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."
Didn’t Trump vote for Obama in ‘08?
Your profile is nothing more than text on a screen written by presumably yourself.
You claimed to be involved in the DC chapter in the past and many here know who you are.
One more time, who?
Your claim of a TS clearance having to expire so you can post on an anonymous site reeks of pure BS.
You signed on in April this year. Take a seat in the back of the hall and try to LEARN... something about true FReepers- not what you’ve read in Salon’s gay boy nekulturnys screeds.
More nazi comments and the viking kitties will take care of you. Nazis were NOT conservatives— get that through your paid head. Unless you prove otherwise with conservative bona fides and positions— you are toast. Admin— take over!
So did a man named Ronald Reagan.
President Reagan had been a Democrat decades earlier, or prior to 1962. And once a Republican he never voiced continued allegiance to the Democrat Party. Trump said “I probably identify more as Democrat.” in 2004, just 11 year ago. You see the difference, don't you?
It was good in the Clinton years, because of the aftermath of the Reagan years.
If Trump is too stupid to know that the economy benefited because of President Reagan and not the rapist he's too stupid to be president.
What was he going to say; “Nancy, screw you?”
He sent her a hand written note saying that. Why did he have to say anything? Why praise a woman known as one of the worst of the worst when it comes to liberal politics when he did so needlessly and without merit?
By that time, W had let himself be wagged around so much by the Dems, he had lost his 2001-2005 greatness.
And liberals all over America, Trump included, were eager to shout it from the rooftops. Note: This was early 2007; at approximately the same time Trump and other liberals were trashing Bush he was also praising Pelosi. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Like it or not, abortion is the major deciding issue in an election for less than 1% of the population.
That is, without a doubt the most moronic thing you have said. Assuming what you said is true, and it is not as abortion is a Threshold Issue for One in Six American Voters ALL "conservative" candidates should oppose abortion. Trump didn't and only now says he does because he wants the conservative vote. No thanks, flip floppers need not apply.
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.
Taxing the so-called "rich" is a very popular position among liberals, which is why Trump supports it. It is my suspicion that is why you're okay with it also.
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 American history.
Why would he abandon the political philosophy that got him to the White House? That makes absolutely no sense? The man was a known socialist whose political career was launched in Bill Ayres' living room. Do you believe this crap you write? If so, you sure learned little in the time you "claim" to have been lurking.
Have a nice day.
Read crystal’s home page, it claims to be a long time lurker who had to wait until its TS (transsexual?) clearance expired before it could post on an anonymous site....and is “known” by many here but won’t name one.
With Trump in the mix, this will at least be an amusing election cycle.
I’m not worried about Trump going up agains’t Hillary. He will annihilate her in the general. I’m worried about any of the other likely GOP candidates beating her in the general election.
Exactly, that’s the plan, old Donald didn’t hang out with the Clinton’s for nothing.
Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton without the skirt, or pants suit.
Thoses who take his bait are biting into a crap sandwich.
There are those here on Free Republic who support liberal issues like abortion, gay marriage, feminism, but won’t tell you here or admit it, those kinds are the real danger here.
Moreover, his defenses of Trump mostly all come from a liberal perspective (see post#57).
I know a fraud when I smell one.
he gave 100K to the Clinton Foundation, voted for Obama in ‘08, donated mostly to far-left Democrats, thinks Oprah would be the best running mate
yea, this guy is a clown
I can't deny Trump's confidence.
Well ASA Vet, there is that.
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.
Please, if you knew anything about the US military and/or US foreign policy, and/or national security, you would know what a TS clearance is.
I’ll give you a hint. It takes a SSBI to get one, George W Bush probably had one, and Bush 41 certainly did much earlier in life, but there is no way Bill Clinton could ever get one. His minions needed one, but he didn’t
You have 3 guesses. So fess up, you don’t know, or you’re just trying to disrupt things here with false sexual innuendos.
BOL!
I signed so many things when I left, I must have forgotten about that piece of paper.
THE QUESTION
.....HOW CAN WE TRUST TRUMP
WHAT?
HOW the hell can we trust a GOP that votes for SON OF NAFTA ON STERIODS!!!!
A GOP that can’t build a stinkin fence?
at least TRUMP is the ONLY candidate PATRIOTIC ENOUGH TO TAKE ON CHINA!!!
Here is my problem with what is happening even now on FR. Everyone is spending all their time slamming every potential Republican candidate, and promising to continue to do so, even through the 2016 general election.
They are forgetting the horrible lesson we still suffer from, from the 2012 election.
The Dem minorities did not elect Barack Obama. Had the socially conservative Americans voted instead of staying home because Romney wasn’t conservative “enough,” Obama would have been sent packing.
Perhaps Romney wasn’t conservative enough to please many of us entirely, but with Romney we would have not had any mass illegal immigration from Mexico.
We would not be about to let Iran develop an fission (or even a fission/fusion) weapon.
Israel would still be a friend.
Rifle ammunition would not be banned, nor would there have been an attempt to do so.
Former US military rifles, such as the M1 Carbine could be re-imported into the US.
US companies would not be sued by the government because their religious beliefs prevented them from paying for abortion-inducing pills.
Obamacare would have been repealed by a Republican President, Senate and House, or absent a repeal, radically de-fnded.
Racial rioters would not have been encouraged.
Our AG would not be a radical woman.
Pacific trade would not be an issue.
Our military would not be headed for its lowest strengths since before WWII.
The 5 Taliban leaders would still be in Gitmo, as would be many others terrorists.
Beau Bergdhal would be dead, in Leavenworth or still living with the savages.
and so many other Obama programs would never have seen the light of day. If anyone has any questions, wait until he forgives all Black college loans, pays Black reparations, and frees “poor” Black drug dealers, and orders federal “monitors” to prevent voter ID in 2016.
Every program Barack Obama has proposed since Jan 20, 2013, and from now on, is thanks in part to conservatives who thought Romney wasn’t conservative “enough”, and sat home on election day.
How many were motivated to do so by leftist radicals posing as conservatives on websites such as FR, who knows?
The bottom line is a trifecta of three truths.
1: The candidate elected President in 2016 will come from either the Dems or the Republicans. A third party candidate would only split the vote, and ensure the Dem gets elected, as Ross Perot did.
2: We can work hard now to get a real conservative nominated but anyone who would not vote for the MORE conservative of the two candidates, no matter who he is, issimply helping a radical leftist get elected .... (and maybe even really trying to do so)
3: Dems are smart. They all work hard to get their individual candidate nominated. If their candidate is not nominated, they unite behind the liberal who is. We don’t.
It’s very simple. The reality is we all work hard for our favorite candidates now to try to get them nominated, and then unite behind the victor no matter who he is.... or we help elect the radical Dem.
In 2012 we didn’t, to the intense pleasure of the Obamanistas and some radicals posing as conservatives. In case you wonder how pervasive this is, it’s no secret Russia and the Dems both have huge disruptor operations working against us and other conservative websites.
We can help decide who wins the 2016 nomination, but if we sit home because the nominated candidate isn’t conservative “enough,” we’re helping put Hillary in the White House.
They fooled us in 2012. Will they get away with it again?
7 years was my ticket to “freedom of screech.”
Politely,
You might want to review #98.
Best regards.
I believe it when I see it. Right now all he does is talk big and make lots of promises
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