By the way, greetings, and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, 800-282-2882. Posted on 06/16/2015 11:48:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Well, well, well, well, Snerdley and I just spent the last half hour sitting here watching Donald Trump's announcement that he's going to run for president, and we were laughing ourselves silly. I mean, it was a howl session. But, at the same time, there's no doubt in my mind -- I'll 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'm not comparing Trump's speech. Perot got going with a speech to the National Press Club that was on C-SPAN.
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's 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's running for president.
By the way, greetings, and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, 800-282-2882.
Let me just give you a little summary. We're still rolling tape here, assembling the audio sound bites. He started out -- it's hard to say when he started because there's so much here, I don't remember where it all happened. But, for example, he said about Mexico (imitating Trump), "They're sending us they're worst people. They're sending us criminals. They're sending us the poor. They're just bad people. Some of them may be good people but they're just bad people, and we don't need 'em." And it resonated. That's gonna resonate. There's a whole bunch of people, just like Perot resented.
And the Drive-By Media, by the way, they're already scoffing, they're 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's many things. He's a serious businessman, he's a performer -- he's got a performer's ego. That was on display today, and some days when you see him he's dead serious about things.
This was improv. It was by no means on a teleprompter. (laughing) He said at the end of the speech (imitating Trump), "And I'm gonna build a wall. It's gonna be the biggest, it's gonna be the best wall. There's isn't gonna be a better wall anywhere in the world. We're gonna build a wall on the Southern border and we're 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's so rich.
He said (imitating Trump), "I'm really rich. I'm really rich. I'm gonna show you in a minute here. I'm really rich." You know, it's things like that you just... (laughing) I'll 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's a secondary noise in the room, I can't hear what I'm trying to hear. Like two people talking at the same time, I'm not able to comprehend either of them.
So I'm watching, I've 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," 'cause I wanted to hear what Trump was saying. And I stopped myself. Wait a minute. Look what just happened here. There hasn't been a single other person give a political speech in years that if the phone rang and interrupted 'em I'd have been mad.
Now, don't misunderstand that. You know me, I'm not endorsing, haven't endorsed. I'm nowhere near any of that. I'm not even jazzed yet, folks. I have to tell you that this is all so premature, and it's 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're gonna end up. And I've had a premonition, after all we're talking about a presidential race with Hillary Clinton in it, last name is Clinton.
Oh, that's another thing. He's talking about the prison escape and he's attacking all the "losers" in the American government. (paraphrased) "Losers here, losers there. We're the dumbest people. China's beating us. China's wiping us out." But he loves China. He's building buildings all over China, but the Chinese (paraphrased), "We need smart people to beat the Chinese. We're losing. We're losing to ISIS." He said (paraphrased), "We should have had the oil in Iraq; instead Iran's got it.
"We're the losers. Our airports are Third World. Hell, I come back from Qatar, I come back from anywhere in the world, I've just been to a great airport, and I land at LAX and LaGuardia; it's a Third World airport! America has Third World airports." (clapping) The crowd's 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."
He can't believe they're 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't even capture these guys yet.
"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're ready to start shooting these guys!'" (laughing) That's when I lost it. "We're ready to shoot!" (laughing)
Snerdley's watching this thing with his mouth half open for long stretches of time. That's why we're 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't have won. They looked at the polling data in the postelection analytical data, and some people think that Bush would have lost anyway.
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's an absolute disaster. Could we just...? I mean, this is something that I don't get. This is what bamboozles. If that's the best the Democrats can come up with, they don't deserve to win anything. That's the best they've got, Mrs. Clinton is an absolute disaster.
The best thing she's got going for her is there's a (D) by her name and that's why she's gonna get the majority of votes that she's gonna get. Outside of that, I don't think... It's the same thing: I don't 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'm talking about just individually. I don't get the fear that I still find prevalent out there on the Republican side.
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RUSH: Okay we got the Trump sound bites. Let's get started here. They're not any particular order here. We just cherry-picked.
TRUMP: Our country is in serious trouble. We don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't have 'em. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal. They kill us. I beat China all the time
AUDIENCE: (applause)
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't exist, folks. They beat us all the time. When do we beat Mexico at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity.
Watch Donald Trump announce his candidacy for U.S. president
RUSH: This is gonna resonate with a lot of people, I guarantee you, and the Drive-Bys are gonna pooh-pooh it. They're gonna relegate it to the carnival characteristics of the campaign and so forth, but it's gonna resonate, just like Perot did. Do not misunderstand this. It is gonna resonate with a lot of, as you hear more of this. Now, this bit about we're in serious trouble. (summarized) "When was the last time we beat China? They kill us. When's the last time we beat Japan at anything?"
You know what a lot of people's reaction that's gonna be? (sniveling) "But should we be beating anybody? Why can't we cooperate? We can't we all just get along? Why do we have to beat China? That's just gonna make China mad. Why do we have to beat the Japanese? Why did we always do that before? Wasn't that when we were bad country, always beating everybody? Why do there have to be winners and losers? Why do we have to do that?"
That's the reaction a lot of people are gonna have because that's the way they've been raised. "It's unfair to beat anybody. It's unfair. Competition is not necessary. Conflict resolution, that's what we need. We need to compromise, get along, be bipartisan." It's gonna scare a lot of people. Beating the Chinese, beating the Japanese. These are people that are ignorant, who have no idea that what Trump says here is actually true. Make no mistake.
Look, the Chinese just hacked every government employee!
Why do you think they did that?
You don't think the ChiComs consider us an enemy? They sure as heck do. You don't think Putin considers us as an enemy? He sure as heck does. We're an enemy simply because we're the lone superpower anymore. It's how you deal with that, that distinguishes you. Trump's point is (paraphrased), "We don't have anybody doing it. We don't have any smart people at all in positions of authority and power making decisions on anything that matter," which he made clear in his speech today.
Here's the next bite...
TRUMP: All of my life, I've heard that a truly successful person -- a really, really successful person -- and even modestly successful, cannot run for public office. Just can't happen. And yet that's the kind of mind-set that you need to make this country great again. So, ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again.
RUSH: Now, one thing. He does not make excuses for who he is, he doesn't apologize for his wealth, and he claims that people like him are the kind of people that need to be in political leadership positions but they don't dare do it because of all the different possibilities that could happen to 'em. He says instead of criticizing people like him, instead of targeting people like him, we need people like him in positions of authority and power making decisions 'cause we need the smart people -- the smartest people we've got -- running this country. We don't have that now.
Here's the next bite....
TRUMP: I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. I tell you that.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
TRUMP: I don't need anybody's money. I'm using my own money. I'm not using the lobbyists. I'm not using donors. I don't care. I'm really rich. I'll show you that in a second. And, by the way, I'm not even saying that in a braggadocios way. That's the kind of mind-set, that's the kind of thinking you need for this country.
WOMAN: Absolutely!
TRUMP: So 'cause we gotta make the country rich, it sounds crass. Somebody said, "Oh, that's crass."
WOMAN: Uh-uh!
TRUMP: It's not crass.
RUSH: It's not crass. Now, can you hear Mitt Romney saying, "I'm rich. I'm really rich. I'll acknowledge it. They're all calling me rich. I'm really rich -- I'll show you here in a minute -- and I'm proud of it." No. Romney will go buy a station wagon, put the dog on the roof, and go on vacation. Trump's out there flying his Boeing 757 with his name on it in 14-karat gold on the fuselage. He's out bragging about everything he's done because he's proud of it.
He's proud of his success, he's proud of his achievements, and he wants people to know. He says he's not bragging 'cause he doesn't have to brag. He's not ashamed of any of it and he doesn't want to put on any airs and act like it was an accident or act like he doesn't deserve it, because he does deserve it. He told a story. He grew up in Queens and Brooklyn; his dad was a great negotiator and he learned a lot from his dad. But his dad said, "Donald, don't ever take our business into Manhattan.
"It's a cesspool over there. It's too big. We're right where we need to be." Trump said he told him, "'But, Dad, I gotta go to Manhattan. I gotta go to Manhattan! That's where the action is, Dad.' And I went to Manhattan, and look what I own. I own the Bank of American, I own Trump Tower, and am rebuilding the greatest hotel in Washington, DC. I'm doing all of this. I'm very proud of this! I make no excuses for any of it. I am really rich. I'll show you in a minute. And I'm not bragging."
Here are a couple of past transcripts, from Rush, regarding Trump.
He addresses the donations to Dems, in one. Here’s a snippet of what The Donald had to say about that, with Rush’s coaxing....
...RUSH: And a couple people wanted to know — they had learned you had given some money to Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral campaign in Chicago — they asked me how could a guy that wants the Republican nomination do that? I said, “He’s got business in Chicago.”
TRUMP: Right.
RUSH: Chicago is Chicago. And that didn’t sit well with them. So I thought, “I’m gonna have Mr. Trump on and ask him myself.” So I’m asking you so that they can hear your answer.
TRUMP: Good, Rush, I like actually giving the answer. Number one, I do business all over the country, and as an example, I’m from New York, which is an almost exclusively Democratic state. So over the years, Republicans in many cases don’t even run a candidate, sadly, and I say very sadly. Now, Ari Emanuel, who if you’ve looked they did Entourage on Ari Emanuel, that’s my agent. Rahm is his brother. Ari’s a great friend of mine —
(Not that this is an excuse for DT...just posting the reasons/excuses he gave.)
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/03/01/by_popular_demand_donald_trump
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/01/21/donald_trump_blasts_the_chicoms
The Clintons learned a lesson in 2008: never take a chance. Always rig the game.
gutsy, how, he has nothing to lose from a vanity campaign
Well I’m looking at the year dates you’re giving.....so that’s not reason enough for me to not think Trump is going to stop speaking against the demorats during this run....
HE’s likely not going to win...”snowball chance etc”....but he’s good to have out there swinging and he will as he’s already shown.
I will support him “swinging” but I remain in Cruz’s court and see no reason I won’t remain there til the end.
So ....let him do his thing....he’ll be out when it it’s time to be out.
I have never sat out an election and always criticize those who do but to everything there is always a first time.
No even a good explanation
were there no Republicans in Florida when he donated to Crist
Trump is all about Trump !
When offerred the opportunity to run against NYS Gov. Andy Cuomo , he declined (inferring that the race and title of NYS Governor was beneath him).
His buddy , Chris Christy as leader of the (alledgedly)Republican coffers said :"We don't fund losing candidates", in reference to Rob Astorino, Republican Governor candidate.
Cuomo won only 55% of the vote, his challenger Rob Astorino pulled in 45% of the vote , with no money ! from the Republican establishment.
Imagine what would have happened if he, Astorino, had gotten any Republican financial support.
Trump is bigger than life . If you don't beleive him ,..ask him !
FUBAR , him and the white horse he came in on !!
Just another ego-maniacal Narcissist, and we have all had enough of ego-manicial narcissists !
Only with stupid people, Rush. Only with Stupid people who don’t know anything about his history.
It's no excuse at all. Trump is a rich and powerful man. There can be no acceptable excuse for his supporting financially the worst of the worst when it comes to democRAT politicians.
Another thing noobie: See posts #11 and 18 by Freepers South40 and VanDeKoik
Trump couldn't even move his own bowels without medication , he is so choked up on himself !!
He should run as a democrap.
Only if Trump goes “third party”.
But as far as staking out the issues and posting the standards for achievement of clearly stated goals, The Donald has performed yeoman duty by making many of the issues starkly clear and simple.
Agree or disagree, The Donald has certainly changed the dialogue. And it looks like a dialogue that the Left cannot successfully counter.
He does not appeal to me at all.
If Ted Cruz is not on the ballot for President, I shall write in his name.
Never did it before, but I shall learn how.
Giving money to Christ is an unpardonable sin. However business types sometimes donate for reasons other than wanting to see a person’s politics enforced. Some donate to both sides of a political race even.
I support him swinging, but there are n00bs here who are attacking long time FReepers for calling out this liberal kook for what he is. They're even foolish enough to make Nazi references. lol!
I see Trump as no different that Perry. Good for a laugh, but not to be taken seriously.
1) “I probably identify more as Democrat.” —Interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, March 2004
So did a man named Ronald Reagan.
2) “I’ve been around for a long time. And it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.” —Interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, March 2004
It was good in the Clinton years, because of the aftermath of the Reagan years.
3) “Nancy — you’re the best. Congrats. Donald.” —Handwritten note to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, January 2007
What was he going to say; “Nancy, screw you?”
4) “Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States.” —Interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, March 2007
By that time, W had let himself be wagged around so much by the Dems, he had lost his 2001-2005 greatness.
5) “I’m totally pro-choice.” —Interview with Fox News Sunday, October 1999
Like it or not, abortion is the major deciding issue in an election for less than 1% of the population.
6) “I want to see the abortion issue removed from politics. I believe it is a personal decision that should be left to the women and their doctors.” —Remarks to reporters, December 1999
Like it or not, abortion is the major deciding issue in an election for less than 1% of the population.
9) “By imposing a one-time 14.25 percent net-worth tax on the richest individuals and trusts, we can put America on sound financial footing for the next century.” —Writing in his book, The America We Deserve, January 2000
Since he was willing to pay it himself, where is the complaint? Granted, we all believe huge cuts in federal spending have to be made, but in this case, he was willing to take on the compressibility himself. That takes balls.
10) “I think he [Obama] has a chance to go down as a great president.” —Interview with NY1, November 2008
Obama did have such a chance. Had he abandoned is far-left socialist leanings, governed as a right of center - centrist, and not gone further left and pro-Islamic, he would have been seen as a great unifier, as opposed to the worst president in Amrican history.
In the 2012 election cycle, 23 of 23 trump contributions went to the GOP candidate or PAC. In the 2014 election cycle, 44 of 44 Trump contributions went to the GOP candidate or PAC. (http://www.opensecrets.org)
How gullible are you? He says he’s going to build a wall around Mexico and make Mexicans. He’s trying to do an over the top parody of a cobservative. If he were president he’d be first in line to legal and guest worker everyone with his Chamber of Commerce buddies. If anything, he’ll be to the left of Job on this.
As many know, was here as lurker since late 90s, went to DC chapter events, etc, but could not publicly post until the post-security clearance time frame ran out.
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