RUSH: Sean in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Hi, Sean.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call —<\/p>\n
RUSH: My pleasure.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — because I am irate, if you want to be honest. I am a blogger — I\u2019m a political blogger — and I wrote over 200 blogs for this man, for President Trump, in favor of him, on what he campaigned on. And what I\u2019m seeing these past couple weeks, you know, I voted for Team Bannon. I did not vote for the president\u2019s daughter; I did not vote for Jared Kushner — two Democrats. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold it just a second there. Sean, you had to know, because it happened in the campaign. You had to know that Ivanka and Jared have his ear. You had to know. I mean, I know what you mean when you said you weren\u2019t voting for them, but you know. I mean, it\u2019s family. You know that they\u2019ve got his ear and that he\u2019s loyal to them.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I knew hey would have his ear. I did not know they would have so much pull. Because, you know, it\u2019s like just recently it came out that Kevin Hassett is coming on board. Well, he\u2019s for outsourcing! Trump was supposed to be anti-immigration, anti-outsourcing. You know, he\u2019s flip-flopped — within the past few days — on NATO. He was against it. Now he\u2019s for it. You know, China controls the currency. You know, now, “No, America,” and it\u2019s like, you know, and then this bombing in Syria.<\/p>\n
You know, at first I was like, “You know what? Yes, I guess we had to do it.” But then, I\u2019m hearing rumors that Ivanka saw the pictures of the babies and Ann Coulter made a great point. She said, “Republicans don\u2019t do things for humanitarian reasons.” I mean, there are children dying everywhere! There are children being shot in Chicago! I mean, is Ivanka gonna say, “Hey, Daddy, go to Chicago and bomb Chicago because people are getting shot”? I mean — and I know that\u2019s obviously a gross exaggeration, but it\u2019s very upsetting.<\/p>\n
I mean, I am talking to a man that\u2019s a Kurdish fighter for Kurdistan, and I\u2019m asking him about the gassing in Syria. You know what he said to me? And he\u2019s fighting with our men against ISIS. He\u2019s sending me videos of what\u2019s going on on the battlefield. I mean, these guys don\u2019t mess around. They\u2019re killing ISIS. He hates ISIS; he hates Assad. He\u2019d like America to come in and get rid of Assad, and I said something about the people that were gassed. He said, “I don\u2019t care about them. They\u2019re Arab pigs.”<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m thinking, “Then who are you?” It\u2019s a mess over there, and it\u2019s like, you know, it would be great in a perfect world to make a safe world and a better world for everyone, but, I mean, we spent $95 million — I think that\u2019s the figure for the Tomahawk missiles — and what did we fisher? That we\u2019re strong and we\u2019re not gonna watch people suffer? People are suffering every day. That $95 million? Hey! Could have helped fund the failing Obamacare.<\/p>\n
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I mean, the president has not passed one piece of domestic legislation. Has he done some good things? Yes, he has. Am I still behind him? Yes, I am. But I have some valid concerns. I voted for a non-establishment, a non-globalist, a non-Democrat. I voted for a Republican. I voted for someone who was gonna — who was gonna bring back the middle class, and tax reform isn\u2019t gonna be until next year until after Obamacare! The wall? That\u2019s been on the back burner. I\u2019m upset!<\/p>\n
RUSH: I hear that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Loud and clear. What I was… Before you were halfway through, I was thinking of trying to play devil\u2019s advocate with you on a couple of things, but you have covered the spectrum. You want me to play devil\u2019s advocate on just a couple things and get your take on them?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. I would. I would love your take.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not my take.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I just want to give you another way of looking at something and see you how react to it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let\u2019s talk about NATO. I\u2019ve mentioned this earlier today, so if you\u2019ve heard it, folks, please beg your indulgence while I go through it here with Sean. During the campaign, you\u2019re right. The president complained loudly that we were doing dumb things in NATO because most of the member states were not paying their fair share, that we were paying a way outside burden and we weren\u2019t getting anything for it. And it was stupid and dumb, and if it didn\u2019t change than NATO may as well just go away.<\/p>\n
People hear that and say, “Right on, man! We don\u2019t need to prop up these socialist democracies that won\u2019t pay their fair share. Right on, Trump, you go!” Now, Trump says all this and he raises hell and then he starts calling them out for not paying their dues. Now, guess what? These nations… All of a sudden, we got a statement today from the NATO secretary general that all of these nations Trump called out are now stepping up and paying their “dues.” Meaning: They\u2019re spending 2% of GDP on defense or they\u2019re intending to. They\u2019re allocating it.<\/p>\n
And so in that sense Trump is now saying NATO\u2019s okay because he made everybody play straight and contribute their fair share and essentially saved it. And he would tell you that his opener here during the campaign — ripping into NATO as something worthless and outmoded — was simply to get people to step up, pay their fair share. And he\u2019s done that. And therefore this is a success, not a flip-flop. If somebody explained it to you that way, what would your reaction be?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Then I would say, “He\u2019s a great manipulator and he accomplished what no one else has been able to accomplish.” And, you know, I applaud him for that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, let\u2019s go to the ChiComs.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You mentioned the Chinese and currency manipulation. You\u2019re right! During the campaign he beat up China every day he beat \u2019em up on the currency manipulation, he beat \u2019em up on trade he beat \u2019em up on outsmarting our own negotiators. He said it wasn\u2019t gonna go on any longer. Now all of a sudden, guess what happens? He has a meeting with the ChiCom leader at Mar-a-Lago, he has a phone call with the ChiCom leader, and ChiCom leader is now telling the North Koreans to stand down or the Chinese are gonna abandon \u2019em.<\/p>\n
Now, no matter how you look at it, that has to be looked at the in certain ways as a success because I\u2019ll guarantee you this, Sean, there is no way Barack Obama — I don\u2019t know anybody else — would have made the Chinese, convinced the Chinese, to abandon their communist blood brother North Koreans. So, yeah. He can say, “I was threatening them! I told them what-for. I told them we\u2019re not gonna screw around… If they keep manipulating the currency, we\u2019re gonna get it back in the way we trade.<\/p>\n
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And now he\u2019s converted this Xi Jinping leader in China into a… Well, it\u2019s all apparent. I mean, the threat that they made to North Korea is real, and North Korea\u2019s been out there launching missiles. They haven\u2019t been aiming \u2019em right. But they\u2019re threatening to do all kinds of things to us, and Trump threatened them. And the Chinese told the North Koreans, “He\u2019s not bluffing. Do not think he\u2019s bluffing.” The Chinese went to the North Koreans and said, “Do not look at this guy the way you looked at previous presidents. He intends to take you out if you keep this up.” Now, people would tell you this is a success in terms of foreign policy with the Chinese.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. No, I agree. Like I said, he\u2019s done some good things. But it\u2019s just… You know, it\u2019s hard to —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let\u2019s look at Syria. Let\u2019s look at Syria. You made the point that we can\u2019t go everywhere where there\u2019s suffering, children suffering. We shouldn\u2019t have Ivanka — because she sees pictures that make her cry — go to the president and him bomb the people responsible for it. The reason you have a serious complaint here is Trump\u2019s tweets during the campaign. There were numerous tweets — and I\u2019m sure you remember \u2019em — where he basically told Obama, “Don\u2019t go into Syria. It\u2019s a no-win. You can\u2019t. You don\u2019t even know if you\u2019re gonna hit the right target. If you hit the wrong target, you got a bigger mess than ever.<\/p>\n
“We need to spend that money in America, put America first, make America great. Don\u2019t waste it in Syria.” And yet here he is launching 59 Tomahawks into Syria. But what is the message sent? Those 59 Tomahawks, while the ChiCom leader is having dinner with Trump in Mar-a-Lago, probably went a long way to convincing the ChiCom leader to tell the North Koreans, “Look, this guy is a madman. You can\u2019t look at him as previous presidents! If he says he\u2019s gonna take you out, he\u2019s not bluffing. ” So these missiles that launch into Syria? It sends messages to Russia. It sends a message to the Norks and to the Chinese.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve had eight years of passivity with Barack Obama where whatever anybody around the world wanted to do to America, we just huffed and puffed and did nothing. And with Donald Trump, you want to do something to America, there\u2019s gonna be a price. And if you offend our sensibilities — and, say, it\u2019s a wanton violation of human rights like gas attacks — we\u2019re not gonna put up with it. And he says and does what he does. So the question is, as you…? Are these flip-flops and betrayals, or is it something else? And you\u2019ve decided that they\u2019re flip-flops and betrayals and you\u2019re not happy about it. Would you like to plug your blog? Would you like to give us the name of your blog?<\/p>\n
RUSH: GOPGirlBlog.blogspot.com. Okay.<\/p>\n CALLER: And I\u2019m fair to the president. You know what? I will always call him on all of this, you know, good things. I mean, you know, I just saw that we\u2019re deporting I think it\u2019s 4,000 Somalis, and I posted that on Facebook. I mean, I will always tout things that I think are great. But, I mean, I do get concerned when I see globalists that may be able to persuade him to go in a direction that I don\u2019t like him to go.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GOPGIRLBLOG.jpg\")
<\/a>CALLER: Sure. It\u2019s GOPGirlBlog.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n