Posted on 07/21/2017 12:57:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Nathan in Lynchburg, Virginia. Great to have you first today on Open Line Friday. How are you?
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing today?
RUSH: Fine and dandy, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, I’m gonna get straight to the point. I have a theory about why Trump went to the New York Times. He’s a master manipulator of the media, as we know. He’s had plenty of experience living in New York and dealing with them as a businessman. This is why Trump people love Donald Trump. I’ve heard a lot of Trump supporters getting nervous, getting scared, shaking in their boots.
Let me tell you the reason why he did it. A good leader will confront his opponent head on. Not only that, he’ll confront them and he’ll smile and he’ll laugh and he’ll act like everything is fine. He did this on purpose for two points: One, to let the media know that he’s still in control of them. Number two, to let the Republicans know that if you are trying to run from the media ’cause you’re afraid of what they might report about you and you won’t do your job and if you recuse yourself from something that he hired you to do, then he’s gonna bring that up to the media. You’re not going to escape. This is why Trump supporters voted for him, ’cause he’s a strong leader, and he doesn’t care.
RUSH: Wait a minute. I’m confused because you said Trump supporters love this but then you said a lot of them are nervous and kind of confused at why he would talk to the New York Times.
CALLER: The diehard Trump supporters absolutely love Trump for doing this.
RUSH: Okay. Okay.
CALLER: The ones who are iffy jiffy about him who aren’t really, you know, Rush listeners and don’t really know the conservative values, the ones that are just sort of floating around out there — and I recently heard there was a poll out that some of the Trump supporters were losing faith. That’s garbage. That’s a lie.
RUSH: That’s a survey they could write every year about every presidential candidate that wins. It was one of out of every eight voters regrets their vote. They could do that every president. Doesn’t matter. And the sample on that was kind of skewed. It was a bogus story. They want to create that thought process in people’s minds.
CALLER: Trump did this on purpose, and we love him all the more for it. We didn’t —
RUSH: I know he did it on purpose. I don’t think they captured him and took him to the dungeons there at the —
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: — New York Times building.
CALLER: I do believe that he’s gonna get rid of Jeff Sessions within the next 30 days or so. I think it’s gonna be the start of his onslaught of “you’re fired” sort of thing again. He needs to do more of it again anyways, and Trump supporters will support hum throughout all of these firings. He needs to drain the swamp and I think he’s gonna start doing it again.
RUSH: What do you think of the resignation of Sean Spicer?
CALLER: I think that’s a good thing in a way. RUSH: Why?
CALLER: In many ways I don’t think it’s a good thing.
RUSH: Why is it a good thing, do you think?
CALLER: Because Trump is ever evolving, and so is the agenda with this whole war that’s going on between the left and the right. And Spicer was just getting old. He was just getting old. I didn’t have good ideas anymore and some of his ideas just didn’t come to fruition —
RUSH: He’s not supposed to have ideas. He’s supposed to be able to portray the president’s ideas and explain them to the starving and carnivorous press corps.
CALLER: Right. I understand that. But he’s just not being the best representative right now for Trump. I think Trump should get rid of them every three months, get a new one.
RUSH: Okay. Why do you think Spicer was not the best representative for Trump right now? I’m only asking because you’re obviously a Trumpist and you’re hard-core so I’m assuming you have opinions about that. You don’t have to answer these if you don’t have answers, but I thought I’d try and give you a shot.
CALLER: I’ll be honest with you, Rush, I haven’t really thought about the Spicer incident yet. I heard about this, and I was just like, huh, that’s interesting. I haven’t really delved into it too much, so maybe I’ll just not have an opinion about that right now.
RUSH: Okay. I understand that.
CALLER: Why don’t you tell me why. There you go.
RUSH: I was just gonna say, as host, I can’t use that excuse. I have to come up with something, as host. “Ooh, I didn’t know about it. I’ll think about it.” I sometimes use the excuse if something happens with 30 minutes left in the show. I’ll tell you what I think. Off the top of my head, instinctive, first reaction, Scaramucci is not an insider. Scaramucci does not come from the GOP. Spicer did. This is not accusatory. I’m simply being descriptive. Spicer came from the inside, GOP spokesman PR, GOP, RNC, what have you.
Scaramucci, he’s a Trumper. He’s from outside. He’s a battler. He’s a fighter. I think Trump has tried to work with the Republican Party by meeting them halfway within their universe and is discovering that it isn’t working. So I think he’s gonna go get friends of his from the outside as often and as many places as he can. That’s my instinctive, first reaction here.
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RUSH: I had the polling data from Rasmussen today that 74% of adults rate life as good or excellent. Seventy-four percent are very happy. It’s the highest level of satisfaction ever recorded by Rasmussen. How many of you hear that and say, “What?” How does that jibe with what you see on the news every day? I just got a note from somebody who follows all this stuff religiously. He said, “I’m worn out. I don’t know how much longer I can do this. I can’t imagine 3-1/2 years of this kind of media oppression against one person and his administration.
“I can’t imagine. Rush, tell me it has an end. Is it gonna go on like this for 3-1/2 years? If Trump wins reelection, is it gonna go on for 7-1/2 more years?” I would have to say yes, folks. I don’t see any slowing down of this. I don’t see the media wearing out. I don’t see them giving up. I don’t see them ever turning a corner and accepting that Trump won legitimately. I don’t think they will. Even if this Russia thing totally blows up in their face — which it damn well should and could — they’re just gonna find something else.
This is an earthquake. This is… (sigh) Folks, I don’t know. I’m looking for analogies to try to help people understand the media here. This is more than just opposition to Trump, and it’s more than just hatred of Trump, and it’s more than just panic and fear over having lost an election. This attention to Trump and this attempt to… They really want him to quit. The whole purpose of this is to frustrate Trump to the point of quitting, or isolating him. They will not be happy at simply paralyzing him. They want him out of the White House.
They’re not going to stop until they get it done — and if it doesn’t get done in eight years, they are going to continue to try this. They’re not gonna stop this. It’s… (sigh) I’m gonna have to think up some new analogies. I’ve worn all the ones that I’ve used out. I’ve repeated them so often, I think it probably is, “Yeah, yeah, Rush. We’ve heard it.” You know, you’ve heard the riff on the establishment — who they are, how exclusive it is, how exclusionary it is, how no outsider will ever be permitted in and no outsider will ever be permitted to succeed.
But it’s beyond even that. It’s irrational, which makes it very difficult to explain logically. It’s irrational in our realm. To them — to the Drive-Bys and the Democrats and the left — it’s entirely rational to behavior this way. To them, it’s entirely rational to spend every waking moment getting rid of Trump. Their problem is gonna be that they’re never gonna be able to talk Trump supporters out of supporting him. No matter how hard they try, they’re never gonna be able to do that — and that’s really what it would take, I think, for them to be successful.
They’re never gonna have any success doing that. What they don’t realize is that as this goes on with this intensity of hatred — sheer hatred for Trump — all they’re doing is shoring up Trump’s support from his real base, and it’s a significant number of Americans. It’s not a tiny number. He didn’t win the election because of straggler Republicans deciding to vote at the last minute not really for him, just knew they were against Hillary. I mean, the strength of his base ought to be obvious. I don’t know how many other presidents under this kind of an onslaught would have survived up ’til now.
Trump, while all this is going on, is continuing to implement his agenda where he can, and there are all kinds of success stories out there. The number of illegal immigrants that are coming into the country is down so sharply that the sanctuary city people are in a panic. The illegal immigration crowd is in a panic. The Democrat Party is in a panic over it, because that’s where they get the replenishing of their current underclass. They need a permanent underclass of people dependent on government.
Illegal immigration has been the pipeline for that. It’s way down. There are any number of other successes. Look at fracking, oil production. Food stamp use has fallen to its lowest level in seven years. “Participation in the food stamp program took a dive to the lowest level it has been in seven years, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.” I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but Rex Tillerson is literally cleaning the swamp at the Department of State. He’s closing down entire bureaus in that place.
He’s getting rid of all kinds of people, really paring it down. They’re trying to get the news out — the Clinton and the Obama embeds — and it’s continuing to happen. “President Donald Trump [yesterday] announced a $500 million investment that Corning Inc. is making with pharmaceutical giants Merck and Pfizer to manufacture a new kind of glass for injectable drug vials. At a White House event, Trump said the effort will create nearly 1,000 jobs at facilities in New York and New Jersey and at a soon-to-be-determined site in the southeastern United States.
“The deal could eventually result in a total investment of $4 billion and create around 4,000 jobs, Trump said, joined by the CEOs of Corning, Merck and Pfizer. The commitments were made as part of Trump’s ‘Made in America’ week…” The media is mocking this and laughing at it and making fun of it because they think Trump is focusing on this stuff because he’s got his head in the sand and is ignoring the reality of the trouble that he’s in — which, of course, he’s not.
He’s cleaning house or the beginning to do it. There are all kinds of stories that he’s gonna get really busy cleaning house. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, resigned just moments ago, about a half hour ago. He’s gonna be replaced by Anthony Scaramucci. Let me expand on that a little bit, ’cause I think I was right. You know, I know Spicer, and there’s nothing… Do not interpret anything I say here as criticism.
These are just observations. Trump is an outsider. He brought in Reince Priebus as his chief of staff in, I think, a nod to the establishment and to the establishment of the Republican Party. Priebus had run the RNC the RNC. Price was Priebus’ spokesman at the RNC. So he brings Spicer in. There’s two nods to the Republican Party’s existence in the establishment. I think both appointments were Trump demonstrating a willingness to try and an effort to meld with the establishment in a show of good faith.
But I think Spicer, because of his insider stature/status — his lifetime experience of answering questions a certain way, doing things a certain way, behaving a certain way… That’s not who Trump is, not who Trump wants, and I think Trump’s gonna begin to populate some of these positions that are currently held by so-called Republican insiders with more and more people like Scaramucci, who is an outsider. And, believe me, Scaramucci and Spicer could not have two more different and disparate personalities and types.
Now, the director of the communications office does not necessarily do the briefings. It’s not necessarily Scaramucci doing the daily briefing at the White House. He might do some now and then, but I think this is an overall attitudinal shift. I think Trump is now going to begin bringing in people that he considers to be from the same realm that he is from. And if that means that they’re outsiders and not establishment, then all the better. And I think it’s an indication that he’s continuing to ramp up and battle up.
Sarah will do great as the daily spokes folk
I thought all Trump people are outsiders?
I liked Spicer but honestly he was not the right man for the job. You see someone like Scaramucci talk and you hear Spicer talk and you see the difference..Scaramucci talks with CONFIDENCE..Spicer talked like he couldn’t wait to get the heck out of there..and Sarah Huckabee Sanders is AWESOME she is going to do a great job! President Trump is cleaning house and starting from scratch I like that
Read Art of the Deal....Trump has worked with the NYC Democrats for 30 years and won...
He has all these politicians pegged...he has given Ryan and McConnell enough rope to hang themselves..
They have to get the job done or Trump will roll over the GOP..
It may take a year to get up to cruising speed..
Trump never quits..it may fade from view but he is still working at it..
if you think Trump is dumb watch this..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWhUoTGRWM0
He gets the best people and if they fail there fired..
BTW I would watch far more press conferences if he were in charge. I really liked what I saw today!
She’s great.
Anthony Scaramucci is the newly named White House Communications Director
No, I know who she is, but was unsure as to if she is the PS or he is. Got the titles now. Thanks for the links.
Agreed one hundred percent
Trump is about results
Sessions got played by the Left. The accusation that he did disclose meetings with Russian officials during his confirmation hearing is a lie.
The Left needed to get Sessions out of the way to get a Special Counsel.
Sessions should have fought back instead of folding.
Sessions ought to un-recuse himself and fire Mueller or at least restrain him...OR resign. Unfortunately with the way congress is acting if Sessions resigned it could be a year before we’d have another AG.
Right. I’m now kind of thinking Sessions, McCabe, Rosenstein, Mueller; they all gotta go. They are hopelessly compromised, all of them. It sucks about Sessions, but he needs somebody in there now who is not neutered on the Russia Russia Russia affair.
Hey Rush,
Even though I love Trump, I do not consider myself a “Trumpist” or “Trumper”.
Call me a Deplorable. Call me a Trump Lover or Trump Supporter or Trump Fan.
But please don’t call me a Trumpist or a Trumper because it sounds like something a Never-Trump-er would say.
Does anyone agree? Or am I making a mountain out of a ant hill?
I will gladly vote for him again in 2020, but this time in both the TN primary and the general election. This would be the third time that I have done so. The first time was 1984 when I voted to reelect President Ronald Reagan, he was the first president I voted for in 1980. President George W. Bush 43 was the second president that I voted to reelect him in the 2004 TN primary and then in the general election. I voted for him in the 2000 general election
PP, don’t take it personally. Be happy to be called a TRUMPER or a TRUMPIST. It’s much better than being called a SAXist.
A TRUMPER, here, and damn proud if it!
DJT = MAGA
The snowflakes will be scared of a man named Scaramucci
(Scare you mucco)
MASADA and TRUMP
Around the year 73 CE or so, a large group of Jewish rebels fled from Roman oppression to a mountain plateau called Masada. The Romans laid siege to them by constructing a huge earthen ramp. Before the ramp was completed, rather than surrender to what they understood would be a fate worse than death at the hands of the Romans, the 960 rebels (men, women and children) killed themselves. (Details here for those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada)
In November, 2016, a rebellious American electorate decided it had had enough of passively watching their rights stripped by arrogant, out-of-touch deep state Democrats and equally deep state GOPe types and sent to the White House an equally rebellious OUTSIDER.
If some of you believe that Donald Trump is behaving strangely, think of Masada.
He’s being besieged and vilified by an 85%+ majority leftist media and DC deep state insiders – of BOTH PARTIES – who are threatened by this rebellious “outsider”. The White House is looking more and more like that mountain plateau in the desert and the unprecedented attacks on the man and his family could be analogized as that ramp the Romans constructed to reach and destroy those damned rebels on that plateau.
Allow me to cite an example of how the pressure of the attacks on Trump just manifested.
Jeff Sessions is a decent man. That said, I now question why – without apparently discussing it with the President – he recused himself in connection with the moronic inquisitional Russian probe (anal?) by deep state establishment leftists Democrats and GOPe types cut from a nearby section of the same cloth. (I also have grave reservations about Session’s recent support for unadjudicated and totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL “civil forfeiture”, but that’s a topic for another time.)
Trump’s anger stemmed from Sessions’ recusal as it has put in motion what even Rush has characterized as the most partisan opposition research operation in the history of politics. From Mueller on down, EVERY individual in that cohort is a self-identified Democrat deep stater and Clinton partisan! In fact, at Mueller’s law firm, 99.81% of their donations went to Hillary Clinton! If Donald Trump is appearing just a tad paranoid, it’s because they really ARE out to get him!
Thought Sessions did serve in the Senate, as a gentleman from the old South, he was one of the more gentile and courteous members in that body. While not naive, he probably overlooked the periodic knifings by the left as simply their normal M.O. Trump – a New Yorker – has a very different response to such behavior: He knifes them back! That’s why WE sent him into that den of vipers!
And the news just in that Sean Spicer is out and his replacement is an old Trump friend is simply more evidence that Trump is beginning to grasp the importance of surrounding himself ONLY with folks who fully understand and agree with his agenda and will not waffle and spar with a clearly hostile media gaggle.
While it might be a bit of a stretch, can you see some similarities between Masada and what the new centurions of the deep state are doing to Trump?
My prayer is that, unlike the tragic outcome at Masada, OUR rebel prevails and defeats this new barbaric Roman legion.
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