CNN reports Nancy Sinatra's livid about it.
Nancy Sinatra tweeted, I don't care.
I've never said that.
Why would CNN lie about it?
CNN is fast becoming known as the headquarters of fake news.
You don't even hired somebody to be in charge of fake news.
Well, they did.
They hired somebody.
It's it's somebody to be on the lookout for fake news.
Not not somebody to disseminate it, but I mean they have already got that covered.
They've got the dissemination of uh fake news covered.
It's a it's uh yeah, it's right.
They hired Valerie Jarrett's daughter.
Well, you gotta keep the communist presence even after Obama leaves.
And so CNN is become the uh the agent of uh of that.
Now, audio sound bites.
Let's start with uh George Stephanopoulos and George Carr or George Carl.
Uh Jonathan Carl.
This is after Trump's inaugural address.
He began with a thank you for everyone behind him on that West Front of the Capitol, members of Congress, Senators, Republicans, Democrats, former presidents, but then a direct attack on all of them for failing America.
That was something else, George, to hear him say that this is a transfer of power, not just from one party to another party, but from Washington, D.C. to the American people.
This was an attack on the politicians in both parties that were surrounding him after that rather blistering attack on everybody around him.
He did return to that theme of unity, a broader theme of unity.
And I thought the line that we'll hear a lot uh was when he said, whether we are black, brown, or white, we all bleed the red blood of patriots.
The one the one acknowledgement that we have very many different types of Americans is notice what they think.
Yeah, that's what everybody's gonna focus on.
No, no, no, that's not gonna be what everybody's focusing on.
They they continue to misread it.
Here is uh by the way, right?
Trump is signing some it looks like some ceremonial executive orders right now, and the reason I say it's ceremonial is because Nancy Pelosi's there trying to horn in on it, and she's smiling.
So if Trump was actually doing something meaningful today, Pelosi wouldn't be there smiling.
So obviously, I mean she the members at Congress, you know what happens when the president signs something, he signs one letter with a pen and then gives somebody the pen, then grabs the pen, signs another letter of his name.
And and in some cases, part of a letter.
You can use sometimes 20 pens signing your name as president, everybody gets a pen that you used, and Pelosi's in there, uh trying to trying to get in on the action.
And uh see, we got basically Paul Ryan there and Baron Trump, uh Mr. Mrs. Pence, Roy Blunt, Mitch McConnell, there on camera left, the uh Trump familia in the back.
I mean, in in this camera shot, correct me if I'm wrong, the only Democrat in there is Pelosi.
In the camera shot, I really don't see a Schumer.
I'm looking for a ball.
Oh, he was standing up there.
Oh, yeah, there he is next to Mitch.
Just came in next to uh Mitch McConnell.
Okay, here's the next series of bites.
This is uh this is Trump.
One of the moments calling out Washington politicians sitting right behind him, sound by number 23.
For too long, a small group in our Nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.
Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth.
Politicians prospered, but the jobs left, and the factories closed.
The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.
Their victories have not been your victories.
Their triumphs have not been your triumphs.
They're sitting right behind.
There was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
They're sitting right behind him.
He's talking about the very people sitting right behind him.
And they knew it.
And they knew it.
I mean, it was incredible.
You know, Trump Trump had a line.
What was the line?
He said something about the when you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.
It's an interesting uh thought experiment.
Anyway, so Trump has just ripped their height off, as Bob Sheever said.
Now let's listen to F. Chuck Todd and Tom Brokaw describe this.
I have to say it was surprisingly divisive for an inaugural address.
He went with populism.
And I think that it's going to play well with his folks.
But that wasn't the type of inaugural address that was intended to bring this country.
There was a point there.
Lester where it felt as if he almost was insulting every living president that was sitting next to him.
Very personal ways.
He was also insulting all the Republican congressmen and senators who are on that stage.
He has a majority, but he went after politicians point blank.
See, I'm telling you, these are establishment people themselves, and they were thinking that today was going to be the day that Trump was going to take the first step to joining them on their side of whatever aisle.
And Trump doubled down and basically echoed his campaign themes in an inaugural.
You know, he did this last night.
In the event at the Lincoln Memorial.
He gave a prelude to this speech.
It was a very short set of comments last night, but it was a basically a uh repetition of many of the campaign themes, like this was.
And they went to pundits at Fox.
Uh very, very disappointed.
Very, very disappointed in the speech tonight.
Too short, way too short, more like a campaign rally.
This isn't, this is not have uh presidential timber.
Was the reaction last night on Fox.
And I think they were expecting Trump to be somebody that he's not.
Because remember, in their world, everybody becomes who they are in order to advance in their world.
Anyway, I take a break here, my friends.
We will be right back with much more.
Welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Libboy here on the excellence at Broadcasting Network, 800 282-2882.
You know, if if there's any arrogance or condescending here, it's Chuck Todd, like in a soundbite we just played.
I have to say it was surprisingly divisive for an inaugural address with populism.
I think it's uh it's gonna play well with his people, but it wasn't the inaugural address that was intended to bring the country.
Yes, it was.
You know, it it's Chuck, you don't figure that the American people not with you, Chuck.
The American people elected Donald Trump, not you.
In spite of you, Chuck, not personally, but you guys in the media, the American people elected Donald Trump, not you.
You do not define what's unifying and what you guys are not on the ball here.
Well, this was uh surprisingly divisive.
Divisive.
Wasn't divisive.
It was it was a calling out.
It was a reclamation.
I I'm telling you that's what this was.
This entire 24-hour period is a reclamation, a reclaiming of this country from people who wish to transform it and make it something it was never intended to be.
This country's been rescued.
And in that there is unity.
I guarantee you.
a boatload of Bernie Sanders Democrats who are probably privately don't want anybody to see them applauding what Trump said today in part.
No, it doesn't concern me.
Just telling the media does not define who's unified and who isn't.
They don't define unity.
The media doesn't get to tell us what kind of country we are, and if it isn't the kind of country they want, then something's wrong.
They don't get to do that.
They may have in the past.
They may have gotten away with that in the past, but not now.
By the way, at 12 noon straight up, all references to climate change were removed from the official White House website.
Back in just a second.
What Trump was signing was the formal submission of all of his cabinet nominations to the Senate.
That's what he was signing.
There were no executive orders.
That's going to come later today.
There are a bunch of uh executive orders that Trump's going to sign.
The Obamas are now boarding uh the 747400 that will take them out to Palm Springs in California.
They just had a little going-away ceremony in the hangar at Joint Base Andrews.
I don't know if it was the Congressional Black Caucasians in there or the Democrats that didn't show up at the inauguration that were in there.
I'm I really don't know.
There was a crowd of people.
I remember when Clinton left in 2000, while Bill and Hillary were stealing furniture from the White House.
And that, by the way, folks, that did happen.
You may think that I'm being uh caustic or uh humorous.
No, no, they stole.
Remember, Hillary's we left the White House broke.
They stole some furniture and other stuff of the White House.
But Janet Reno had her own departure ceremony in a hangar before she left.
She was attorney general, and there were all kinds of people in the Department of Justice out there to wish her off, and then other cabinet people had their own going away ceremonies in the hangar.
Obama just had his.
So he and Michelle just boarded the plane, which is the one that always ferried them around as Air Force One.
They have to, they are going to come back to Washington.
They have to make their own way back.
This is the last government trip they will be on unless there's a disaster somewhere and Trump decides to get all the former presidents together and send them over there to wherever it is like Clinton did.
I mentioned that at 11.59 a.m. today, the official White House website had a lengthy information page about the threat of climate change and the steps the federal government had taken to fight it at exactly 12 noon.
When the uh when Donald Trump took office, that page was gone, as well as any mention of climate change or global warming.
It just vanished.
And I hope it stays that way.
Rex Tillerson is now at the official congressional lunch.
He was uh probably talking oil drilling with John Rogers.
That's who his table made was there in statuary statuary hall.
What is so funny?
I'm sure they were.
I know he's Secretary of State.
That's his expertise.
Secretary of State, he's talking to Chief Justice Rogers, Roberts, I'm sure there's an offshore drilling of some kind.
David Frum, a former speech writer, George W. Bush in the first term, ready for this.
You'd have to say From is a never Trumper.
From is somebody still hasn't come to grips here with what's happened.
And we have a story at the Hill.com, headline, ex-Bush speechwriter, Trump is worse than slave-holding presidents.
A speech writer for former President George W. Bush on Friday called President elect Donald Trump the worst human being ever to enter the presidency, just hours before Trump's inauguration.
The worst human being ever to enter the presidency, and I include all the slaveholders, tweeted David Frum.
He's now a senior editor at The Atlantic from This Week published a piece in the Atlantic titled An Inaugural Celebration at Rings Hollow, in which he wrote that the lesson of Trump's inauguration is the system has failed.
So that's pretty powerful statement.
The worst human being ever to enter the presidency just hours before the inauguration, the worst human being ever to enter the presidency, and I include all the slaveholders.
Well, that's uh that's pretty desperate.
The worst human being ever to enter the presidency, including all the slaveholders.
You think some people are taking this hard?
Uh it's a despicable, it's disgusting.
It's David Fromm.
Uh Charles Krauthammer at Fox describing Trump's inaugural address, said that it's the most aggressive, hyper and hostile speech for anyone in the foreign audience, our trade partners and allies ever given in an inaugural address.
The most aggressive, hyper, and hostile speech for anyone in the foreign audience, trade partners, allies ever given.
In an inaugural address.
To the phones we start in Catherine, Wichita, Kansas.
Welcome.
It's great to have you with us.
How are you doing?
Hi.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
It's a thrill to talk to you.
Thank you.
I have a question.
Do you think President Trump has ushered in an era of winning without the establishment?
Uh well, that's the what what let me before I answer that, let me get exactly what you mean by that.
What do you mean by winning without the are you asking me if I think Trump will be able to succeed without the establishment helping?
Well, no, what I actually meant was in the past, the Republican establishment has always said that we need to hang together, and then here recently they said that they could win without the base.
Oh, oh, you're talking about.
Are we now in are we now in an era where the people can win without the establishment?
Okay, do you mean Republican establishment or just the establishment?
The establishment.
Uh well, we did.
I mean, if you you if you want to look at the presidential election as a victory without the establishment, you'd have to say that's what it was.
I mean, the establishment was a raid everywhere the establishment is against Donald Trump, and after this speech today, they're gonna stay there.
One of two things is going to happen after today's inaugural address, because there if if there was any hope on the part of the establishment that Trump was going to moderate, that all of this up to now has just been theatrical for his base voters, and that now it's time for the rubber to meet the road.
Now that it's time for the pedal to hit the medal, Trump is going to do what the only intelligent thing is to do, and that's become one of us.
And uh include us and take our advice and advance our agenda.
And that is not happening.
If anything, Donald Trump tripled down today on every theme of his campaign.
So we're just gonna have to wait and see.
One of two things are going to happen.
The establishment is either going to, for self-preservation, do what they can to tag along or try to undermine.
And frankly, folks, I'm gonna vote for try to undermine.
And that's not a new prediction, and it's not the result of a new train of thought.
I don't know how often most of you had a chance to listen during the campaign, but I spent a lot of time explaining the psychology of the establishment and how they are being affected by Trump's candidacy, and the fact that he just kept winning state after state after state, was not imploding, was not being defeated, wasn't going away.
Look, the esta for many of the people in the establishment, what's the best way to describe this?
It is the existence of the establishment and membership in it.
That is 90% of life.
What the establishment does is actually ancillary, except for those things that are oriented towards self-preservation, like a bureaucracy.
The purpose of a bureaucracy is to maintain itself.
And thus bureaucracies do not solve problems.
And if they do, they create new ones in the process.
Bureaucrats and the bureaucracy never does things in such a way that people could conclude, well, we don't need you anymore.
Well, it's the same thing with the establishment.
The establishment, folks, I don't know how best uh to describe it, it's a it's a the term elite is apropos.
And by that, the members of the establishment do think they are better people.
They are a higher quality and a higher class of human being.
And that is why many of them are condescending to people they consider inferior, and that's why they hold many of the middle class in contempt.
It's it's just a it's a it's a character trait of the establishment.
Any say the European Union, same thing there.
I mean, the European elites, it's the same psychology.
And preserving that establishment is objective number one.
And whatever policy and uh ideas the establishment collectively hold are second and third in importance.
But it's and sometimes it's difficult to separate.
I mean, when you're preserving the establishment, there are specific policies designed to do so, like throwing more and more power to the U.N., surrendering more and more power, say, over the court system or climate change or what have you to the UN.
Uh that is preserving the establishment while combining an idea or a set of ideas or policies.
But the first and foremost thing is the preservation of the establishment.
I don't, I just can't see them letting Trump.
I I can't see them abandoning that establishment, who they are and what it means to them to get on the Trump bandwagon.
You know, that's it.
A fairly good analogy for this, and that would be Reagan in this sense.
The establishment Republicans never really liked Reagan.
They resented Reagan.
In his case, it was simply because he was conservative and believed that government's the problem, and of course, to the establishment, government is everything.
It's first, second, third, it's everything.
And here comes Reagan as a conservative wanting to de-emphasize it.
So they go into protection mode, preserve the establishment, preserve government, and they resented, but Reagan was so popular, and he won two landslides, 48 and 49 states, that during his term in office, they did everything they could to be part of it.
They wanted to be on the White House staff, they wanted to be campaign staff, they were they wanted to be close to it because they love being close to power and the bright lights shining on it and what they want to be seen.
They also want to take the occasion of closeness to try to undermine.
And they did try to undermine Reagan any number of ways and times.
And when Reagan's two terms were over, I mean, it was he was gone, and they put him on the plane, he went back to California, and they immediately tried to erase all vestiges of Reagan.
That's probably what we can expect here.
But they can be defeated.
They just have been.
And right now, the Republicans in Congress are looking at years out way beyond, even if Trump's two terms.
The Republicans are set up right now, folks, to be the majority party in the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Supreme Court for 25 years if they play it right.
And in that 25 years, the first eight maximum are Trump.
So I think that they will do whatever they can to maximize party power.
If it means helping Trump fulfill his agenda, if Trump remains popular, they're going to be looking at opinion polls like you can't believe public approval polls.
And as long as Trump's there at 50% or hovering near it, they're going to be on board.
Don't worry, we'll be here guiding you through this and helping you understand on a daily basis what is happening in regard to all of this.
So Chris Matthews at PMSNBC referred to the Trump inaugural address as Hitlerian or Hitlerian, if that helps you understand.
No, I'm not kidding.
Chris Matthews described the Trump inaugural address as Hitleran or Hitlerian.
Like Hitler, for those of you in Rio Linda.
Telling you, their heads blew.
I'm I am sure that there is blood on cameras today as drive-by's heads exploded out there listening to this.
There's a pastor who uh told Donald Trump in the Bible, rain is a sign of God's blessing.
And it started to rain, Mr. President, when you came to the platform.
Which it did.
You know, when Trump started speaking, I'm watching it here, and all of a sudden, uniform people start running down the aisle behind him.
So what the heck's going on here?
And then I f that they were bringing umbrellas and little plastic.
Do you realize here these establishment types and they're holding trash bags on their heads to protect themselves for the rain?
Can you know what a come down that is?
I mean, the establishment, they have Gucci umbrellas and stuff.
And here they've got trash bags being passed out to uh to shield themselves from the rain.
I thought, what a what a calm down.
And the drive-by media, the drive-by media, upset that Trump did not mention Hillary Clinton in his inaugural address.
The Hill.com, President Trump didn't mention his former opponent, Hillary Clinton, during his address Friday, despite her presence at the Capitol.
I don't know.
I saw a couple shots of the Clintons.
And it was, and this is understandable.
This is the last place they wanted to be.
They looked like they were just not there.
I mean, blank expressions on their face.
It was it this had to be.
So demoralizing for them.
Yeah, yeah, she did, you gotta say.
She had the class to show up.
Uh Carmel, Indiana.
This is Brian.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Welcome to EIB Network.
How are you doing?
Hi, I'm Greg Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
So as we finally close the book on Barack Obama, former President Barack Obama.
I I think it's safe to say that for his entire term, you really lived in his head.
Rent-free.
Uh playing the trumpet.
Is that something that that was surprising to you or something that you expected?
Yeah, I I've had people ask me if if uh if if I was impressed, because every Friday night, there's Obama talking about me on Dateline, and last week he mentioned me always as the guy who stopped him from succeeding.
I was always the guy that prevented the Republicans from cooperating with him.
He came into office telling the Republicans not to listen to me anymore, and he left office complaining that they still did.
But I'm surprised that he would say it, yes.
I'm totally surprised he would say it.
I mean, let's be honest here, folks.
He is the most powerful leader in the world as president of the United States, and I am a guy on the radio.
In his world, I ought not even exist.
I ought not be anything more than a pimple on a bull's butt, but it obviously wasn't the case.
That does surprise me.
I have to admit to you that it does.
It was Franklin Graham who told Donald Trump, Mr. President, rain is one of God's blessings.
And since it rained on you when you began to speak, you were blessed by God.
A record number of prayers, by the way.
I knew it had to be.
Record number of prayers at this inauguration.
And we have another obscene profit break here at the top of the hour.
We have one big one left.
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