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CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\nRUSH: Look, let\u2019s JIP this.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Trump is addressing a group of people in Washington, and I\u2019ll tell you who after a little bit of it. Just want you to get a flavor for this.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They love him in this group.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s all I\u2019ll tell you.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you who it is in a minute.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: Washington and Wall Street have done very, very well for themselves. Now it\u2019s your turn, and you\u2019re gonna be also sharing the wealth.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: He\u2019s talking to union guys, folks!<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: And, you know, for many years we\u2019ve been taken advantage of by other countries. All over the world, they took advantage of us. We had leaders that didn\u2019t have a clue or worse. That\u2019s not gonna happen anymore, folks. It\u2019s not gonna happen anymore. And you see what\u2019s going on right now. In fact, the trade deficit went way down. Just announced before I got on stage. And I will tell you, we\u2019re gonna have a whole different set of values when it comes to representing our country.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: That I can tell you right now.<\/p>\n
RUSH: North America\u2019s Building Trades Unions conference.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: This election was all about returning power to the people. I\u2019ve spent my life working side by side with American builders, and now you have a builder as your president.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (whistles and applause)<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: One of my first acts as president was to stop one of the great sellouts of the American worker. I immediately withdrew the United States from the disaster… This would have been a disaster.<\/p>\n
RUSH: TPP.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: This would have been another NAFTA — which, by the way, is a disaster. I took you out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. That\u2019s enough. I just wanted to give you a flavor. He\u2019s being overwhelming standing ovation\u2019d. He is being applauded left and right. He spoke with CEOs this morning. He had a giant chart that is too big to describe listing all the regulations that the CEOs and others have to navigate in order just to build anything. Today, he\u2019s meeting with the building and trades unions. When he began this, he started with every job there is. The bricklayers, and they cheered. Then the plasterers, and they cheered. And the drywallers, and they cheered.<\/p>\n
He went through every job there is, because he hires them. He knows who you are. He said, “You\u2019re the builders! You\u2019re the greatest builders, and you can build anything. With the talent in this room, we can build anything again in this country,” and they\u2019re standing up and they\u2019re going nuts. This is a Republican president addressing trades union rank-and-file and leadership. And he\u2019s being warmly, warmly received. This is something that we haven\u2019t seen in quite a long time, and this is another constituency of the Democrat Party that he\u2019s taking direct aim at here.<\/p>\n
One observation here about President Trump — and I know a lot of you think about this a lot. A lot of you when you watch the serious effort to destroy not only the man and his life, but his presidency — you watch it, you see it every day — you get angry. But it\u2019s very difficult to imagine it happening to you. Most people do not think that they are prominent enough to be the target of this kind of total destruction campaign. But when you try to put yourself in that situation and you try to imagine what it\u2019s like, it\u2019s very, very difficult.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know… You in this audience may have a good bead on this. I don\u2019t know how many people realize just how difficult this is to have the entire apparatus of the moneyed establishment arrayed against you, trying to destroy you, trying to destroy your family, trying to destroy your life, trying to end and ruin your reputation, trying to destroy your presidency, trying to do everything they can to literally ruin you. You put yourself in that situation; you ask yourself, “How would I hold up? How would I bear up under this? Could I do it?”<\/p>\n
I just have to tell you… We made mention of this yesterday. While all of this is going on, Trump, when you get down to nitty-gritty, is undaunted. He is doing what he said he was going to do during the campaign. He is dismantling as much of what Obama put in place as he can. He is ripping apart so much of what was destructive about the Obama administration. He is committing and following through on every promise that he made. Now, this is not a… I\u2019m not trying to hype Trump or sell you on Trump.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m just observing what I see here, that this effort to distract him, to sidetrack him, to ruin his mad, to turn him into a sourpuss, to turn him into somebody constantly whining and moaning, it isn\u2019t working. He is continuing. He\u2019s focused on what he said he was going to do that, in his mind, constitutes making America great again. I think it\u2019s a monumental feat here, and I think it requires a certain personality type. I really do. I don\u2019t think there are very many people that could bear up under this.<\/p>\n
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As evidence, look how easy it\u2019s been for this Washington media-Democrat complex to paralyze most every Republican in town, and not just this year. Any number of years. You go back in the past; it\u2019s been easy for them to paralyze Republican opposition, to stop it dead in its tracks. It\u2019s not working on Donald Trump. Despite their best efforts to make it look like it is working, it isn\u2019t. He is continuing to fulfill his promises. He\u2019s continuing to unravel elements of the Obama administration that he can touch by virtue of executive order and this kind of thing.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think this characteristic is played up enough, this human characteristic, this ability to bear up under an assault like this that very few people endure. A lot of people in politics do, but compared to the entire population of the country, there aren\u2019t a lot of people who can totally relate and understand what something like this is like. And, therefore, they may not be able to fully appreciate the yeoman effort to stay focused and remain undaunted and not be sidetracked by this. It\u2019s an amazing thing, and I\u2019m certain it requires a certain kind of ego, a certain series of character traits in order to be able to do this.<\/p>\n
They say Trump\u2019s an egomaniac, and they say that he makes everything about him and he\u2019s totally self-conscious. I wonder about that. I know he\u2019s got a healthy ego. But the main pitfall that most people face is being totally defined by what other people think of them. And that is rooted in self-consciousness, thinking about yourself all the time and wondering what other people think of you and wondering what other people are saying about you. Apparently, Trump\u2019s unaffected. He may be disappointed. He may not have expected it would be this bad. But it doesn\u2019t matter. He\u2019s forging ahead.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t appear that this is affecting him psychologically at all, and I just think that\u2019s overwhelming. I think it\u2019s amazing to watch. I\u2019ll give you something else that Trump is doing here. This is in the Wall Street Journal today. You know all these travel bans that these little judges have shut down and the left thinks that they have won and they\u2019ve stopped Trump\u2019s efforts to keep bad actors out of the country. Look at what Trump\u2019s doing on building the wall, forging ahead on enforcing the law in sanctuary cities. And here in the Wall Street Journal — and I don\u2019t know how you\u2019re gonna feel about this, but Trump is not being deterred.<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s not stopping.<\/p>\n