{"id":4702,"date":"2015-12-08T17:48:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T17:48:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-12-08T17:48:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T17:48:36","slug":"trump_supporter_read_the_art_of_the_deal_to_understand_what_he_s_doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/12\/08\/trump_supporter_read_the_art_of_the_deal_to_understand_what_he_s_doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Supporter: Read The Art of the Deal to Understand What He\u2019s Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: George, Kingwood, Texas. Sir, great to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush! Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Big fan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Look, Rush, what Donald Trump is doing — what he talks about — is what he talks about in The Art of the Deal. These Grahamnesty, establishment GOP and media types should know Donald Trump is about business —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: You see?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and it\u2019s what he wrote in The Art of the Deal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is fabulous.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What he\u2019s leading with is a bombastic offer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is absolutely great. George, thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate the service that you just performed. Let me explain to you what it is. George here is a Trump supporter. You know what that means? George supports Trump. George has undertaken to understand as much about Trump as he can. One of the things he\u2019s done is he\u2019s read Trump\u2019s book called The Art of the Deal. What does Trump talk about constantly in this campaign?<\/p>\n

He\u2019s gonna do great deals. We got stupid leaders doing bad deals, doing dumb deals, but he\u2019s gonna do the best deals this country\u2019s ever had made. He\u2019s the best dealmaker; he\u2019s the best negotiator. And everybody just sits around and goes, “What a braggart. What a bunch of bombast.” And they either laugh at it or they condemn it or what have you. But old George here probably knows something that most in the establishment, the ruling class, don\u2019t know, because they haven\u2019t read Trump\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

They wouldn\u2019t stoop to such depths!<\/p>\n

They wouldn\u2019t be seen reading Trump\u2019s book!<\/p>\n

Right in The Art of the Deal Trump says, if you\u2019re serious in a negotiation about wanting something — and, by the way, being serious is the only time to enter into it — and if there\u2019s something dead certain you\u2019ve gotta have, you have got to start out with the most outrageous position. The opener has got to be so outrageous that the compromise is exactly what you want. The opener is the most outrageous demand that you can make. So what old George is doing here is extrapolating Trump\u2019s negotiating skills and his technique with his political statements.<\/p>\n

And old George here is convinced that Trump isn\u2019t really gonna deport every Muslim, and he really isn\u2019t gonna keep every Muslim outta here. But he thinks Trump wants to wake everybody up. He thinks Trump does have some pretty serious ideas, and to get there, he\u2019s gotta start out with one of these outrageous things. So that when Trump backs off of it is when he appears reasonable, which is when you can finally make the deal with him. It\u2019s a strategy.<\/p>\n

Trump is bringing his business acumen to politics. That\u2019s something that politicians don\u2019t have: business acumen, many of them. And so they don\u2019t recognize it, and they don\u2019t understand it. So what would be the manifestation of this? How would this manifest? Okay. Well, let\u2019s go back and remember when Trump said that he\u2019s gonna deport every Mexican. Every illegal Mexican that\u2019s here is gonna get sent back. “They\u2019ve gotta go,” he keeps saying. “They\u2019ve gotta go back. They gotta go back.”<\/p>\n

His own son, Eric Trump, said just yesterday or the day before, “My dad believes in amnesty if it\u2019s earned. Once they\u2019re sent home, they can come back if they\u2019ll do so legally.” That\u2019s what his own son says the plan is. Trump hasn\u2019t said it. Well, maybe he even has, in certain ways. The point is that all of this bombast and all of this outrageousness is owning the media. It is shaping the media day. The media day is being determined by what Trump is saying, where Trump is, what people\u2019s reactions to Trump are. He owns it.<\/line><\/p>\n

As you just heard, more coverage than the entire Democrat presidential campaign, all those candidates combined. He has over twice the amount of news coverage that the media\u2019s own candidate, Hillary Clinton, is getting. And this is why I\u2019ve been dancing around the edges of this theory I\u2019ve been working on since late last week about the phenomenon of this campaign is that Trump owns the media and it\u2019s the media following along like puppy dogs. And wherever he goes, they are there. And whatever he says, they cover it. And the more out…<\/p>\n

As far as he\u2019s concerned, the more outrageous, the better. It calls attention to the point that he\u2019s making, and he ends up being the only person occupying his position. He\u2019s got no competition. Everybody else — everybody — is saying the exact the same thing, but none of them are saying what Trump is saying. So just in a political sense here, as I sit back literally objectively watch this rather than get all bent out of shape and emotionally attached to all this and just sit here and study it, it is literally fascinating. I have never seen anybody own the media like this.<\/p>\n

JFK did not own the media like this.<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton did not own the media like this.<\/p>\n

Nobody has ever owned the media like Trump.<\/p>\n

And when they media figures this out, the real fun thing to watch is going to be whether or not they can change the way they\u2019re covering Trump. But I don\u2019t think so, folks. You know why? They need his voters as audience. His support base is so huge, the cable networks want as much Trump as they can get. Forget their ratings. Forget what they think about what he\u2019s saying. Forget their outrage. Forget the fact that they can\u2019t believe somebody actually believes this kind of thing. Just as long as he\u2019s saying it on their network.<\/p>\n

The thing they fear most is Trump\u2019s voters not watching. Trump\u2019s audience may be bigger than… There\u2019s no question it\u2019s bigger than CNN\u2019s. The number of people supporting Donald Trump dwarf the total audience of CNN, for example. Just last night on Fox, Greta Van Susteren turned her show over to a Trump personal appearance where this whole Muslim thing is being discussed. It\u2019s a ratings goldmine. It\u2019s ratings gold. Literally, Donald Trump has these people palm of his hand.<\/p>\n

As I say, those of you in this audience who\u2019ve been angry and frustrated and think the media is our biggest enemy and the biggest obstacle, here\u2019s somebody showing you that it\u2019s possible to neuter them. And by saying “neuter them,” they\u2019re not supporting Trump, and they have not changed their hatred for Trump. But the fact is, it isn\u2019t mattering. They cannot harm his support. They can\u2019t take him out. They can take anybody else they want to. They can destroy any of these other candidates any day they decide to, and everybody in the game knows they can.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why everybody defers to \u2019em, Republicans and Democrats alike. The Republican establishment has been sitting around here waiting for the media to do its dirty work for \u2019em. And the media\u2019s been trying, except the media unwittingly has been promoting Trump and amplifying his message. All of this supposed outrageous stuff that he\u2019s saying? They\u2019re making it even bigger. They are taking it to an even wider audience.<\/line><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s costing Trump what? Zero. And here\u2019s a Trump supporter, a caller, who understands what\u2019s going on. (laughing) “Hey, Rush it\u2019s just The Art of Deal! Read the book. This is his outrageous, bombastic opening position. It\u2019s all part of a negotiation.” Trump\u2019s supporters know. They\u2019re in on the gag or in on the deal, whatever it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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