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The Associated Press reports:
President Donald Trump, still White House bound after his COVID-19 diagnosis, called into the Rush Limbaugh show for a radio “rally” with the conservative talk host.
Limbaugh started what he describe as a “mega, MAGA rally” — in which Trump is expected to take questions from callers — by praising Trump as the “strongest, most unwavering” leader.
Limbaugh also called it “breathtaking” the difference between the Trump he knows and how he’s portrayed in the media. Trump talked up his prospects in the face of grim polls, blamed media “poisoned by their own hatred “and assured Limbaugh that his recovery is going well.
The New York Daily News reports:
President Trump joined Rush Limbaugh for a rambling afternoon chat where the commander-in-chief said he’s no longer suffering from COVID-19. “I’m telling you we have a cure, more than just a therapeutic, we have a cure,” Trump told Limbaugh’s conspiracy craving radio audience Friday.
After boasting that his administration had cleaned-up V.A. hospitals nationwide, Trump praised medical experts at Walter Reed for allegedly making his recovery possible. “I was in not great shape, but we have a medicine that healed me that fixed me, it’s a great medicine,” he said. “I recovered immediately.”
Rush Limbaugh begins this “radio rally” by playing Trump’s walk-up music and then a tape of crowd noise of people chanting “we love you.”
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 9, 2020
“If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.” — the President of the United States pic.twitter.com/RfDKchaw7i
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 9, 2020
“You don’t win California because everybody likes to vote 3 times” — Trump suggests without evidence to Rush that he only loses California because of massive election fraud, not because he’s about as popular there as the bubonic plague pic.twitter.com/UA5bQ9sczb
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 9, 2020
Into hour two or media criticism and we have a @maggieNYT name-check, just so we’re all aware who continues to live rent-free in the president’s head.
Rush concurs, says “there wasn’t a word of truth” in any of the stories published the first two years of the Trump presidency.
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 9, 2020
Trump: “I watch it…” Trump says, going through the Fox anchors — and making clear, as if his daily schedule didn’t already, that he spends most of his day watching TV.
Rush: “You are a TV expert.”
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 9, 2020
Here’s the fuller Trump quote:
“The first time I heard Black Lives Matter, I thought that’s such a terrible term, it’s such a racist term.”
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 9, 2020
Trump says mail ballots “will be the second biggest political scandal in American history” right behind “the Russia crap.”
Rush: “What are you doing about it?!”
Trump: “We have many lawyers… I want to see on Nov. 3 who won the election!”
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 9, 2020
“My people tend to — and they’re all my people — but Republicans…” tend to vote in person.
Rush says Democrats need “a little yellow bus picking ’em up, taking ’em to the polls.”
Trump: “Right, right.”
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 9, 2020
Rush Limbaugh just asked Trump to explain fracking. Trump’s explanation: “They can drill sideways, they can drill up and down and around … and they just suck stuff out of the ground. It’s just incredible, the technology.”
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) October 9, 2020
2 hours Trump spent on Rush Limbaugh’s show…and it ends with music playing over Trump talking.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) October 9, 2020
Rush Limbaugh nods along to Trump calling for trillions in stimulus spending three weeks before an election while Meadows works to illegally send $200 gift cards to seniors. Obviously this movement was all about deficits and fiscal discipline and opposition to big government.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 9, 2020
Trump has lost his natural mind, and is giving nonsensical interviews on Fox News and now Rush Limbaugh that will not only hurt what is left of his campaign, but also take his GOP enablers down with him. This seems an appropriate way to wind things down.
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) October 9, 2020