President Barack Obama will have a willing partner in the mainstream media when he decides to publicly challenge President-elect Donald Trump's rollback of much of his legacy, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Monday.
Limbaugh years ago predicted Obama would stay in Washington after his term ends so he can remain an influence. Traditionally, past presidents fade into the background and don't publicly criticize those who come after them. However, Obama will be a relatively youthful 55 — and, as Limbaugh notes — has pushed through much of his agenda in his second term through executive orders.
Officially, Obama says he and his family are staying in D.C. because his children have not yet finished high school, but Limbaugh isn't buying any of that.
And Obama himself has in recent days confirmed the conservative talk giant's prediction that Obama would speak up when Trump works to undo much of his work to move the country to the left.
Now, Limbaugh says, the media will be happy to aid and abet.
"When Trump is inaugurated and starts doing whatever he's going to do, whatever that is, and if it involves unwinding, unpacking, unraveling anything Obama holds dear, he's gonna be calling ["Meet the Press" moderator] Chuck Todd, he's gonna be calling Scott Pelley over at CBS, he'll call little Brian Stelter or Wolf Blitzer over at CNN," Limbaugh told his radio audience on Monday.
"He's gonna call 'em all, and he's gonna start explaining why what Trump's doing is horrible and terrible and he's not gonna sit there and let it happen. It took too much political capital, he'll say, it took too much work. It's too important. We cannot allow this progress, he will say, to be rolled back. The lives of too many people will be affected, we can't. And the media will champion what Obama is saying."
The media, Limbaugh said, will do all it can to make it look like the entire country agrees with Obama.
"The media will go find a straggler here or there, maybe go back to Warren, Ohio, and find a guy who claims he voted for Trump but he didn't mean for any of this to happen," he said. "And those are gonna be front page, lead stories, unhappy, disgruntled Trump voters claiming that they were lied to, claiming this is not what they intended."
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