The Other America: Trump Carries on with His Agenda

RUSH: Here’s some sound bites from Trump. He’s in Hialeah, Florida, near Miami today at Bucky Dent Park. This is a Tax Cuts for Florida Small Business roundtable. Again, this is the half of America that’s getting up every day going to work, making the country work, making the country run, doing what they have to do.

They’re not written about; they’re not talked about. It is assumed that that country doesn’t exist. The media portrays a country where everybody hates Trump, everybody regrets voting for Trump, everybody can’t wait for the Democrats to win. But that’s not the other half or whatever percentage. These roundtables, it’s kind of like they’re surreal. If your only exposure to the country is through the Drive-By Media, then you hear this kind of thing, you will obviously be a little surprised. Here’s a couple examples…

THE PRESIDENT: Since Election Day, we’ve created three million new jobs, three million.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

THE PRESIDENT: And if I would have said that prior to the election that we’ll create — in a short period of time — three million jobs, they would have said, “That’s ridiculous! That’s an exaggeration! How could it be possible?” We would have taken a lot of heat. But we’ve created three million new jobs and now the number is even higher than that. So since Election Day, three million new jobs. Unemployment’s rates for Hispanics?

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

THE PRESIDENT: For Hispanics — think of it — lowest level employment rates. For African-Americans, the lowest level ever recorded. And I’m really proud of it.

AUDIENCE: (applause)

RUSH: And it’s all true! It doesn’t get reported. It’s absolutely true. The lowest level of unemployment since 1973 for African-Americans. Ditto, Hispanic-Americans. It doesn’t get reported. But it’s happening out there in that half of America. But in the other half of America, what’s the media doing? They’re making everybody hysterical! It seems like if not every day, every week there is something new to be hysterical about.

At this roundtable, a … Hispanic guy got up and talked about his business that he started from the trunk of his car selling things to gas stations. You know, gas stations that have full-service sell trinkets and stuff that gas stations sell along with gasoline and other things. He started a business supplying them and now has a whole bunch of employees, and he’s at this little roundtable and he’s standing up proud as he can be of his business, and he’s telling Trump nowhere in the world but America could he have done what he has done.

He’s proud, he’s happy, and the crowd’s applauding. (clapping) That’s what this little roundtable is about. It’s about celebrating entrepreneurism, people who are making their way in the world, how things are working, how Trump’s tax cuts are helping people to do this. None of it was on TV today.

RUSH: It is a shame that we refer to this as the other America. But in the current media landscape of today, this is the other America. The America the media reports on is the America that hates Trump, that regrets voting Trump, that can’t wait ’til Trump’s replaced, and the media’s all about the efforts underway to get rid of Trump. And it’s made to look like that’s what the entire country wants to do.

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