{"id":4632,"date":"2015-12-16T17:35:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:35:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-12-16T17:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:35:38","slug":"this_moment_explains_why_trump_doesn_t_get_hurt_by_the_things_he_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/12\/16\/this_moment_explains_why_trump_doesn_t_get_hurt_by_the_things_he_says\/","title":{"rendered":"This Moment Explains Why Trump Doesn\u2019t Get Hurt by the Things He Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Cookie went and rolled off the answer Trump gave to the question from Hugh Hewitt about whether he will run third party or not. This is what I talked about at the opening of the program<\/a> where Trump drops the performance persona and communicates. This is an example of many; these things happen frequently in his personal appearances. I\u2019m only illustrating this, or mentioning it, because so many people still wonder how it is that Trump doesn\u2019t get hurt by what some people think are the stupid things he says or the ignorant things he says or the mean things he says or the controversial. <\/p>\n

The things that would normally destroy others he profits from. And professional communicators are scratching their heads, professional political people are scratching their heads, it doesn\u2019t make any sense. They\u2019re still hoping that Trump will implode. He\u2019s not gonna implode, and I\u2019m just trying to help people understand why. It\u2019s all rooted in the bond, the connection that Trump has made with the people who support him. And, by the way, that bond is rooted in substance. <\/p>\n

If you want to further understand it, last night Trump — I mean, a lot of people are saying, “Boy, Trump really embarrassed himself last night. He didn\u2019t even know about the nuclear triad.” Yeah, I noticed that. But it\u2019s not gonna hurt him. And some of you might be, “Well, it damn well ought to. I mean, if you don\u2019t know what the nuclear triad is and your president of the United States.” He\u2019ll find out what it is. How many people know about the nuclear triad? <\/line><\/p>\n

I happen to know what it is. It was another one of these esoteric kind of questions, valid but nevertheless esoteric. But here\u2019s the thing. Of everybody in this field right now, Donald Trump was the first to tap into, viscerally, what Americans are feeling and living. This is not to slight anybody else. This is not to be critical of anybody else. He started with the border, the southern border, and worked his way to refugees and the economy and any number of things that are making this country weak and said it\u2019s got to stop. And during all of this he let everybody know that they were right. <\/p>\n

He validated what millions of people were already thinking. This is what the establishment of both parties misses. They think that most of the people this country are brain-dead, sponges, mind-numbed robots waiting to be influenced by any number of false prophets or phony Svengalis, because they have a basic contempt for average, ordinary people and what they consider to be their lack of mental ability. So they\u2019re dead wrong about that. <\/p>\n

So Trump comes along, and he didn\u2019t say anything anybody else wasn\u2019t thinking. He said something everybody was thinking. He said lists of things everybody was thinking. He validated and he let everybody know that they were right, that America is not great with Obama and the Democrat Party in charge. America is not even trending to the great with Obama and the Democrat Party in charge, and Trump did not need a focus group or polling data to tell him this. His heart told him. His instincts told him. It\u2019s what he saw, he went out and said it. Call him Captain Obvious. And collective politicians have their heads in the sand. <\/p>\n

So all Trump has to say, like he said last night, nothing in our country works. He\u2019s mining gold when he says that. It\u2019s a true statement. Nothing in the country is working right now. It doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s the best person to be president, but I know Trump has his finger on the pulse of the people. Now, whether that qualifies him to be president, that\u2019s for voters, obviously, to decide. But this is why he leads nationally. <\/p>\n