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<\/p>\nRUSH: Trump takes a call from the female president of Taiwan, and everybody in the diplomatic corps and everybody in the Washington establishment, anti-Trump Trumpists or anti-Never Trumpers and leftists and the media have a collective cow. “Oh, my God, he\u2019s so stupid. You don\u2019t do this. They\u2019re not official. He just slammed China. He just insulted China. He doesn\u2019t even know it, the guy is so stupid, his ego is so bad, anybody could call him and congratulate him and he\u2019ll take the call. He didn\u2019t know that he\u2019s not supposed to talk to her.” <\/p>\n
And they began their narrative that Trump\u2019s demonstrating his naivete, his ignorance, his lack of qualifications, and demonstrating just how dangerous he is going to be. And then somebody said, “Wait a minute. What if he did this on purpose?” And they all paused with a note of fear. “Wait a minute. On purpose? You mean Trump did this on purpose? You mean Trump did this as a strategy?” Yeah. And then they said, “Well, Trump\u2019s not that smart. No. It has to be one of his advisers, it\u2019s probably Bannon. Trump\u2019s not smart enough to do this. Trump couldn\u2019t figure this out. Trump doesn\u2019t know enough to do this.” <\/p>\n
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And then as time trickled by it became apparent that yes, Trump did it, Trump did it on purpose, it was strategic, and it had a reason. It had a diplomatic reason and the diplomatic reason was exactly what he said during the campaign. We\u2019re being led by a bunch of dumb people right now doing a bunch of dumb things, and I\u2019m gonna stop it. If I\u2019m elected we\u2019re gonna start being smart. And so he takes a call from somebody he is not supposed to take call from. Why isn\u2019t he supposed to take the call? Well, they say you\u2019re just not supposed to take the call. Who is “they”? The people have been screwing things up for the last 40 years. <\/p>\n
So now the media is once again on defense, Trump on offense, media on defense, trying to figure this out, trying to come to the conclusion Trump may have been doing this on purpose. They\u2019re asking, “Why would Trump want to insult the Chinese, for crying out loud? Does he not know how dangerous this?” To which the retort is, “Were you not listening during the campaign?” <\/p>\n
Did you not hear every Trump rally, every Trump rally and probably over half of Trump TV experiences he criticized the ChiComs. He called \u2019em out by name. He accused them of manipulating their currency to our detriment. He accused them of dumping all kinds of inferior products on the U.S. market. He caused them of this and that and the other thing and he said it was gonna stop. <\/p>\n
It makes perfect sense that he would take a call from the leader of Taiwan if for no other reason to get the attention of the ChiComs. It makes perfect sense if you ever took the time to listen to Trump. But even those who did listen to Trump, there\u2019s another thing he does that has them befuddled, and that is he apparently means what he says, and they are not accustomed to that. And by “they,” I\u2019m talking about the establishment. Both parties, diplomatic corps, the elites, they speak in a different language. <\/p>\n
They never telegraph what they\u2019re really thinking, what they\u2019re really going to do. They speak in code. They speak in diplomacy. As such, you never tell anybody what you\u2019re gonna do, you never tell anybody what you really think, you gotta leave your options open. Trump doesn\u2019t do anything but tell people what he thinks, and he\u2019s now acting on what he said he was gonna do, and it\u2019s just foreign to most people in Washington.<\/p>\n
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“Donald Trump Threatens Payback for U.S. Companies That Move Abroad — Donald Trump is threatening to impose heavy taxes on U.S. companies that move jobs overseas and still try to sell their products to Americans.” He said he was gonna do this during the campaign. Nobody ought to be surprised. <\/p>\n
You know, I think a lot of people watching this — I\u2019m not talking about you Trump supporters. I\u2019m talking about the critics of Trump, opponents of Trump, I think they didn\u2019t attach any seriousness to him during the campaign. They just thought he was doing things the way they do. Just say what you have to say to set yourself apart, to be different, get people\u2019s attention, lie to them if you have to. But he doesn\u2019t mean this stuff. <\/p>\n
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And now here he is president-elect, and he\u2019s beginning to implement everything he said he was gonna do, and they\u2019re just stunned. “This is crony capitalist. He can\u2019t do this.” You know, how did the federal government collect money? Not the right question. How did the U.S. raise money before the 13th Amendment and the establishment of — not the 13th. It was in 1913. Before the establishment of the income tax, what was the primary funding mechanism for the United States government? Does anybody know? Tariffs. Tariffs on imported goods. Tariffs on domestic goods that were exported. <\/p>\n
Tariffs was the primary funding source, before the income tax. “Are you saying they\u2019re justified?” No. Did I say that? I\u2019m just telling you. Tariffs is how the U.S. funded itself before the income tax came along. Trump is merely beginning to implement everything he said he was gonna do, and people are having a cow about it for a host of reasons. Anyway, we still gotta get to the Taiwan call and the funny Drive-By Media and establishment reaction to it.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I want to start with last Wednesday. Go back to something I pointed out last Wednesday on this program. <\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: They\u2019re honestly sitting there, after having listened to Trump for a year and a half, after having watched Trump — or at least they\u2019ve had the opportunity — assuming he\u2019s got no plan. Well, he most certainly does have a plan, and he\u2019s been very clear about it. He\u2019s been very precise about it. What is it about it that these people don\u2019t see? Why are they not able to listen to what Donald Trump says he\u2019s gonna do and believe he means it? Well, they don\u2019t believe it and they don\u2019t believe anybody in their world would ever speak this way, would ever have think kind of agenda or these kinds of objectives, and so nobody else would either. No reasonable person could possibility behave like Donald Trump does, not in our world. “What if Trump\u2019s got no plan?” He\u2019s got no plan? His plan is what\u2019s behind him running for office. His plan is to make the country great again! <\/p>\n
RUSH: He had one of the most detailed and lengthy agendas of any candidate I can recall. And he mentioned his agenda practically every rally. It\u2019s not a mystery what Donald Trump\u2019s plan is. And, by the way, I was very on the money with this. His plan is what\u2019s behind him seeking the office. And he\u2019s been very clear. And one of the things he\u2019s been clear on is that he thinks the ChiComs are running rings around us, manipulating their currency, getting our trade balance out of whack, messing around with imports and exports. He\u2019s had China on his mind ever since he got into this campaign. <\/p>\n
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When he talks about trade, NAFTA, jobs leaving America, he\u2019s always got the ChiComs in the mix. It shouldn\u2019t be a mystery to anybody that he would take a phone call from the leader of Taiwan. So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Drive-Bys amazed. At first they said, “This is idiotic. This guy doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. This is so bad. This is such a faux pas. This is a humongous mistake. This is why we didn\u2019t want Trump. This is embarrassing. We can\u2019t possibly have a dummkopf like this.” And then one of the Drive-Bys posited, “Hey, wait a minute, what if he does have a plan and what if this is it?” And now they\u2019re panicked like this. <\/p>\n
CHARLIE ROSE: It is reported that they thought long and hard about doing this, so it was intentional. <\/p>\n
MAJOR GARRETT: Some thought this might have been an inadvertent mistake, but we have learned the Trump transition team spend some time arranging this call. <\/p>\n
CHUCK TODD: So this was an intentional sort of challenge. <\/p>\n
NORAH O\u2019DONNELL: Whether it was out of ignorance or some plan to send a message to China. <\/p>\n
BRIAN KILMEADE: Looks like it\u2019s calculated, intentional to send a message. <\/p>\n
DAGEN MCDOWELL: That was intentional. That wasn\u2019t a mistake. <\/p>\n
BOB KERREY: It\u2019s a remarkable change, if it\u2019s intentional. <\/p>\n
DAVID IGNATIUS: I wouldn\u2019t think it was wise unless you had a detailed plan for what to do next and next. <\/p>\n
CHRIS CUOMO: Do you have any reason to believe that what we just saw with Taiwan and now these tweets about China are part of a thought-out plan? <\/p>\n
RUSH: You hear all those people, you got the Drive-By Media people in there, you got the Washington Post David Ignatius, Bobby Kerry, a bunch of people, F. Chuck Todd, Charlie Rose, they can\u2019t believe it. And now the fact that he may be intending to do this? It\u2019s even worse. Now they think he\u2019s provoking these big, bad ChiComs, and who knows, they might nuke. Oh, this is dangerous, oh, my God, we\u2019ve elected Barry Goldwater, oh, no. They\u2019re in panic city. But they\u2019re really not. Well, they are, but not for the reason I — They are starting to confront, beginning to confront the reality that the guy\u2019s serious, that he\u2019s smart, and that he meant it, and that he\u2019s the opposite of everything they believe in. <\/p>\n
And I think they\u2019re now starting to get very, very concerned. And these tweets are his way of staying on offense. These tweets are his way of keeping them on defense. These tweets are his way of relegating them to irrelevancy. He\u2019s telling them he doesn\u2019t need them to get his message out to the American people. And he said, “Hey, look, if you people would report honorably and honestly about me I wouldn\u2019t have to do all these tweets.” And Mike Pence said (paraphrasing), “Wait a minute, you telling me we can\u2019t wait a call from a Democrat leader in Taiwan but Obama can get in bed with Castro?” <\/p>\n
Is that what you\u2019re telling us, that Obama can call every fleabag communist tinhorn dictator in the world and that\u2019s great, and we take a call from a Democrat ally in Taiwan and the world\u2019s coming to an end? And he\u2019s right. Matthew Dowd, Alex Castellanos debating whether Trump\u2019s call was intentional on ABC yesterday. <\/p>\n
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DOWD: I don\u2019t think it was intentional for Donald Trump to sort of reset the China policy of the United States of America through one phone call. I think he got a phone call, it fed his ego if a president of Taiwan calls him up. The problem is is when you don\u2019t have a real fundamental strategy in place. What is your Far Eastern policy? What\u2019s it gonna do to your relationship with North Korea that you need the Chinese for? What\u2019s it gonna do on climate change that you need the Chinese for? And what\u2019s it gonna do on Iran that you need the Chinese for. Donald Trump didn\u2019t think all those things through. <\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. That\u2019s Matthew Dowd, a former Republican Bush analyst that has now gone over to the dark side. These questions are amazing. (imitating Dowd) “I don\u2019t think it was intentional. I think Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. He got one phone call, it\u2019s his ego on parade. The problem is there\u2019s no fundamental strategy in place, what\u2019s your Far Eastern policy?” The Norks? Are you kidding me? The ChiComs aren\u2019t doing a thing to rein in the Norks. We\u2019re demanding that the ChiComs make sure the Norks don\u2019t nuke everybody, and the ChiComs are sitting there laughing at us. They\u2019re not gonna be anymore. <\/p>\n
“What\u2019s it gonna do on climate change?” The Chinese have told climate change to go (raspberry). The Chinese and climate change, need the Chinese on climate change? From everything we know, Trump doesn\u2019t believe in your version of climate change. We now got that under advisement with Algore in and out of there. We\u2019re being very patient on that. Hang in there, be tough. Iran? The Chinese helped Obama in coming up with a horrible Iran nuke deal! Which Trump has also honestly said is a bad deal. If the Chinese facilitated all of this, it\u2019s no wonder Trump wants to reverse it. Here\u2019s Alex Castellanos in reply. <\/p>\n
CASTELLANOS: We\u2019re seeing disruption, and it\u2019s freaking out the news media and the old establishment in Washington. Guess what? That\u2019s why Donald Trump was elected, to do exactly that. I feel like we\u2019re watching Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show. <\/p>\n
DOWD: Do you think the Taiwan call was deliberate? <\/p>\n
CASTELLANOS: I think, actually, it was. Apparently his aides were over there at some point. And, you know, it was almost three months ago to the day that China snubbed the president of the United States — <\/p>\n
RUSH: Stop the tape. That\u2019s enough. Castellanos is a former Republican analyst, and he believed that the call was done on purpose, which it was. There\u2019s no doubt about it. But listen to one more here. Charlie Rose as on CBS today speaking with author Ian Bremmer. He\u2019s also the president of the Eurasia Group — E-u-r-a-s-i-A. Europe-Asia. Eurasia Group. And Charlie Rose said, “Ian, it\u2019s been reported that they thought long and hard, the Trump people, about doing this. So was it intentional? Is that your reading of this?” <\/p>\n
BREMMER: My reading is that there are few people that are in the transition team around Trump that have been talking to the Taiwanese for some time and love the idea of reaching out. I don\u2019t believe that Trump had the sense personally that by having a phone call as president-elect with the Taiwanese president, that he was setting policy. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: So if it was intentional, it came from advisers. Trump has no idea. This is like Reagan. Reagan didn\u2019t know what was going on. He was sleeping. He was dozing. Jim Baker was really running the show, and that\u2019s why we could rely on it. Now they\u2019re trying to say, “Well, yeah, Trump had no idea what he\u2019s doing here. I don\u2019t believe Trump had the sense that by having the call he was setting policy. Trump\u2019s so stupid, I don\u2019t think Trump knew.” These guys… You watch. It\u2019s amazing. These guys are gonna have their heads bitten off. They\u2019re gonna be fully exposed as the arrogant snobs that they are, and it isn\u2019t gonna be much longer.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m gonna tell you what\u2019s beginning to dawn on these people, the establishment types, the losers, the anti-Trumpers. What\u2019s beginning to dawn on them is that he\u2019s going to be successful, and that\u2019s got them paranoid. And that they will not be able to talk us, the general public, out of believing it and accepting it. They have been able to destroy successful Republican presidents. It took \u2019em five years to destroy Bush, but they were able to do it — well, four. Trump is a different guy. <\/p>\n
Trump fights back from the moment it happens, and he doesn\u2019t allow whatever they say to settle in and start flowering. He destroys it the minute he hears it, or tries to. And they\u2019re not accustomed to this. They do not have an answer to Trump\u2019s tweets. They only know one way of doing things, and they are not adaptable, folks. This is the wonderful thing about the Drive-Bys. They\u2019re so stuck in the way it\u2019s always been done and in routine and the way they\u2019ve been taught — and the narrative here, the narrative there — that they don\u2019t know how to adapt to this. <\/p>\n
So they\u2019re just gonna keep trying everything that they\u2019ve always tried in the past that\u2019s worked. And it\u2019s dawning on \u2019em it might not with Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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