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All right. The assassination of Donald Trump and anybody else in his near orbit that they can touch continues unabated today. The narrative, the Drive-By news. By the way, I don\u2019t know how many of you have taken up my suggestion. It was not a command. It was not an order. It was a suggestion. Just turn off the news, \u2019cause there isn\u2019t any news anymore, just turn it off.<\/a> I have, going on now 10 days — you know, two five day weeks.<\/p>\nHonestly, folks, I can\u2019t tell you how much my perception of things in general, the country, so forth, and my mood are so much improved. It\u2019s not smoke. I\u2019m not exaggerating here at all. As an illustration, we were guests of some buddies over in the Bahamas over the weekend on Sunday and Monday. And after playing golf all day Saturday, man, oh, man, my golf game — there are so many life lessons in golf. I wish you people didn\u2019t go stick-to-the-issues crazy when I start talking about golf because there\u2019s really some instructive stuff here that I could share with you.<\/p>\n
But, anyway, after golf all day, we had dinner. A bunch of people at the host\u2019s home, a bunch of people who also have homes at this place in the Bahamas. It was an august group of people. I\u2019m not gonna mention any names because these things are all private and I didn\u2019t ask anybody if I could quote them or mention them so I\u2019m not going to.<\/p>\n
But the point is that it was a getaway, it was fun, but at dinner all anybody wanted to talk to me about was the news, which, look, I\u2019m not complaining. I understand it. But before that began, you know, there are stages at a dinner party. You have the adult beverage, the cocktail hour and the hors d\u2019oeuvres are passed around and people that don\u2019t know each other are getting to know each other. You\u2019re sizing up who you want to avoid and who you don\u2019t want to talk to, and who you\u2019d like to meet and so forth. You do all that and then you sit down to dinner and after everybody\u2019s gotten to know each other, familiarity sets in, people let loose and start opening up.<\/p>\n
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And it was exhilarating because many of the people there did not have my take on things. It\u2019s always exhilarating when you have a point of view that a lot of people haven\u2019t considered. You see their eyes light up or, in some cases, they start muttering. (laughing) But it was exhilarating and it was fun. It was persuasive. It was a home run night, I have to tell you. But at the same time it caused all the angst that talking about this stuff causes. I\u2019m not complaining about it. It was just an illustration.<\/p>\n
So I tried to veer it away. There was an NFL owner there, so I tried to steer the conversation away after we\u2019d spent ample time on the country and Trump. What I always try to do, \u2019cause I\u2019m a great conversational, folks, probably nobody better. You know how to be a great conversationalist? Just ask people about themselves and shut up and let \u2019em go and they\u2019ll think you\u2019re the best conversationalist in the world. They\u2019ll think you\u2019re cool and hip, and you haven\u2019t said a word. You just gotta ask the right questions and get them launching \u2019cause everybody loves to talk about themselves.<\/p>\n
And in this case the people that were talking about themselves, it was fascinating to listen. There was a wide range of professionalism there. I wouldn\u2019t call these people jobholders. These are CEOs and owners and so forth. You get them talking about themselves and it\u2019s literally fascinating and a learning opportunity. I\u2019ve always said one of the greatest perks of my success has been the entree to meet people I otherwise would not have met and be able to talk to \u2019em, pick their brains and so forth.<\/p>\n
It was all good. But it starts off lighthearted, we\u2019re playing golf and so forth and then you get to dinner and it wasn\u2019t tense or nervous or anything, but it changed the mood, understandably. We\u2019re divided. So I, in my own mind want to save the day after saying what I had to say, after persuading the people I had to persuade, or giving it a good shot, then steered this stuff away. I\u2019m just telling you, it makes a remarkable difference in two things: your own mood and your perception of things that are going on the country.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t mean that you hide. I\u2019m not talking about building boundaries around yourself where you ignore things. You can\u2019t do that, and you people are way too informed and involved to ever do that. I\u2019m just saying buy yourself some time away from it and don\u2019t expose yourself to just one-sided BS, which is all the news is anymore. You\u2019re watching a hit squad. I don\u2019t care what network you watch. Some networks have less of a hit squad, but there are hit squad types on every network. Some networks are all hit squad all the time, and some networks just have a few assassins scattered throughout the day. That would be Fox. PMSNBC and CNN are all hit squad all the time.<\/p>\n
And their narrative is, “Our democracy is in peril. Our country is in giant trouble. We have ticked off the Germans. We\u2019ve made Angela Merkel mad.” Can you believe Angela Merkel, to show you how things have changed, not just here but in the world, Angela Merkel after the big G7 meeting where Trump upbraids her for not participating thoroughly and fully in NATO and basically not groveling like every other president has, you know, she\u2019s running for reelection. She went to a beer hall I think in Munich and she wanted to give people a dose of reality. And you know what she said, essentially?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m paraphrasing. Essentially she said, “The days of us being able to count on others are over. From this day forward, we\u2019re going to have to take care of ourselves.” And she was praised, as though it was meritorious. As though it was a problem, it was a change for the worse, that Germany was gonna have to be self-reliant and self-sufficient. In the old days, like five years ago, if you said that you wanted to depend on yourself and that you wanted to be self-reliant, self-sufficient, it was praiseworthy. But Angela Merkel goes out there and starts talking about all this, “Well, I guess we can\u2019t depend on them.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s 180 degrees out of phase. And I think, you know, Trump on this trip I think is the same Trump who\u2019s there all the time. For example, I don\u2019t believe Donald Trump is distracted. I don\u2019t think Donald Trump is sitting in the residence of the White House playing with marbles like Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny. I don\u2019t think that he\u2019s troubled. I think that he is solid, knows where he is. I think he\u2019s watching less of the news. He still tweets a lot, but I think he\u2019s watching less.<\/p>\n
See, I have a different narrative in the country here today, folks. My narrative is (and the facts support this narrative) American voters saved this country as we know it. My narrative is that Barack Obama is the one using intelligence agencies to spy on Americans. Barack Obama was the guy setting up back-channel communication links to the Iranians in order to do the prelude to a nuke deal that allows the Iranians to eventually have nuclear weapons. It was Barack Obama back channeling that. Barack Obama — even as a candidate — was doing such things.<\/p>\n Barack Obama was back channeling with Vladimir Putin via his foreign secretary at the time, Medvedev. Remember the old comment, the open mic? (paraphrased)”Hey, tell Vladimir to relax. I\u2019ll have a little bit more flexibility after the election.” He was talking about reducing the American nuclear weapons arsenal. These are the kind of things that were destroying this country, not to mention the cultural rot that has been promoted, inspired, and amplified by the American left. This country was on the verge of being transformed away from its founding.<\/p>\n They don\u2019t think we\u2019re anywhere near losing the country. They think that you and I and people who believe that the last presidential election was gonna be determinative in the kind of county…? They laugh at that. They don\u2019t think we\u2019re anywhere near that kind of condition. “We\u2019re not losing the country! You guys are crazy.” There\u2019s a sizable component of the Republican Party that thinks that, and a sizable component of the northeastern conservative — call it media movement or what have you — simply do not believe that there\u2019s this crisis because they don\u2019t live it.<\/p>\n Where they live, they\u2019re fine. There\u2019s no crisis. They\u2019re perpetual minority dwellers anyway, and they\u2019re comfortable there. That\u2019s their assigned role in life. But you and I, it\u2019s a much different take. We\u2019re on the verge of losing much of the foundation that defined this country. So that\u2019s a big wall there or a big division when it comes to unity. Then you add, you know, the problems… (chuckle) I hear Mitch McConnell, “I just don\u2019t seeee… I just don\u2019t seeeeeeee… I just don\u2019t see how I\u2019m gonna get to 50 votes on this health care bill.” For crying out loud! Before they had the majority, they said, “Well, you know, we only have the House.<\/p>\n “We don\u2019t have the White House, don\u2019t have the Senate. We can\u2019t really stop Obama.” So we gave the Senate. “Well, yeah, but now we don\u2019t have 60 votes in the Senate.” So we gave them the Senate with 52 votes, and then the White House. And now they can\u2019t… We\u2019re back down to 50 votes they can\u2019t find, not 60. Now we can\u2019t even find 50, when we have 52 Senators on our side! Did you see where a bunch of eighth graders were in Washington on a field trip and half of them refused to pose for a picture with Paul Ryan?<\/a> I saw some video of these eighth graders, and listened to them talk about why (chuckles) and I swear they were robots.<\/p>\n They were repeating what they have to be hearing in class from their teachers — and, perhaps, also at home. (interruption) Yeah, I mean, it was eighth graders. How old are you in eighth grade, 14? (interruption) How old\u2019s an eighth grader? I forgot. Thirteen, 14? I mean, it was literal… It was the same kind of hate that you hear out of Maxine Waters — who really did some hate on a constituent in California. We have that audio sound bite coming up. Eighth graders, folks, half of them. One of these kids (impression), “I just couldn\u2019t see myself standing in a photo with a man who puts his party ahead of country.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TigerWoodsNYPost.jpg\")
<\/a>My point, I don\u2019t think Trump is anywhere near the place that the Drive-Bys portray him as being every day. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s barely hanging on. I don\u2019t think his psyche is about ruined. I don\u2019t think that he is depressed and down in the dumps. And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any time soon that the cops are gonna catch him on the road, DUI, with a horrible mug shot not knowing where he is or how he got there. What a sad, sad, sad, sad and all too predictable story with Tiger Woods<\/a>, which of course I will get into a little bit later.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-053017-Obama-Iran.jpg\")
If Hillary Clinton had won in 2016, she would have been on the road to completing the Obama transformation. We wouldn\u2019t have the Supreme Court justice nominee and confirmation that we got. We wouldn\u2019t have any of the good things that Trump has done. You and I… In fact, this has always been my explanation of people about why there\u2019s not unity on the Republican side in opposition to Democrats, why there\u2019s not unity among conservatives. I\u2019ve always told you it\u2019s because — particularly in New York and Washington — Republicans, conservatives do not believe that we were in a crisis.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TrumpPresident320-1.jpg\")
An eighth grader? The Speaker of the House puts his party ahead of the country? Where does an eighth grader get that? Has to be… They don\u2019t come out of the womb thinking things like that, and they\u2019re not that far out of the womb in the eighth grade. I mean, they\u2019re still largely the product of influence, inculcation, indoctrination, propaganda. So, yeah, my narrative is — and it\u2019s supported by the facts — that American voters, you, saved the country as we know it. It was Obama and his team that were purposely undermining the America that we all love.<\/p>\n