{"id":215156,"date":"2016-12-13T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/12\/13\/bill_gates_compares_trump_to_jfk_\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:28:57","slug":"bill_gates_compares_trump_to_jfk_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/13\/bill_gates_compares_trump_to_jfk_\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Compares Trump to JFK!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: My little tech blogger buddies, who really literally hate me, are just gonna be beside themselves today.  They\u2019re not going to know how to process this.  They are going to be confused and angry and questioning the purpose of life, all because Bill Gates went on CNBC\u2019s Squawk Box this morning and was asked by the hostette there, Becky Quick, “Donald Trump mentioned he had a phone call with you.  How\u2019d that conversation go, Mr. Gates?”<\/p>\n

GATES:  I had an opportunity to talk to him about innovation.  You know, a lot of his message, in the same way that President Kennedy talked about the space mission and got the country behind that, I think that whether it\u2019s education or stopping epidemics and in this energy space there can be a very upbeat message that his administration is gonna organize things, get rid of regulatory barriers and have American leadership through innovation.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Bill Gates just compared the Trumpster to John F. Kennedy in a favorable way. And Bill Gates is joining a lot of these other corporate people who, during the campaign, were savaging Trump and talking about their devotee status for Hillary Clinton. And so many of them now after Trump has been elected are not just sidling up to Trump, but they are literally singing his praises after having met him. <\/line><\/p>\n

I mean, this is incredible. “In the same way President Kennedy talked about the space mission and got the country behind that, I think whether it\u2019s education or stopping epidemics or this energy space.”  I don\u2019t think he\u2019s talking about global warming here.  I think he\u2019s talking about energy creation, maybe innovation in energy creation.  He said, “There can be a very upbeat message that Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s gonna organize things, get rid of regulatory barriers, and have American leadership through innovation.” <\/p>\n

Gates further said that he spoke with Trump on the phone, discussed the power of innovation.  Gates said, “Of course my whole career\u2019s been along those lines,” and Trump was interested in listening to that, and I\u2019m sure there will be further conversations.  Gates also said of Trump, “A lot of Trump\u2019s message has been about where he sees things not as good as he would like.”  Well, well, well, well. <\/p>\n

But there is another possibility. It\u2019s remote, very, very, \u2019cause I think Gates is being honest here, but go to audio sound bite 14.  Maureen Dowd, the famous MoDo, was on a late-night so-called comedy show on NBC last night, and the host, a guy named Seth Meyers, asked MoDo this question.  “You make this argument that Donald Trump\u2019s very susceptible to compliments and he\u2019s also very susceptible in your opinion to the last person he\u2019s talked to.  And so that\u2019s affecting the way people would deal with him.”<\/p>\n

DOWD:  Right.  That\u2019s why his staff jockeys to get the last appointment of the day because the last person who talks to him has a lot of sway.  And, you know, he over-flatters people, and he likes to be over-flattered because basically he doesn\u2019t — his ideology is his ego, so, you know, everybody in Washington, from President Obama to Mitch McConnell, is trying to flatter him.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  What?<\/p>\n

DOWD:  He\u2019s almost like a host body, and they think they can change his mind or pour their agenda in with some flattery, and that worked with Putin.<\/p>\n