{"id":259954,"date":"2018-01-10T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=259954"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:02:53","slug":"trumps-take-the-media-loved-my-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/01\/10\/trumps-take-the-media-loved-my-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Take: The Media Loved My Meeting!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Let\u2019s get the president\u2019s take on what he did yesterday<\/a>. We have that. The president\u2019s cabinet meeting shortly after the program began, and there was the media for the first five minutes of it before they were eventually kicked out, but before they were kicked out, the Trumpster spoke about what happened yesterday.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: It was a tremendous meeting. Actually, it was reported as incredibly good, and my performance, some of them called it a performance, I consider it work. But got great reviews by everybody other than two networks, who were phenomenal for about two hours. Then after that they were called by their bosses, “Oh, wait a minute.”<\/p>\n

And, unfortunately, a lot of those anchors sent us letters saying that was one of the greatest meetings they\u2019ve ever witnessed. And they were great, for about two hours they were phenomenal, and then they went a little bit south on us. But not that bad. It was fine. They probably wished they didn\u2019t send us those letters of congratulations. But it was good. I\u2019m sure their ratings were fantastic. They always are. Which is why I think the media will ultimately support Trump in the end because they\u2019re gonna say if Trump doesn\u2019t win in three years, they\u2019re all out of business.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Well, there you have it! It was the greatest meeting ever, there\u2019s never been a greater meeting, and the media loved it so much they sent him congratulation letters. “Congratulations, Mr. President, this is what we expected, this is what we hoped for, this is what we wanted to see from you.” Media people sent him congratulation letters and they were praising him for two hours.<\/p>\n

And then their bosses couldn\u2019t take any more and made \u2019em start ripping Trump, but that\u2019s okay. That\u2019s okay. They were phenomenal for two hours and then they went a little bit south. Now they\u2019re probably regretting that they sent Trump the congratulation letters but that\u2019s okay, \u2019cause all that matters is the ratings were fantastic and the media learned again that they can\u2019t keep their ratings and keep the interest without Trump, which means, “Screw you, Oprah, in 2020.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. I intended to get your phone calls in in the first hour, but then we got the Trump sound bite on his take on his meeting yesterday. Congratulation letters from people at two networks. I wonder if one of them was Jim Acosta? Who sent these, I wonder? I\u2019d like to know who sent the two congratulation emails to Trump on a great meeting, attaboy, way to go, we knew you could do it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, let me play it again, and you analyze it yourself. This is just moments ago before a cabinet meeting, before the press was kicked out, and it\u2019s the president reviewing his immigration meeting yesterday, most of which was televised.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: It was a tremendous meeting. Actually it was reported as incredibly good, and my performance, some of them called it a performance, I consider it work. But got great reviews by everybody other than two networks, who were phenomenal for about two hours. Then after that they were called by their bosses, “Oh, wait a minute.”<\/p>\n

And unfortunately a lot of those anchors sent us letters saying that was one of the greatest meetings they\u2019ve ever witnessed. And they were great, for about two hours they were phenomenal, and then they went a little bit south on us. But not that bad. It was fine. They probably wished they didn\u2019t send us those letters of congratulations. But it was good. I\u2019m sure their ratings were fantastic. They always are. Which is why I think the media will ultimately support Trump in the end because they\u2019re gonna say if Trump doesn\u2019t win in three years, they\u2019re all out of business.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. There\u2019s Trump talking about his meeting yesterday. Now, the rest of us talking about it are down deep in the weeds of the policy. And we\u2019re analyzing what Diane Feinstein said. We\u2019re analyzing what Trump said and didn\u2019t say. We\u2019re analyzing how Trump behaved and how Trump reacted. We\u2019re analyzing the Republicans. We\u2019re down there in the weeds, folks. We\u2019re examining this. And what\u2019s Trump\u2019s take? Well, it was a performance. Mission accomplished. Got some congratulatory letters. What do you think that\u2019s about?<\/p>\n

I can tell you, if those letters were actually sent, you know what it was? I will guarantee you that if those letters were sent, it was an applause for opening the meeting to cameras and a request to keep doing it. And they might have, in order to secure that, they might have praised Trump. “You\u2019re the best president ever. We knew you had it in you. You should keep doing this.” But the letters were primarily — I\u2019m surmising here. I, of course, don\u2019t know because I\u2019m no closer to the White House than where I am here in Florida. But I\u2019m just guessing, if those Drive-Bys sent those letters, it\u2019s a request to keep doing this, with some flattery thrown in.<\/p>\n

But Trump correctly noted that after about two hours the Drive-Bys started going south on him, because they realized what had happened. See, they can\u2019t help but analyze Trump — and most everybody else did, too, except for me — they analyzed Trump within their universe. Every day they plug Trump into the way the establishment works, the way Washington works, the way things happen. And you can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

\"\"So Trump\u2019s review of the meeting yesterday was how much the media loved it. He didn\u2019t say a word about immigration or the future or DACA or any of that. He didn\u2019t say what anybody would expect him to say. “Well, it was a good start. I think we laid some good groundwork. They know where I\u2019m coming from. I heard what they want to do, and we got a great bit to move forward from.”<\/p>\n

None of that. “It was great. The ratings are no doubt through the roof. They sent me congratulatory notes, and they know they need Trump.” So, given all that, I still ask you what\u2019s your take. Your calls are coming up. There\u2019s one more Trump bite here following that little bit that we just played. He continued.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: We agreed to pursue four major areas yesterday of reform: securing our border, including, of course, the wall, which has always been included. Never changed. Ending chain migration, canceling the visa lottery and addressing the status of the DACA population. We want to see something happen with DACA.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I have to tell you that you ask anybody else in that meeting yesterday, and none of that was agreed to. In fact, I have looked at some of the critics, both left and right, of Trump. And they\u2019re mad that he appeared to cave on the call. They\u2019re mad that he didn\u2019t say anything about chain migration in the meeting yesterday. They\u2019re mad that he didn\u2019t say anything about the visa lottery.<\/p>\n

And yet here\u2019s Trump\u2019s review: “We agreed to pursue four major areas of reform: the wall, and that\u2019s never changed, ending chain migration, canceling the visa lottery, and addressing –” you go ask Dianne Feinstein if she thought any of that happened yesterday, and I guarantee you she\u2019s gonna say, “I don\u2019t know. I was illegally releasing some testimony.” Well, I don\u2019t remember hearing any of that.<\/p>\n

And if you go ask Dick Durbin, you go ask Steny Hoyer, “What? We didn\u2019t agree to chain migration. We didn\u2019t agree to the wall. We didn\u2019t agree to the visa bill. What is he talking about?” This is why my take on this, I think, is unassailably correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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