{"id":219871,"date":"2017-02-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=219871"},"modified":"2017-02-03T16:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:01:46","slug":"humorless-drive-bys-have-conniption-over-joke-about-arnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/02\/humorless-drive-bys-have-conniption-over-joke-about-arnold\/","title":{"rendered":"Humorless Drive-Bys Have Conniption Over Joke About Arnold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: He even prayed for Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the media is having another conniption. Have you heard about this? Schwarzenegger keeps dumping on Trump for his executive order. Schwarzenegger is part of the never-ending chorus that we are a nation of immigrants, and if we do not let immigrants in &#8212; And he\u2019s misrepresenting Trump\u2019s executive orders. So Trump today asked everybody at the prayer breakfast to pray for Schwarzenegger\u2019s ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarzenegger\u2019s the new host of The Apprentice, taking over for Trump. Trump made a big deal of pointing out that Schwarzenegger\u2019s ruining the show, that the ratings are down in the cellar compared to where they were when Trump was the host. He called out Mark Burnett, who was the partner creator of The Apprentice and said that Mark knows the score. And Mark is very protective of the show, and everybody knows that Arnold\u2019s ratings are tanking. Big Hollywood star, thought they\u2019d do better than Trump with a Big Hollywood star, Trump says, and they\u2019re dying. So he asked everybody to pray for Arnold.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Drive-Bys have literally no levity, no possibility of levity, they have no sense of humor whatsoever. I watched two different panel discussions on CNN about this today where they had a bunch of think tankers in there, and history professors, and political science experts from Princeton and Yale and whatever, wringing their hands over Trump; being distracted by irrelevant concerns, questioning Trump\u2019s mental stability, whether or not Trump is literally mentally disabled.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cyxacu5AslI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Because they say he can\u2019t let go of the past. He has to continue to tell people everything he did in the past was bigger and better than everybody else, even going so far as to point out failures, people that replace him who fail and they say he is obsessed, and they can\u2019t laugh. Now, part of it wasn\u2019t funny. I mean, Trump, he said so on this program and he says it every time he\u2019s asked, if you hit him, he\u2019s gonna hit you back. If you attack him, he\u2019s gonna retaliate. If you impugn him or his family or his policies, he\u2019s gonna fire rat-tat-tat right back at you.<\/p>\n<p>This is something people are not accustomed to, particularly on the Republican side. The Republican side, you just take it, turn the other cheek and you act gentlemanly about it and understand, &#8220;Well, this is the price one pays for entering public life, particularly when you\u2019re president of the United States, everybody\u2019s gonna be coming at you. You have to just accept it and not respond to everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not Trump. But you add that to the fact they don\u2019t have any sense of humor. I laughed myself silly when I saw him asking people to pray for Schwarzenegger\u2019s ratings.<\/p>\n<p>And the audience at the prayer breakfast, they weren\u2019t offended. Did you think they were offended? (interruption) No way! (laughing) They looked at that&#8230; (interruption) They might&#8230; (interruption) They might have been stunned? (interruption) But wait a minute, why do you think some of them might have been stunned? (interruption) Because you think it\u2019s a crazy thing to pray for&#8230;? (interruption) Well&#8230; (interruption) Oh, don\u2019t&#8230; Don\u2019t be so&#8230; (interruption) Don\u2019t be so foo&#8230;? (interruption) You&#8230;? (interruption) What do you mean at the prayer breakfast? (interruption) Are you&#8230;? (interruption) Are you&#8230;? (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>Are you telling&#8230;? (interruption) Yes, of course the prayer breakfast is always solemn, but it was a solemn request for a prayer for Schwarzenegger. But if you\u2019re thinking it\u2019s an odd prayer, it\u2019s not an odd prayer. I once dated a woman who prayed for parking spaces when she went to the mall. I said, &#8220;What? You really&#8230;?&#8221; I had to be very careful with this. I said, &#8220;You might think it\u2019s a waste of God\u2019s time.&#8221; &#8220;No, the Lord says ask anything.&#8221; So she did! She asked for parking. Didn\u2019t always get them, but sometimes they opened up. I\u2019m not making it up.<\/p>\n<p>So a prayer for Schwarzenegger\u2019s ratings (laughing), I guarantee you, would not be out of the mainstream. (laughing) Ahem. The real question is: Did Trump really mean it? Does he want Schwarzenegger\u2019s ratings to get better or not? That&#8230; (laughing) That would be the question.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, because Trump brings all this up in his own fashion at the prayer breakfast today. We\u2019re gonna start here with audio sound bite number 11. And let\u2019s just take these in order because they are self-contained and some of them relate to things I\u2019ve mentioned, some haven\u2019t, so let\u2019s just get started and deal with them as.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-219956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TrumpPrayer.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TrumpPrayer.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TrumpPrayer-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>THE PRESIDENT: Today we continue a tradition begun by President Eisenhower some 64 years ago. This gathering is a testament it the power of faith and is one of the great customs of our nation. And I hope to be here seven more times with you. (applause)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ho! I think Trump just announced he\u2019s running for reelection in 2020. I guess Trump made news at the prayer breakfast. And here he says that people are always telling him that they\u2019re praying for him.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: But most importantly today I want to thank the American people. Your faith and prayers have sustained me and inspired me through some very, very tough times. All around America I have met amazing people whose words of worship and encouragement have been a constant source of strength. What I hear most often as I travel the country are five words that never, ever fail to touch my heart: That\u2019s, &#8220;I am praying for you.&#8221; I hear it so often. &#8220;I am praying for you, Mr. President.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They loved it. They loved it. And then they loved this.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: It was the great Thomas Jefferson who said, &#8220;The God who gave us life, gave us liberty.&#8221; Jefferson asked, &#8220;Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Among those freedoms is the right to worship according to our own beliefs.&#8221; That is why I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution. I will do that. Remember. (applause).<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, you know how this used to happen? Take your pick, you know, any Republican president would go up there and would never say anything like, &#8220;That is why I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak.&#8221; That\u2019s not how it would be said.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, it would be said, &#8220;And I want to assure you, and I want you to know, that I\u2019m gonna be working with the elected representatives of our party, and I\u2019m gonna be trying to cross the aisle. I\u2019m gonna be reaching out so that we can come up with a unified purpose to do everything we can do to make sure that religious people have the liberty to speak their beliefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how it would happen. And nothing would happen because there would be nothing there when you cross the aisle except a bunch of flat red stop signs and a bunch of people disagreeing with him. My point is there would be commitment, nothing along the lines of, &#8220;I will get rid of and totally destroy the pinko Johnson. I will not even allow a word of it to survive,&#8221; none of that. &#8220;We\u2019ll be working with our elected partners in Congress and doing everything we can.&#8221; And applause would erupt, and nothing much would change.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Trump &#8212; and this is smart, by the way. He\u2019s telling everybody in his own way what I told you a half hour ago. This is what reclaiming the country looks like, having these spoiled rotten leftist children and the professional rabble-rousers who are being paid to do what they\u2019re doing, this is what it looks like when they raise hell. This is what it looks like, they\u2019re trying to scare you into submission. They\u2019re trying to convince you it\u2019s not worth reclaiming your country. The price is too high, too much strife, too many explosions, too much damage, too many bombs, too much unrest, too much division, it isn\u2019t worth it. Let us have it, the left says, and they want you to back down. Here\u2019s what Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: The world is in trouble, but we\u2019re gonna straighten it out. Okay? That\u2019s what I do. I fix things. We\u2019re gonna straighten it out. Believe me, when you hear about the tough phone calls I\u2019m having, don\u2019t worry about it. Just don\u2019t worry about it. They\u2019re tough. We have to be tough. It\u2019s time we\u2019re gonna be a little tough, folks. We\u2019re taken advantage of by every nation in the world, virtually. It\u2019s not gonna happen anymore. It\u2019s not gonna happen anymore.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-217103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-Trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-Trump.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-Trump-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: He\u2019s got that speech pattern. He repeats things that he means twice. I actually think he\u2019s actually thinking what he wants to say next when he repeats himself. I\u2019m an expert in this stuff. I\u2019m an expert in the spoken word. I\u2019m an expert in the First Amendment. I know how the mind works when you\u2019re improving, and I know the various techniques and tools that people use, \u2019cause you gotta keep talking. You can\u2019t stop and make it look like you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re saying next. You can\u2019t stop and then figure out where you want to go next. It has to flow.<\/p>\n<p>And Trump\u2019s technique is to repeat his punchline while he then decides what he wants to say next, or you\u2019re waiting for the applause or what have you. In this case he was waiting for the applause, but his point was we are taken advantage of. This Australia thing is a great example. We weren\u2019t so much taken advantage of as the president at the time allowed us to essentially be the sponge and take up and accept the human debris the rest of the world didn\u2019t want. Bad actors from parts of the world that inspire militant Islamic terrorism, Obama would welcome them. But you weren\u2019t permitted to make any correlation.<\/p>\n<p>You weren\u2019t permitted to ask the cause and effect question. You just had to accept that Obama is smarter than the rest of us and drop it. Don\u2019t you dare ask why. If you did, you ran the risk of being labeled a racist, bigot, sexist, transphobic homophobe or whatever the phobes are now. Can\u2019t keep track of them. The left keeps inventing so many oddballs that I don\u2019t know what all the phobias are about them anymore. It used to be simple. Here is the Trumpster praying for Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s ratings on the TV show The Apprentice.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: We had tremendous success on The Apprentice and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Stop the tape. Recue it. Set this up. This is the National Prayer Breakfast. Trump has just had solemn messages about prayer, religious liberty and freedom, people telling him that they are praying for him, quoting Thomas Jefferson on the power of God, the relationship of God to liberty, and then at that same prayer breakfast we get &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: We had tremendous success on The Apprentice, and when I ran for president, I had to leave the show. That\u2019s when I knew for sure I was doing it, and they hired a big, big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to take my place. And we know how that turned out. The ratings went right down the tubes. It\u2019s been a total disaster. And Mark will never, ever bet against Trump again. And I want to just pray for Arnold, if we can, for those ratings, okay?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They started laughing, and they prayed for the ratings of Arnold Schwarzenegger. And as I said, I was watching CNN, and they had two different panels of guests assembled to discuss the mental instabilities of Donald Trump as indicated by that comment. I mean, they were grinding their hands, wringing their hands and, &#8220;Does it really mean, is he so, so sensitive, is so he egocentric that at the National Prayer Breakfast he just has to tell everybody how great he was? Can he not let go of his past? Can he not look to the future? Oh, my God, what have we done? Have we elected somebody genuinely mentally ill?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then another panel guest would weigh in on it, and he&#8230; (laughing) It wasn\u2019t a joke per se, but this is Trump! (laughing) Pray for Schwarzenegger\u2019s ratings! I laugh. I\u2019m not so tightly wound that this stuff offends me. And Schwarzenegger, by the way&#8230; They went out; they found Schwarzenegger. I guess they\u2019ve taped a bunch of episodes, \u2019cause they found Schwarzenegger at some rustic home. He had his firewood stacked on the porch, and he\u2019s out there looking like he\u2019s ready to go out and hunt big game or something and they asked him about Trump commenting on his ratings of The Apprentice.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_64ErJsOFPA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SCHWARZENEGGER: Hey, Donald! I have a great idea. Why don\u2019t we switch jobs? You take over TV &#8212; because you\u2019re such an expert in ratings &#8212; and I take over your job, and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. Hmm?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hmm? Now, the people at CNN, they loved that. They thought that one of the best put-downs they\u2019ve ever heard. They thought Schwarzenegger owned Trump with that put-down. They thought Schwarzenegger was great. They thought Trump had to eat it on that exchange. (impression) &#8220;Hey, Donald, let\u2019s change positions.&#8221; But Arnold\u2019s already done Donald\u2019s job in California. Need we say any more? We can ask, &#8220;How did it work out?&#8221; (interruption) Trump will double down at some point. He\u2019ll wait for the ratings, the next ratings the slide (laughing), and he\u2019ll have some comment about it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, the Mark that Trump was referring to is Mark Burnett, creator of The Apprentice. He\u2019s a very religious man. He\u2019s married to Roma Downey, and they\u2019ve done numerous documentaries, docudramas on the Bible. They did the latest version, movie version of Ben Hur, and that\u2019s why The Apprentice even came up. The creator, Mark Burnett, was there to introduce Trump. So the fact that he did The Apprentice&#8230; I mean, Trump didn\u2019t just pull it out of the sky. He didn\u2019t just want to insult Schwarzenegger.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-219954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Burnett.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Burnett.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Burnett-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>He probably wanted to actually compliment Burnett and razz him a little bit. &#8220;Hey, Mark, look what\u2019s happening since I became president and you don\u2019t have me on your show,&#8221; blah, blah, blah. It\u2019s not hard to understand people like Trump, and the left is just losing their minds because they don\u2019t have&#8230; Their lives are so sheltered. They really are. They don\u2019t understand broad-based senses of humor. They don\u2019t understand various personality types, because they\u2019re so damned restrictive in what they permit in terms of behavior.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve gotta comport &#8212; behavior, speech &#8212; to all the rest of the things they believe to even be in their crowd, to be in their group, otherwise you get send out, excommunicated. So they have a very narrow world, a small world of personality types, opinions. They really have walled themselves off, and what\u2019s funny about it is they think that they represent the vast majority of people all over the world, and they\u2019re in one of the tiniest clubs. Here\u2019s George in Quincy, Illinois. George, I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you on the program. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Great, Rush. Hey, I have a comment. I\u2019ll try to condense this into about 20 or 30 seconds. I know you\u2019ve mentioned quite frequently that Trump might not understand the ideologue part of the liberal attacks against him. But from the Midwest &#8212; and I\u2019ve actually talked to friends out in Coronado, California, where I have several friends, and they think Trump\u2019s losing support daily. But people in the Midwest are exactly the opposite. They see Trump as stronger. And I think what Trump\u2019s doing, I think he\u2019s sly as a fox. I think what he is doing on a daily basis &#8212; baiting the liberals in the media, baiting the liberals in Hollywood to attack him &#8212; it just gets him support. Much like you said every time Hillary Clinton opened her mouth, her support dropped 2%.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think this is the same. What he\u2019s doing by every time Madonna says something, Trump\u2019s support goes up 2%. And it\u2019s all about Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Who cares what people out in California think? Who cares what they think in Washington, DC, and New York? I think Trump\u2019s playing it very smart, and I think he totally gets it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So you think he totally understands the nature of the liberal opposition and is just tweaking them? He is baiting them? He\u2019s going out doing and saying things designed to drive \u2019em crazy \u2019cause when they speak up, Trump\u2019s base loves him even more. Is that it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think he\u2019s&#8230; I think it\u2019s a very nuanced battle, because, really, the future of the party really lies in that upper Midwest. He\u2019s never gonna&#8230; Those are the only states now that keep the Republicans in play four years from now and so forth. So I think he\u2019s playing it right. I think, yeah, there\u2019s some things he could do a little bit differently, but I think he\u2019s doing a great job of holding, you know, that area where there is thousands of Trump signs all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, I\u2019m not&#8230; No, no, no, no. I don\u2019t disagree with that. My comment that he doesn\u2019t understand ideologically who he\u2019s up against is based on other things, not that.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is after Trump prayed for Schwarzenegger\u2019s ratings at the National Prayer Breakfast.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the panel: Ryan Lizza from the New Yorker, Julian Zelizer, he\u2019s a professor of history at Princeton, and Costello, who says, &#8220;I don\u2019t even know what to make of this.\u00a0 He just prayed for Schwarzenegger\u2019s ratings.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what to make of it.\u00a0 Do you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LIZZA:\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe this is what the president\u2019s talking about right now, that he\u2019s engaged in a ratings back-and-forth with Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u00a0 The serious part for people is it points to something deeper, a kind of vindictive nature that we see in Donald Trump, now President Trump, that worries people.\u00a0 How does this kind of attitude play out on foreign policy or how will it play out on Capitol Hill?\u00a0 When you hear this I think it can raise some red flags.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-217827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpHat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpHat.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpHat-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>ZELIZER:\u00a0 To me it suggests that Trump is having difficulty adjusting to the role of president and he\u2019s still got a foot in his previous life.\u00a0 He\u2019s still monitoring and obsessed with the parts of his life before the presidency, which I do find a little unusual.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 You know what I think this is?\u00a0 I\u2019m gonna struggle to say what I really mean here, not that I\u2019m afraid to say it, I just want to find the right words.\u00a0 I think these people &#8212; two things are going on.\u00a0 They take themselves so damn seriously, for one thing.\u00a0 But they also have lived sheltered lives growing up, and they\u2019re continuing to live sheltered lives.\u00a0 They don\u2019t understand how real people talk and think and do things, and it scares them.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, they don\u2019t hang around with people unlike themselves.\u00a0 They hang around with other people who are afraid of their shadows.\u00a0 They hang around with other people who are obsessed with the right way to speak and the right way to dress and the right opinions to have and the right schools to have come from, the right restaurants you attend, the right friends, and they end up living closed-off lives, and they live in a part of the country that\u2019s unlike anywhere else, and I don\u2019t think they know how people &#8212; they can\u2019t comprehend how middle America thinks and votes for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>They do not understand how normal people think and how they talk.\u00a0 And, as such, it scares them, and since they have this air of superiority among themselves, anything other than what they are is lesser than they are, dangerously so. And so now we have this guy Trump who they can\u2019t understand why he would jag Schwarzenegger over ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Is it because these people have never really had to compete for what they have?\u00a0 Is it because they\u2019ve never really, really had to fight for what they have?\u00a0 Is it because they\u2019re all in the same club and they all go from newspaper to newspaper to network to network to blog site to blog site earning a little bit more money each time, then maybe they\u2019ll take some time and go work for a congressman, be a spokesman.\u00a0 But they all live in this tiny little world where everybody\u2019s identically the same in terms of the way they define themselves or the way they speak and their outlook.<\/p>\n<p>And then you have a guy like Trump who is of the real world, people tease each other all the time.\u00a0 &#8220;Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, but this is not proper conduct for heads of state.\u00a0 Heads of state do not, for example, when Mr. Trump calls the president of Mexico, he doesn\u2019t insult that nation\u2019s military.&#8221;\u00a0 Who says?\u00a0 Anyway, these people are so arrogant that they assign to Trump the abnormalcy, the irregularity, the out of the ordinary, the odd, the kooky, when I think it\u2019s them who define all of that.<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s these people who are cocooned and shut off. Political correctness determines everything they think and say. As a result they have no sense of humor.\u00a0 And when you don\u2019t have a sense of humor, if you don\u2019t have a sense of humor, you are never gonna understand Donald Trump, you\u2019re never gonna understand me.\u00a0 You\u2019re always gonna be threatened by somebody like me.\u00a0 Too outspoken, too insulting, too whatever they think it is.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-219986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/600-x-360-020217-Trump-Prayer-Breakfst-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/600-x-360-020217-Trump-Prayer-Breakfst-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/600-x-360-020217-Trump-Prayer-Breakfst.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>RUSH: This afternoon on CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer show, he spoke with the global affairs correspondent, CNN\u2019s correspondent for global affairs. That means whatever happens around the world, this is the reporter they go to. That reporter\u2019s name is Elise Labott. Speaking of which rhymes with rabbit, you know they had Groundhog Day today. And the environmentalist wackos are fed up with it and they want to end it, for two reasons. They think it\u2019s a misuse of the groundhog, and the second thing is the groundhog said six more weeks of winter, and that doesn\u2019t jibe with global warming.<\/p>\n<p>You know what? It\u2019s not even a groundhog. Do you know that? It\u2019s a marmot. Not even a real groundhog that they use. Punxsutawney Phil is a phony, a marketing imposter. Fake groundhog, a marmot, right, exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here is the global affairs correspondent on CNN, Elise Labott responding to Wolf Blitzer, who says, &#8220;Hey, Elise, there\u2019s no guarantee that those refugees that Australia is kicking out there, there\u2019s no guarantee that they could come to the United States following vetting?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LABOTT: There were some reports that the president hung up on the prime minister. I\u2019m told that\u2019s not entirely true, but I was told it was a very tense phone call. And I just think it goes to this style of this president. You know, look, his in-your-face kind of bull in a china shop style got him elected, very popular among a large section of the American people.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just a language that you use in diplomacy and around the world and a formality, especially when you\u2019re getting to know these world leaders and forming a relationship with them, that I think is being lost. To say that this is a bad deal and it was stupid and I can\u2019t believe you did it and then to go on Twitter and call it dumb, I mean, these world leaders\u2019 heads are spinning right now.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: As maybe they should be. You see, there is a decorum here, there is a sense of propriety, and Trump is violating it. You don\u2019t call \u2019em stupid, you don\u2019t call a deal dumb, you don\u2019t call it bad, and you don\u2019t go tweet about it. Well, what are we supposed to do, then, just sit by and let the deals Obama made happen and have a bunch of unvetted Islamic jihadists or potential Islamic jihadists admitted into the country?<\/p>\n<p>This is what Trump said he was gonna stop. This is an example of what Trump meant when he said our leaders are dumb, we\u2019re being taken advantage of. We, the United States, are bearing much more of a burden of all of these world problems. 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