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January 24, 2017, Tuesday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	You know, all that talk about how Barack Obama was going to be the post-racial president, and Barack Obama was going to be the post-partisan president, all that.
	And of course, it was all bunk.
	As a country ended up more divided.
	And we have been in many, many moons under Obama, but yet look at what the Trumpster is doing here.
	He's out there.
	He's literally stealing one of the hugest coalitions of the Democrat Party, and that's organized labor.
	He's literally stealing it from them while they watch it happen.
	And this all began with the Democrats back in November of 2011 admitting that they were writing off as an electoral objective, the white working class voters of America.
	This was an Obama initiative, and they did it.
	The Democrat Party made a tactical, well, actually strategic decision to abandon the white working class because they had a they had a grander idea.
	They were going to go out and they were gonna, they were gonna, they were gonna appeal to all of these disparate minorities.
	The sexual minorities, the gender minorities, the racial minorities, the ethnic minorities, the religious minorities, the vaginal majorities, minorities.
	I mean, every minority you can think of, they were going to go get them all, and they couldn't do that while also appealing to the white working class, because in the Democrats' new construct, the white working class was the enemy.
	The white working class, white people in general, were the people doing all the discriminating against these new precious minorities.
	And I think what got the Democrats all hyped up on this, you know, they believe what they read in their own media.
	And their own media has been touting this upcoming approaching, can't do anything about it demographic shift.
	In the United States, which we've heard that the uh demographic shift is such that the white majority's days are numbered in this country, and as an aside, justifiably so, because the white majority created all this discrimination and slavery and racism and bigotry and discrimination and Christianity, and so it's good that they're losing their problem.
	Problem is for the Democrats that the white population of the country is still 78%.
	So they maybe were a little early here, and by writing off such a huge percentage of the white working class in terms of people they're going to seek votes from, they calculated really badly.
	There aren't enough.
	Even if you get all of these obscure minorities, and then even if you get all of them to show up and vote, you still are nowhere near overpowering or outnumbering the white working majority that you have just sent packing.
	And we're seeing the results of this.
	As I keep telling you, the Democrats have just lost electoral seat after election.
	I mean, they're down over 1,200 seats starting with the 2010 midterms, and they only have uh 16 governorships in the country.
	And now, have you heard what is happening in the race for the new chair of the Democrat national.
	Yeah, I'm gonna get all this Trump stuff.
	Just hang on, folks.
	I'll tell you something.
	What Trump's doing is amazing, but I am also focused on the opposition.
	And because I find that's where the funniest.
	That's when when liberals are out of power, that's when they get funny, and that's when it's safe to laugh at them, always keeping them at arm's length.
	But if you doubt what I have just said, from the Daily Caller, we have the audio, we're working on getting it now.
	Sally Boynton Brown, a white woman running for chair of the Democrat National Committee.
	In other words, the woman who's going the person can head up the entire Democrat Party, the DNC, the job formerly held by Debbie Blabbermaus Schultz, Sally Boynton Brown said Yesterday that if she is chosen to lead the party, her job will be to quote, shut other white people down.
	Quote, my job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt, Brown said during a DNZ candidate forum.
	My job is to shut other white people down when they want to say, oh no, I'm not prejudiced.
	I'm a Democrat, I'm accepting.
	Brown bellowed during the forum, which was hosted by Joy Reid at PMS NBC.
	She began her three-minute pitch by chiding white Democrat leaders over what she said is the party's failure to discuss discuss the Black Lives Matter movement.
	Now there's a winning majority movement for you.
	And this is the Democrat Party today.
	The white majority is the focus of evil, and now the person that wants to head to DNC, and she's not the only one.
	Some of these other candidates also have the same attitude.
	So the Democrats look like they're about ready to make this official, not just an Obama campaign strategy, but now an official movement to discard fully.
	Well, I don't know what percentage, 77% of the white population, what percentage of that is white working class, but it doesn't matter.
	I mean, they just throw it away.
	In exchange for what they hope for is this demographic shift that's going to make all these minorities when you add them up, the new majority.
	And all they're doing is alienating their own constituency.
	Do you realize one of the bulk majorities of the or groups in the white working class is union people?
	And the Democrat Party has owned them forever.
	Frustratingly so.
	And now Donald Trump is literally stealing some of these union people right out from under the Democrats while they look at it happen and apparently don't have any problem with it.
	I mean, it's it's it's anybody headed to postpartisan America here looks like Donald Trump.
	Now, I realize, now don't jump to any conclusions.
	I realize some of you might be saying, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait just a minute, Rush.
	I hope you are not all in on this.
	I know what you're saying.
	Trump, a Republican gaining the praise and favor of union leaders who are questionable.
	I mean, we've had our problems with them.
	Are you sure you want to jump all?
	I'm not jumping in on it, folks.
	I'm I'm just telling you what's going on here.
	I think it's fascinating to watch.
	It is, and I tell you, official Washington.
	If you watched Fox last night, if you watch CNN, there was a narrative.
	And the narrative, Trump had the greatest day of his presidency yesterday.
	The narrative is this that Trump had a horrible day Saturday.
	I mean, virtually everybody on Fox, it didn't matter how many panelists they had, every panelist said the same thing.
	Trump had a horrible day Saturday.
	Oh my God, it was embarrassing.
	First Spicer, then Trump goes over to CIA.
	Oh, it was just embarrassingly bad.
	We were all working.
	And then yesterday came, and they said Trump got a second chance at his first day.
	And Monday was his real first day.
	We'll throw Saturday out.
	And what they were talking about was just what a great day.
	I mean, from the morning till the night, Trump agenda after agenda, meeting after meeting, stole the unions, Trans-Pacific Partnership sent packing.
	This morning, the Keystone Pipeline and the Dakota thing also sent packing.
	Uh, and it is monumental.
	He's just signing executive orders.
	He's reading them before he signs them.
	I noticed that.
	He's actually reading these things.
	That's good.
	That's good.
	I Obama didn't read them.
	I didn't see him read.
	Let me just put the John Henry Trump actually taking the time to read these things.
	And he doesn't ask an aide what he's signing.
	He reads it and then reads it to people, reads it to the media, reads it, and then signs it, puts his signature on there.
	But it is, I mean, the politics of this are just flat out stunning.
	And I it was, I think much of this is what a lot of Trump supporters foresaw.
	I think a lot of people supported Trump, knowing full well or hoping full well, that this is the kind of thing that would happen.
	Because I think one of the things that's uh not quite understood by the drive-bys as they look at people that supported Trump.
	They look at people that attended Trump rallies.
	They still don't know what they're dealing with.
	They don't know what they're dealing with in Trump yet, I still maintain, but they're really, really out to lunch when it comes to Trump supporters.
	They have no idea.
	They are wrong in many of their assessments about why Trump supporters support Trump.
	And the one thing they leave out, I mean, they get some of it right.
	The one thing they leave out, they have no clue.
	They think they do, but they don't know precisely just how much opposition there is to the Democrat Party in Trump supporters.
	They haven't the slightest idea.
	They are underestimating that aspect of the Trump support base.
	They are underestimating the animosity that Trump supporters have for liberalism and for the Democrat Party and what they have done to this country.
	It's a combination.
	Trump supporters are a combination of things.
	There's there's varying degrees of literal support, visceral support for Trump, and there are Trump supporters who support him for those reasons, plus they just have had it.
	They have had their fill of the destruction that has been brought about by the Democrat Party.
	And I can go down the list, you know the things, Obamacare, immigration, taxes.
	That leads back to Obamacare, economic stagnation, and the focus.
	Let's not forget to mention this.
	Many people who support Trump are very much aware that the Democrat Party considers them the enemy in this country.
	The white working class, the Democrat Party has signaled them as the enemy.
	They have politically behaved as though they're the enemy.
	And the white working class is very much aware that the Democrat Party considers them the enemy or the problem.
	The location, the focal point of all the supposed wrongs and ills in our country, racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, all of those things.
	They are headquartered in the white working class.
	And the white working class is very much aware of it.
	The Democrats are digging their grave each and every day while they think they are rebuilding.
	And it's I mean, it's just it's great to watch.
	And there's a the jump our old buddy Jonathan Martin, who used to be a politico, who occasionally would send me an email asking for a contribution for me, the story was right.
	Doesn't do that much anymore.
	It's okay.
	No big deal.
	He's not the New York Times.
	And there's a piece in the New York Times by Jonathan Martin today about how the Democrats are going to come back, how the Democrats are going to rebuild, what the Democrats are going to do to put it all back together.
	What the Democrats are going to do to start winning elections, starting in the midterms of 2018, the headline, Angry Democrats study the Tea Party's Playbook.
	Are you kidding me?
	I read this story, and I started laughing and I started cheering, and I was at the same time incredulous.
	Angry Democrats study the Tea Party's playbook.
	Now what are they going to learn from it?
	See, that's always they can study it all they want.
	Well, what are they going to learn from it?
	Well, let's investigate here.
	Freshly energized protesters are taking to the streets.
	Members of Congress are being confronted in their districts by constituents angry over health care, and wealthy donors are turning fear into action.
	Eight years after Republicans united after a stinging electoral defeat to oppose Obama, Democrats are channeling an even deeper anxiety over Trump and a far shallower defeat into a newfound burst of organizing.
	And what the next paragraph says is that the Democrats hope to create a Tea Party equivalent from the left.
	Now wait a minute, I know what you're all saying.
	Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	What about Occupy Wall Street?
	I thought that's what that was.
	Occupy Wall Street.
	Remember when the Tea Party sprang to life, the Democrats went out and created Occupy Wall Street and tried to tell us that it was organic.
	And it wasn't.
	They bought it, they paid for it, they organized it, they cherry picked it.
	There was nothing organic or natural about Occupy Wall Street.
	Why do the Democrats need to do anything?
	They already have Occupy Wall Street and they've got Black Lives Matter.
	Well, apparently, Occupy Wall Street's days have come to a close.
	It had a specific time frame and agenda, and now Occupy Wall Street's over.
	But the Tea Party isn't.
	The first mistake the Democrats are making, the Republicans did not create the Tea Party.
	Right here in the story, angry Democrats study Tea Party playbook.
	What they're missing, they can study it all they want.
	What they're missing is something they will never admit.
	The Tea Party is genuinely organic.
	It sprang up out of Middle America.
	It had no Congressional or Republican Party membership.
	There were no ties.
	The Tea Party had nothing to do.
	In fact, the Tea Party was as much opposed to the Republican establishment as it was the Democrat establishment.
	The Republican Party didn't create the Tea Party.
	The Republican Party didn't organize the Tea Party to go out and do its bidding.
	The Tea Party existed despite both political establishments.
	So the Democrats are going to go out and create a Tea Party equivalent when they've already done it.
	I can't buy Wall Street.
	They tried it again with Black Lives Matter.
	It isn't gonna work.
	It isn't gonna work because it isn't natural.
	It's like asking people to call Washington, give them a phone number, call Washington, raise hell, and then people do it.
	That's not organic.
	If you have to tell people to call Washington, then it otherwise would not have happened, right?
	So that's why I've never participated in telling people to call Washington.
	Only did it once to demonstrate what would happen if I did, because it isn't real.
	The Tea Party was real.
	Real people who'd never been in politics before, fed up with what was happening, organized, got involved.
	There's none of that on the Democrat side.
	I mean that already doesn't exist.
	So they want to create what they think was phony.
	The Tea Party to them was a political construct.
	Republican Party behind it.
	They're clueless.
	They remain clueless.
	Not that they're no longer dangerous.
	Don't misunderstand.
	They're clueless.
	Anyway, that sets the table.
	We have lots to do today, a lot to explain, a lot to unfold, a lot to uncover.
	We continue after this.
	Don't go anywhere.
	Okay, here's that wacko.
	Sally Boynton Brown, she's one of the candidates for chairwoman, Democrat National Committee.
	This happened last night at George Washington University, the first of two sound bites here with.
	I'm a white woman.
	I don't get it.
	I am pleased and honored to be here today to have the conversation.
	I am so excited that we're here.
	And I am listening because that's my job.
	My job is to listen to the issues.
	My job is to listen and be a voice.
	And my job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt.
	My job is to shut other white people down when they want to say, oh no, I'm not prejudiced.
	Oh no, you're not pre-yes, you are prejudiced.
	My job is to tell white people, yes, you are prejudiced.
	My job is to shut white people up.
	My job is to shut up 77% of the country's population because they're racist and sexist and they're overbearing and they're mean-spirited and all the other things too.
	And my job is to shut them up.
	And there is the front runner for hip honcho of the Democrat National Committee.
	I thought long and hard about ignoring this, because now that I've called attention to it, it's gonna go either way.
	They either hate me so much they'll make her chairman, or they'll be so alarmed at this stuff having been pointed out that they'll yank her.
	They'll grab the hook and yank.
	I don't want her to get yanked.
	I want her to be the chairman.
	Here's the next bite.
	I'm a Democrat.
	I'm accepting.
	My job is to make sure that they get that they have privilege.
	And until we shut our mouths and we listen to those people who don't.
	And we lift our people up so that we all have equity in this country.
	Right.
	So that we are all fighting alongside each other.
	Right.
	So that we are all on the same page.
	And we clearly get where we're going.
	Right.
	And you white people, you're going to hear about white privilege from me.
	And we're not going to have any of it in the Democrat Party to screw that.
	White privilege is the reason there's so many problems in this.
	Make her chairman, please.
	Whoever you people in the committee are that vote, make her chairman.
	She has the endorsement of the EIB network and Rush Limbaugh personally, Sally Boynton Brown for chairwoman of the Democrat National Committee.
	Please do it.
	And do you know that there was unhappiness and anger and disagreement in the Feminazi March?
	And you know what the anger with the transgenders are hysterical.
	They're mad.
	The transgenders are upset because the women's march was not inclusive to biological men who identify as women, and it presented an oppressive message that having a vagina is essential to womanhood, and we can't have that in the women's movement.
	If we're gonna say that a vagina is essential to womanhood, then we're being discriminatory, and and then the transgenders got all mad because they thought they weren't included.
	They started railing on the cisgenders, the CIS.
	You know what that is, you know what a cisgender is?
	You ever heard that?
	Let me explain it when we get back.
	All right, so the headline of the story, transgender activists upset over white cis women march.
	Uh CIS.
	So do you know what assists?
	Oh, you do now.
	You looked it up.
	Ah, okay.
	Well, a lot of people, I'm sure, read this and said, what, what, what, what's this?
	And this particular story, Washington Free Beacon, transgender activists are upset that the uh Feminazzi March over the weekend was not inclusive to biological men who identify as women, as the protest presented an oppressive message that having a vagina is essential to womanhood.
	See, in the Democrat, this is mainstream Democrat Party stuff.
	I mean, the Democrat Party, the media portrayed what happened in this protest as normal as the sun rising and setting every day.
	This is one of the things remarkable about it.
	This collection of abject insane lunatics was portrayed as normal.
	It was more normal than the Trump inauguration, which is the result of a fraud and a stolen election.
	But the women's march, now that's normalcy, and that's what they try to convey.
	And now we find out that transgender activists were not happy at all during the Feminazi March because men, biological men, for those of you in real linda, that means men with a package who identify as women, who think they're women, who want to be women, but they've got the package, they were not allowed.
	And so the oppressive message of the Feminazi March was discriminatory.
	And that means, or that is that having a vagina is essential to womanhood.
	That is a controversial statement.
	That is we're talking about we're not talking about a couple or three fringe people here.
	We're talking about what has become the base of the Democrat Party.
	I mean, you heard the media celebrating the numbers.
	Lord, there were millions And millions and millions out there, and they were all over the country, not just all over the country, they were all over the world.
	And a bunch of people were upset because apparently thinking that a vagina is essential to womanhood is discriminatory.
	And so the trannies, the transgender activists, they were upset because to them this was a white cisgender march.
	Let me save you the trouble.
	Cisgender simply means you're a woman, you're born a woman, you're a woman.
	That makes you a cisgender woman, as opposed to a transgender woman who used to be a male, or still is a male, but you want to be or think of yourself as a woman, that makes you a tranny.
	But if you were born a woman and you like it and you're happy, you're not just a woman.
	No, no, no, no.
	In the tranny community, you are noted as cisgender, CIS gender.
	And the cisgender crowd apparently ran this march over the objections of the transgenders, who are one-tenth of one percent.
	And I got my question yesterday.
	How in the world, why in the world?
	How does transgenderism even have anything to do with liberalism?
	And there's an answer to that.
	It's not a rhetorical question.
	The answer to that is meant to be explanatory and illustrative.
	What is transgenderism have to do with any ideology, but the fact that it does.
	The fact that transgenderism is exclusively tied to liberalism, ought to tell you something about it.
	We have a couple of more sound bites before we move on to Trump.
	And I want to spend a little bit more time in this New York Times piece where the Democrats are going to try to recreate the Tea Party as a means of regaining strength.
	They're so clueless.
	It's just it's it's it's more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
	But we have a couple of more sound bites from Sally Boynton Brown, who has uh who has promised to silence white voices.
	She's running for chairman, Democrat National Committee.
	Her job is to shut white people down when they talk or when they interrupt.
	There are two more bites from this babe as she was going through the motion.
	She's selling herself, she's campaigning for chairmanship.
	This is not just rhetoric.
	This is life or death.
	This moment in our country, the Democratic Party has the opportunity to do something different.
	We have the opportunity to really confront the fact that we have not been in alignment with our values.
	We've been talking a lot of smack.
	Right.
	We need to make sure that our actions and our words and our values all match.
	And around the issue of race, we are so far out of alignment, I don't even know the way back.
	This is on you, you want to hear all that's wrapped up, and you've got guilt.
	You've got narcissism, you've got self-loathing.
	Good lord, what the baggage this woman alone is carrying around.
	So the Democrat Party, her what she's saying here, it's life and death, folks.
	It's not just rhetoric when she says that she's gonna shut white people down.
	This moment in our Democrat Party has the opportunity to do something different.
	I think you're doing it, uh Sally.
	Hank, you I think you cornered the market here on different.
	And to say that you have not been in alignment with your values.
	Oh, but you are.
	That's the that's the juicy, maybe not a good choice of words.
	That's the delicious thing here.
	You are in total sync with your values.
	And they're sick.
	One more from Sally Boynton Brown in a way.
	I am talking to people of color because you have the answers.
	You can tell me as a leader what I need to do.
	And that's exactly what I'm gonna do is continue to have those conversations and continue to talk to people and make sure that every single system in our party is designed to give power back to the people, all people, but especially those people who have been disenfranchised in our country since our country started.
	So please, please, please, please.
	This is a conversation I want to have, and I am from Idaho.
	We are so white.
	So white, right?
	Like I have been reaching out and trying to connect to anybody of color that I can find, to be honest with you.
	There is self-loathing, there is guilt.
	And this woman wasn't born this way.
	I mean, nobody is.
	So how did she become this way?
	Well, the answers are obvious.
	You've got education, parents, maybe, media, media, huge.
	But this is this is just make her chairman, please.
	DNC elector.
	It's exactly what you need.
	You need somebody that needs to talk to people of color, because people of color have the answers that she doesn't have the answers.
	She's got so much guilt, need to give power back to and did you hear her say, by the way, uh people of color have been disenfranchised in our country since it started.
	I've been trying to tell people that the Democrat Party is now dominated by people who despise the American founding, who hate it and consider it to be the focus of evil in the world today.
	And that's who the Democrat Party is.
	And their leadership has facilitated this by not shutting this kind of insanity down.
	Harry Reid's embraced it, Pelosi's embraced it, Diane Feinstein's embraced, Schumer.
	They all they've embraced this because some of these people are really wealthy and send them a lot of money.
	Now, while all this is going on, Donald Trump is in the White House, literally making a difference.
	Donald Trump is in the White House literally unraveling and unwinding the Barack Obama agenda.
	Hour by hour, Trump is taking maybe a scalpel, maybe tactical political nuclear weapons.
	However, he is obliterating it.
	Details are coming up.
	Don't go away.
	Hi, welcome back.
	Great to have you.
	Al Rushmore, Cutting Edge Societal Evolution.
	and In addition to the union activity that Trump has uh scored major points with trans-specific partnership withdrawal.
	You've got these labor leaders, uh, many of whom we have been at odds with all of our lives.
	Many of these labor leaders, they've been in bed with the Democrat Party, they've been raising money for the Democrat Party, they've been funding the Democrat Party, and now they are in love with Trump as of today.
	Do you remember how uh the George W. Bush administration remembered that push for comprehensive immigration reform?
	And I've I mentioned that on a couple of occasions, emissaries from the White House were dispatched down here to get my mind right on it.
	I never was in favor of it.
	And I one of the things they told me in trying to convince me to support it was this is how we're gonna destroy the Democrat Party.
	If we can own the immigration issue, we can own the Hispanic population, we can wipe the Democrat Party out.
	Now, isn't it fascinating to me and to you that here's Donald Trump actually doing it, but not with immigration.
	He's well, in fact, he's gonna do it with immigration too.
	But the way Donald Trump's blowing up the Democrat Party is to take away an even bigger constituency than Hispanics.
	He's on the verge of co-opting labor.
	White working class people, the Democrat Party has decided they want no part of anymore, and here's Trump sweeping them up.
	And if this becomes permanent, and if Trump follows through on redoing these trade deals and canceling others, and cements this attachment of big labor to his administration, I don't care whether they're signing on with Republicans or not.
	The point is they're abandoning Democrats.
	And the Democrat Party has always been a coalition of const constituency groups that have a couple of things in common, but no more than a couple.
	You've had the feminists, you've had African Americans, you've had this minority, that minority, you've had big labor.
	The one thing they had in common was was love of big government and hatred of conservatism.
	And the Democrats throwing them away is a relevant step in Trump swooping them up.
	Trump is swooping them up with uh with policy.
	The Republicans aren't.
	This is a key point to make, and I think a lot of people, uh Trump, I mean, ran as a Republican, but uh these people are joining Trump.
	And this it's gonna be fascinating to watch this all play out.
	And I don't think the Democrats are aware of what's happening to them.
	They obviously aren't.
	And now the latest this morning, about 11 o'clock, Trump signed executive orders advancing the Keystone and Dakota pipelines.
	Those are two pipelines that Obama and the Democrats had stopped.
	And the reason they did was not climate change.
	It wasn't to protect the environment.
	Don't fall for any of that.
	Warren Buffett owns the trains, and it's the trains transporting the oil when you don't have a pipeline.
	So Warren Buffett was opposed to the pipelines, and Obama loved an association with Warren Buffett and Warren Buffett's money.
	And he also was able, and Hillary II able to scoop up environmentalist wacko money by denying the construction of the pipelines.
	But the left's objection to these pipelines has nothing to do with the environment, folks.
	Literally nothing to do because pipelines are imminently safer than trains and over-the-road trucks.
	Imminently safer, accidents or what have you.
	And by the way, the Dakota pipeline does not traverse one inch of sacred Indian ground.
	That's another lie that's been told.
	The reason the environmentalist wackos oppose these pipelines has everything to do with capitalism.
	They don't want anything built that powers a free market economy.
	They want government in charge of as much as they can secure.
	And they want the government being anti-capitalist and socialist, pro-socialist.
	And this is the primary.
	And they just they they shrouded their opposition to this in environmental terms to scoop up gullible voters like millennials and others who have been made to believe that the planet's not going to be habitable by the time they reach 65 because of climate change.
	It was a giant, giant snooker that Hillary and Obama and the Democrats were engaged in.
	Keystone protests are not about the transmission of oil or fossil fuel.
	It's all about anti-capitalism.
	Here's Trump, by the way, at the White House.
	This is late yesterday afternoon, with union leaders applauding Trump for terminating the trans-Pacific partners.
	This is a group that I know well, whether personally or just because I've hired thousands and thousands and thousands of you.
	We just officially terminated TPP.
	Thank you.
	I just signed a document, very powerful document.
	And we're going to have trade, but we're going to have one-on-one.
	And if somebody misbehaves, we're going to send them a letter of termination.
	30 days, and they'll either straighten it out, or we're gone.
	Not one of these deals where you can't get out of them, and it's a disaster.
	So you're going to have plenty of trade.
	But TPP wasn't the right way.
	And here's Trump to the union leaders after all this, telling them that uh he's going to bring jobs back to the United States.
	We're going to put a lot of people back to work.
	We're going to use common sense, and uh we're going to do it the way it's supposed to be done.
	We're going to stop the ridiculous trade deals that are taking everybody out of our country and taking companies out of our country.
	And it's going to be reversed.
	I think you can have a lot of companies come back to our country.
	Companies that left.
	Stop the tape.
	We've all heard Trump say that stuff.
	Here is Sean McGarvey, who is North America's building Trades union president speaking to the media about the meeting with Trump.
	We just had probably the most incredible meeting of our careers with the president and the vice president and the senior staff when the president laid out his plans about how he's going to handle trade, how he's going to invest in our infrastructure, and how he's going to level the playing field for construction workers and all Americans across this country.
	And then took the time to take everyone into the Oval Office and show them the seat of power in the world.
	The respect that the President of the United States just showed us, and when he shows it to us, he shows it that three million of our members in the United States was nothing short of incredible.
	And we will work with him and his administration.
	I want you to imagine, I won't get into it.
	Look, I know, I know, there's stuff to be said about this, but for the moment I want you to imagine you're Obama.
	And you're wherever you are, and you're sitting there, and every hour you watch your agenda shredded, and then you hear your former donors and people that loved you praise Trump the way they never praised you.
	It's got to be really hard.
	By the way, I'm told a Barack and Michelle are currently in the British Virgin Islands at Richard Branson's place.
	They got a ride on Branson's private jet.
	They headed straight for his lavish private island retreat, another free vacation.

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