Posted on 03/09/2018 12:01:30 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Just a couple things I want to get here first. I can’t prove it, but my instincts — my intelligence guided by experience — tells me that there is a building, very deep concern that might be already bordering on panic on the Democrat side. And you begin to see very tiny indications of it after the announcement late yesterday that Trump accept the invitation of the potbelly dictator in North Korea, Kim Jong-un, to go over there and have a chat. CNN was so overwhelmed by this last night that they blew it.
They had, for the briefest time, the most effusive praise for Donald Trump they have ever had and ever will have again, with Erin Burnett OutFront even admitting (paraphrased), “It looks like, if Trump gets this done, he’s gonna go down as a great president, and there’s nothing we can do about it. We’re not gonna be able to say otherwise!” Other CNN guests got close to echoing it — ditto MSNBC — for about an hour.
And then after that, it’s like they all got a memo and were threatened with being thrown out of the club if they didn’t shape up. After the first hour, they all began to talk about, “Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing! Kim Jong-un is playing Trump! Kim Jong-un, he… Oh, my God, this is gonna be a disaster. Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing. Trump doesn’t study; Trump has no idea.
“The Obama team spent years, months, preparing for talks with North Korea and other despots, and Trump’s gonna go in there in a couple of months? Oh, no, it’s gonna be a disaster.” But that one hour where — for some reason — they were unable to do anything but praise this is what tells me real panic is setting. And, by the way, there’s other evidence of it, too, which we’ll get to as the program unfolds. Remember on Tuesday they were supposed to make, Texas blue.
The primary in Texas was supposed to spell the end of Ted Cruz and the end of Republicans, there’s gonna be a blue wave. Democrats — motivated, inspired by hatred and outrage — were gonna show up and they were just gonna smother the Republican turnout, and it didn’t happen. Republican turnout was a record high, much larger than the Democrat turnout. Disappointing, shocking, stunning. They create these fantasies that they then live in and then reality sets in like a cold truth, and they just can’t deal with it.
And then a poll that they all trust came out and showed the Democrats are trailing big time in five or six Senate races — Democrat incumbents — where Trump’s approval number in those states is even higher than the percentage of the vote he got in 2016. There is real panic over this, despite their ongoing confidence that they’re gonna be getting rid of Trump sometime this summer. Let me tell you something else, by the way, on this Russiagate thing.
I believe now… I can reliably tell you that I have learned — I believe — that the original objective of the Trump-Russia collusion was to get rid of Trump by July of 2017. I think that was the objective, and I think that’s what they all thought they were going to be able to do. This entirely made-up story that is perhaps one of the biggest political scandals of our lifetimes, ladies and gentlemen… I believe the people practicing it, the people engaged in it — which includes the intelligence community and the American media working hand in hand.
I believe they believed they were gonna get rid of Trump by last summer, and that hasn’t happened, obviously. And that whole thing has produced a big, fat zero. Now, they may believe they’re winning the day-to-day perception war with the Drive-By Media. But they are not causing Trump to lose any of his support. His support is growing. His approval numbers are growing. The frustration, anger, and hatred on the left is what’s growing. And it’s expanding. And that kind of poison is not helpful.
But it is growing. They are not meeting their expectations. They are not accomplishing what they set out to do. Remember, these are the people in the establishment. They run the show. They’re not used to not getting their way. They’re not used to accomplishing what they set out to accomplish, particularly within the boundaries of the ruling class. Trump is still there, and they’re beside themselves. They’re now throwing it up against the wall.
There’s nothing to this scandal, but they’re still trying to make it look like there is. Now this announcement on North Korea — and Trump’s not supposed to be able to do this! “Only really smart people like Obama and Madeleine Albright are supposed to be able to do this. Trump can’t do this. What the hell is happening?” they’re asking themselves. “Why didn’t Kim Jong-un ask to meet with Obama? That’s who he should have wanted to talk to.
“Obama’s Mr. Wizard. Obama’s the Wizard of Smart. That’s who Kim Jong-un should have wanted to talk to.” I think he did, and Obama said no. Not sure which — I’m not sure which of that, but they’re offended! “None of this should be happening! The economy shouldn’t be doing what it’s doing under Trump, ’cause Trump’s an idiot, doesn’t know what he’s doing. Trump’s a bull in a china shop. Trump’s an embarrassment.”
Trump is literally blowing up so much of what they believe, so much of what they think they’ve established and etched in stone. He’s blowing up it up, and they are unable to deal with this. Byron York tweeted yesterday a reminder about one of the jokes Trump told at the Gridiron Dinner on Saturday night. Trump actually told a joke at the gridiron dinner about Kim Jong-un. “I won’t rule out direct talks with Kim Jong-un. I just won’t.
“As far as the risk of dealing with a madman’s concerned, that’s his problem, not mine.” Self-deprecating humor of the first order, comically fun and hilarious: Trump making fun of himself. But you know what makes great comedy: The truth. The element of truth is what makes comedy edgy and laughingly fun. So let’s go to this program, rewinding the hands of time. April 11th, 2017. I was asked my opinion on Trump’s approach to North Korea.
BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP
RUSH ARCHIVE: What’s everybody so concerned about here? This Little Kim guy had been launching his putrid little missiles trying to hit us for how many years now, and then his father prior to that. And they keep plunking in the Pacific Ocean someplace. Look, keep aiming, Little Kim. I think our message is, “Keep aiming, Little Kim — and if you get close to us, you’re gonna pay the price for it.” The North Koreans should have been taken out years ago.
Clinton should have taken them out. You remember Madeleine Albright and some of the ridiculous things she said about the North Koreans, and it then it continued with the Bush administration really just huffed and puffed. I think what Trump is employing — and you leftists ought to love this. I think Trump is employing the madman strategy. These are genuine madmen in North Korea.
These people are literally off-the-charts insane, and it might be something as simple as inbreeding. Who the hell knows. These people are odd. You have to admit it, folks. So Trump may be thinking, “You know what? I’m gonna make them think I’m unpredictable. I’m gonna make them think that I am a madman. I’m gonna reverse the table on ’em, and I’m gonna make them think I’m the one that’s unpredictable.” Because they have been able to launch their putrid little missiles here for decades with the knowledge that nobody’s gonna do anything about it.
END ARCHIVE CLIP
RUSH: Bingo. Bingo. And what’s Trump joke about Saturday night? “I won’t rule out direct talks with Kim Jong-un. I just won’t. As far as the risk of dealing with a madman’s concerned, that’s his problem, not mine.” I knew it! Folks, I knew it! That’s why I said it in April of last year, April of 2017. And what has happened? When Trump calls the guy “rocket man,” when Trump threatens to fire back, when Trump says his button is bigger than Kim Jong-un’s…
Remember, Kim Jong-un, after a couple of these episodes actually called some people in Washington, D.C., and asked them, “Who is this guy?” He asked them for help in understanding Donald Trump. Trump purposely portrayed himself as unpredictable and more maybe off the charts than Kim Jong-un even is. All Kim Jong-un knew prior to that was these buttoned-down, ruling class guys like Obama — fastidious, sophisticated, crease in the slacks, you know, that kind of stuff.
The striped pants crowd from the State Department. Madeleine Albright waddling around over there huffing and puffing and doing nothing, and then here comes somebody who’s firing it right back and says, “Hey, if you do it where you did it, you’re not gonna exist. I don’t care what China thinks.” “Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait, wait!” There’s no question in my mind it worked. So late yesterday afternoon outside the White House, the South Korean national security adviser, Chung Eui-Yong, spoke to reporters about his meeting with the Trumpster.
EUI-YONG: I explained to President Trump that his leadership and his maximum pressure policies together with international solidarity brought us to this juncture. I expressed President Moon Jae-in’s personal gratitude for President Trump’s leadership. Kim Jong-un said he is committed to denuclearization. Kim pledged that North Korea would refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests. He understands that the routine joint military exercises between the Republic of Korea and the United States must continue, and he expressed his eagerness to meet Trump as soon as possible.
RUSH: Yeah.
EUI-YONG: President Trump officiated the briefing and said he would meet Kim Jong-un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization.
RUSH: “I explained to President Trump that his leadership and his maximum pressure policy together with international solidarity brought us to this juncture.” It’ll yet another thing that would not have happened had Hillary Clinton won or any of the other Republicans running against Trump. This probably wouldn’t happen. Now, again, we can’t say how it’s gonna end up. We don’t know what’s gonna happen here. But the left is panicky and upset and totally discombobulated by this. None of this was supposed to even be possible. None of it. And there’s much more to this. And, of course, there’s even more, and it’s fabulous as we begin to chalk up and note the Democrat reactions to this.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Here’s Erin Burnett last night on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront during discussion about the, “Oh, my God. Trump’s gonna meet with Kim Jong-un? How the hell is that happening?”
Erin Burnett: Trump will be 'great president' if he solves North Korea, 'no way around that'
BURNETT: Just an extraordinary evening and, of course, opening the door to the big question. If President Trump can truly solve this problem, that would be going down as a great president, and there’s no way around that. That is the reality here.
RUSH: Oh, my… Oh, no! I mean, there was panic behind the scenes at CNN. “She didn’t say that, did she?” So they spent the rest of the night basically unsaying it and then they unsaid it over the night. Even at MSNBC, they had a slip and started talking about potential greatness here, until somebody sent them, I’m sure, a fax or an email or something, a minimum wage went out.
When these people are left to their own devices without whoever they hear from in central headquarters, you know, you do get a wide disparity of thought. But when the memo goes out the way they’re all gonna treat it, then it all changes and they all start sounding the same, and it took about a half hour for that to happen.
But they soon just make up another fantasy. Its quite insane.
De-nuclearization, peace treaty signed, American troops finally brought home after nearly 65 years.
Would be really nice....
De-nuclearization, peace treaty signed, American troops finally brought home after nearly 65 years.
Would be really nice....
Yes, this would be on par with Reagan bringing down the wall and Soviet Union. Watch out next for the scramble for the “peace dividend”.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has now been proven to be more than just a skin rash
It is proven now to be a terminally fatal disease.
And think of the carry over to what will happen with Iran. Another Domino will fall
And I say that only after great contemplation.
Mind you, I am not now and never will be a die-hard supporter of ANY elected official, including Trump. For me, an official has to EARN my confidence and trust. Hillary never would have achieved that. I have kept a wary eye on Trump.
So far he is wildly exceeding expectations.
The next sixty days are going to be monumental for his term of office. Reluctantly and without precedence, I am finding myself confident that he will succeed with North Korea in some form or another.
May not be full disarmament, but it will be more mileage than the past six decades of administrations have achieved.
I have no doubt that he will will pull it off.
How the World Really Ends
Bttt.
Absolutely historic and absolute horror for the left who secretly dream of nuclear weapons of their communist brethren. The American liberal is just as dangerous as any overseas enemy.
Artillery doesn’t maintain itself. They’ve got 64,000 pieces on the Nork side. Not sure the last time any of it has been fired.
If the Norks really, really had to go to war, they’d need a line of credit such that they could procure what they needed in order to make that happen.
We caught both China and Russia violating the embargo, and pants them when we did.
I also think Mattis has no lying in him. I think he values human life, and doesn’t want to kill anyone. I also think, however, he’s made a peace with being put in a position where if he is forced to, he will do it on a biblical scale, so as to preserve the life worth preserving.
That’s what the military is for. Destroying, utterly, the urge in your enemy to make war. It’s never changed.
I hope we get the chance to put people in there to make sure it happens. Canadians, Swedes, Poles, Ukrainians would be a good mix of inspectors.
None of this, none of it, would have been possible without having become energy independent. This is one of Trump’s crowning achievements.
Yeah, but how is this possible? This is Trump's first foray into politics. Like the GOPe and Dems told us, he's totally "unqualified" for the job... /sarc
Wrong. Building skyscrapers in big cities calls for extraordinary political skills. But also financial, management, showmanship, and marketing skills.
In reality, given his broad experience as a mega-entrepreneur, Trump is the most qualified person ever to run for the office of President.
Even still, as you've said, you've got to be pleasantly surprised at this performance to date...
Ronald Reagan redux...
It’s gonna be a great show——little Kim and big Don.
Winning is wonderful; given the opportunity, very easy to become accustomed to WINNING!
Watching the other side attempt to spin his win is PRICELESS!
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