https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/01/17/fake-news-fake-polls-drive-bys-claim-trump-has-lowest-approval-rating-of-any-president-elect/Fake News, Fake Polls: Drive-Bys Claim Trump Has Lowest Approval Rating of Any President-Elect
Jan 17, 2017
RUSH: Wait a second. Does it bother anybody that John Lewis is not gonna go to the inauguration? You know, he didn’t go to Bush’s inauguration, and he claimed that George W. Bush was illegitimate. Does it matter whether he goes or not? Why is it a big deal? Why do we need these guys there? Why do we need any Democrats there? Is anybody under the illusion the Democrats are gonna be eager to work with Trump here? If they show up at the inauguration, it’s only marketing. If they show up, it’s to be able to say later that they showed up with the spirit of cooperation.
“But Trump is so outrageous, there’s no way we can chime in and help on this.” Why do we need ’em? They just got schlonged. They just got beat. Why do we need ’em? “Mr. Limbaugh! Mr. Limbaugh! What about national unity?” Yeah, what about “national unity”? You know, national unity, national schmunity. We haven’t had national unity since the days of the founding. What we’ve had is political warfare. It’s common. It’s what’s built into our way of life, part of a democracy, our representative republic.
The objective is to beat these people, which is what we just did. Why feel guilty about it? “Yes, we just schlonged you. Now you need to join us.” It’s a great way to do it. Fine, if you want to approach ’em that way. But then when they don’t, it’s no reason to think, “Oh, this is horrible!” This is not horrible. These people have been decimated. The Democrats have been decimated at the state level. How many times…? I’m gonna point this out as many times as it takes. They’ve lost 1200 seats!
In fact, I made this point yesterday at RushLimbaugh.com in the “Just in From Rush,” little thing. It’s my version of tweeting except it’s exclusive to you at RushLimbaugh.com. I made the point that they’ve lost 1200 seats nationally, locally, state level since 2010, the midterms. They’ve only got four states where they have the governorship and the state legislature. They’ve literally been wiped out. Obama has presided over the repudiation of the Democrat Party. Why do we need these clowns?
We have just three days ago to go to the inauguration, and I’m told that today’s the last official White House briefing. It’s not the last official the White House anything. You think just because there’s not an official White House briefing that the Obama crowd’s gonna start shutting up after today? Ha! No way. Our inauguration plans… You should know, ladies and gentlemen, I have been begged by many to start the program early on Friday and to carry the inauguration live as the program begins.
Normally we start at six minutes after each hour, but the inaugural festivities are gonna begin earlier than that. So the plan here is for the EIB Network to hit the air around 11:54 a.m., six minutes early and, yes, I’m getting overtime for this. And at my rate, it’s significant. Six minutes of overtime, it’s huge. I demanded it; I got it. I demanded it because I can, and so we’re starting at 11:54, and we will be covering the inaugural festivities, and there will be ongoing commentary added by me, live, as it happens. That will happen nowhere else but here.
I mean, all the other networks and shows are gonna carry the inauguration but I doubt any of them are gonna be having ongoing commentary. Well, the TV news networks might have some people that provide commentary while it’s happening. You know, the various color, like pointing out the protesters. That’s what ABC, CBS, NBC will do. “Oh, look, a pocket of protesters there four blocks away! What’s this? The Washington police are moving in? How can this happen?”
Then they’ll look for the next little pocket of five or six protesters, never pointing out that they’ve all been paid $1500 to $2500 to be there, just like every other Democrat protest riot is bought and paid for as will these on Friday be. I mean, all these protesters at Trump rallies during the campaign were bought and paid for by the Hillary campaign. It was documented in secret video taken of Robert Creamer, who actually organized it all. And it’s gonna be the same thing here on Friday.
So the major networks are gonna be focusing on the protesters and the people that trying to make it look like the country opposes this and doesn’t like this and thinks the country made a mistake. That’s gonna be the focus of coverage everywhere. Not here. In fact, have you seen the…? (interruption) Mr. Snerdley, have you seen the opinion polls, the Trump approval numbers during the transition? He’s at “a record low,” folks. You should know, there’s been never been a more unpopular president-elect than Donald Trump, and we have it in two polls.
We have it in a CNN poll. (Yeah, we believe that.) We have it in an ABC News/Washington Post poll. (Yeah, we believe that.) He’s at 40%. The numbers are these. “President-Elect Donald Trump’s approval rating is down to 40%, according to a new CNN poll. Trump’s approval rating has drops six points since Election Day, making it lower than that of the last three presidents.” I mean, it’s predictable. They got the preelection polling wrong. Why should we believe any of this?
You can if you want. I mean, you might want to come up with reasons to justify it. I just think it’s funny. I think these efforts are just pathetic, that the Drive-Bys and the Washington establishment had making to discredit and to disqualify Trump to attempt to turn the nation against him even before he has been sworn in. The ABC News/Washington Post — it’s amazin — found the same exact number: 40%. Forty percent approve of Trump’s performance as president-elect. “A majority, 54%, have an unfavorable opinion of the incoming president, according to the Washington Post/ABC News poll.”
So what we are to believe here — and this is, by the way, you can make book on this happening. This always happens every time Republicans win. What we’re to believe here is that Donald Trump wins in nearly an Electoral College landslide, and the country is just excited. Every poll on public attitudes about the future are way up. Small business, individuals, you name it. Everybody’s excited about the future. People’s attitudes have shifted to the much more positive, and yet in the midst of all of this, we get two polls attempting to tell us that there’s now massive regret on the part of people that voted for Trump.
Yeah, all these people stayed loyal to Trump for a year and a half. He makes his announcement in June of 2015, and then the campaign goes through the end of that year and all through 2016, and Donald Trump smokes it. Donald Trump schlongs everybody, just goes out there and takes on all comers. His popularity ratchets up. His popularity increases. His rallies are populated by increasingly large numbers of people. People drive for four hours to attend a Trump rally. People stand in line outside. Trump gets elected.
And in just eight weeks, those same people now wish they hadn’t done any of that. In just eight weeks, Trump has had a massive defection of support. That’s what we are being led to believe. What do you bet these polls were taken in New York and California? The Democrat sample is New York and California and the Republican sample is Alabama, and that’s what they think is their great cross-section of America. I don’t know. I didn’t take the time to look at the samples or any of that, ’cause I think it’s funny.
Here’s a Drive-By Media montage. The breathless reporting of how poorly Trump is doing and how much support that he has lost. It’s just uncanny. The American people… See the story, the narrative, is the American people are slowly beginning to realize they made a big mistake. Now, as far as the Drive-Bys concerned, this is key, folks, because you lay that foundation: The American people, Trump voters, are beginning to realize they might have made a mistake. That tees up or sets up all of the stories on the Democrats, who knew from the get-go Trump would be a bad move; Trump would be a mistake.
It’s intended here to establish credibility, foresight, and precious on the part of Democrats and the establishment tried to warn everybody about Trump. “They tried, they tried, but you didn’t listen! But now you’ve seen it. Now you realize they’re right.” That’s the narrative they’re setting up, to automatically bestow credit on the people that lost, the people that got snookered big time and the people who have been repudiated and decimated.
The objective here is to make it look like the American people wish they had won, wish the Russians hadn’t hacked the election, wish the Russians hadn’t cheated for Trump, and wish that Hillary had won. That’s gonna be what this all leads up to. Here is the media montage. Oop! Oop. I had the wrong one in front. This is the media montage of Drive-Bys saying Trump will be inaugurated lowest approval rating ever…
MICHAELA PEREIRA: (music) “The President-elect has the lowest approval rating of any incoming President.”
CHRIS CUOMO: (music) “Donald Trump with an historic low approval rating heading into the White House.”
KRISTEN WELKER: (outdoor noise) “Mr. Trump could be sworn in with historically low approval ratings.”
SUSAN PAGE: “Donald Trump is going to be inaugurated with the lowest approval ratings of any President.”
DAVID CHALIAN: “It’s a historic low.”
MIGUEL MARQUEZ: “Donald Trump now has the lowest approval rating of any incoming President-elect in the history of Gallup polling.”
ALISYN CAMEROTA: “How do you explain these historically low approval numbers for an incoming President?”
RUSH: That’s Alisyn Camerota at CNN. Hey, I’ll explain it to you, Alisyn. Fake news! Fake polls! Simple. Fake news. Fake polls. Don’t doubt me on this, folks. Lowest approval rating after a year and a half when the nation loved Donald Trump, people just couldn’t get enough of him, and they elected him president. And in less than eight weeks, massive regret, massive buyer’s remorse? People that voted for Trump are now saying, “Oh, man, if we’d a known that we’ve seen the last eight weeks, there’s no way we would have voted Trump!”
Even though what they’re seeing the last eight weeks is exactly what they loved for a year and a half. Trump is Trump every day. It doesn’t matter before the election, after the election, they loved Trump. But now they don’t. Now they’re scared. Now they’re worried. And this sets up the media to portray the Democrats as once again the adults and the smart people in the room. It’s so predictable. It is classic. It’s all they know. It is exactly how they behave. Of course you have some Never Trumpers out there even on our side who are gonna eat all this up and act like they believe it and act like it’s true.
So you just sit back and watch it. It’s while all this is happening that this inaugural ceremony on Friday will be covered here live by the EIB Network with ongoing commentary offered by me.
