The Supposed Isolationist Just Dropped the Biggest Non-Nuclear Bomb We’ve Got on Afghanistan

RUSH: I have been struck by something.

You know, after the 59 Tomahawks were launched into Syria, there were a bunch of Trumpists, famous Trumpists who were not happy. They began tweeting immediately: “Trump said he would never do this. This is not America first. This is not putting America first. This is not making America great again. Trump said he wouldn’t be doing these kinds of military interventions anymore.” So I began to think, is that true? Did Trump campaign frequently, reliably promising there would not be any U.S. military intervention abroad? That’s another question I must put to you Trumpists.

I realize a lot of people interpreted that that is what Trump meant when he said, “Put America first,” and he was talking about NATO. With NATO he never said NATO had to go away. He just said the people running it are not paying their fair share, and we’re not gonna continue to pay way beyond our share here. We’re not gonna bear the burden. If NATO’s gonna mean anything, these people gotta play ball.

By the same token, I was trying to remember last night — I Googled it, looked around — I couldn’t find it, as in white paper policy positions, Trump claiming consistently and often, that there would never be any military intervention around the world. But, boy, did people think that’s what he meant. There was a lot of interpretation. Putting America first, making America first, making America great, America only, no more wars in the Middle East.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have been struck by something. After the fifty nine
Tomahawks were launched into Syria, there were a bunch of Trumpists,
famous Trumpists, who were not happy, and he began treating
immediately that Trump said he would never do. This is
not America first, This is not putting American first, is

(00:21):
not making America great again. Trump said he wouldn't be
doing these kinds of military interventions anymore. So I began
to think, is that true. Did Trump campaign by commonly, frequently,

(00:43):
reliably promising there would not be any US military intervention abroad.
That's another question I must put to you Trumpists, because
I think back on I realized a lot of people
into herpreted that that is what Trump meant when he

(01:03):
said put America first, and he was talking about NATO.
With NATO, he never said NATO had to go away.
He just said that people running they're not paying unfair share,
and we're not going to continue to pay way beyond
our our our share here. We're not going to bear
the burden. If NATO's gonna mean anything, these people gotta
play ball. By the same token, I was trying to

(01:24):
remember last night. I googled it, looked around I couldn't
find consistent as in white paper policy positions, Trump claiming
consistently and often that there would never be any military

(01:44):
intervention around the world. But boy did people think that's
what he meant. There was a lot of interpretation putting
America first, making America first, making America great amer area only,
no more wars in the Middle East. Like pab you
can and definitely thought that's what Trump meant. Pat's not happy.

(02:08):
Pat wasn't happy. When you've heard the first of fifty
nine tomahawks got launched. He did not think. He thought
those days were over. A lot of prominent Trump hasts
thought those days were over and thought that's what Trump was.
He's attacking trade deals, he's attacking TPP NAFT in all
this and criticizing Obama for his you know, half baked

(02:34):
military maneuvers around the world, but actually assuring or promising
people that the days of the United States intervening around
the world were over. I just I don't I don't
think I remember that as a staple of the campaign.

(02:56):
How about you, Mr Snurdley, do you remember that as
a staple of Trump's campaign? When you think about you
think about Trump and the campaign, and you apply what
you remember from the campaign to the way he's governing.
Does that like you? You you inform me earlier. He's
consistent as he can be. An immigration. They're not waffling
on it at all. They're not waffling on bringing jobs,

(03:16):
on American economic upward mobility, all this stuff fixing healthcare
by the way, Mark Meadows saying they may have a
replacement bill before the recess on healthcare. Oh, here's another
one where they very public Trump is to think that

(03:39):
the president was going to harold a new era of isolationism,
which is really what I guess that's what they thought
Trump was. I thought he was an isolationist. Make America
great again, and only make America. We're not gonna make
anybody else great again. They're on their own. We're gonna
make ourselves great and do whatever it takes to make
ourselves great. And that's it. Well, the United States has

(04:01):
just dropped the largest non nuclear weapon in our arsenal
on an Isis tunnel in Afghanistan. Again, the largest non
nuclear bomb in our arsenal has for the first time

(04:21):
been deployed. It's been dropped, It's been used on an
Isis tunnel in Afghanistan. Bomb was dropped in the Nangarre province.
The Pentagon is confirmed last radius believed to be over
three of football field. Essentially, the weapon is described as
the Father of all bombs, not the mother of all bombs,

(04:46):
the father of all bombs in an obviously pentagon sexist comment.
And it is the very first time the weapon has
been used in combat. So there will be a lot
of people here who are going to be very very

(05:08):
much concerned about this. But I asked you to think
back to the campaign. What did Donald Trump say about Isis?
He said, We're gonna take him out. We've had a
bunch of pansies and whoosias that haven't had a serious
moment about it, and we're gonna get together with my
military people. We're gonna come up and the plan. We're

(05:29):
gonna wipe them out. It's only because I've got a
bunch of stupid leaders that we haven't wiped them out yet.
So here comes the biggest bomb, non nuclear bomb dropped
in Afghanistan on an ISIS location. Yeah I misspoke. Three
is probably three football fields, three hundreds very close to

(05:50):
three hundred yards. They they primary blast range of this
powerful bomb. Anyway, Folks hanging to be tough, Sit tight,
because we just got warmed up here. The media beside
itself now over the drop. The news story I had
on the bomb from the UK newspaper that quote the

(06:10):
Pentagon is calling it the father of all bombs see
and ends calling it the mother of all bombs. But
the Pentagon referred to it at least in the story
I have as the father of all bombs. Anyway, it
was dropped in a northeastern province of Afghanistan on a

(06:31):
bunch of ISIS tunnels. Ben in Gaithersburg, Maryland, you're next, welcome.
Great to have you high. Thanks for us to answer
your questions from the top of the show. I can
tell you with one accuracy, since I watched over a
hundred Trump rallies, that he never once promised that he
would not use military force. All he said time and

(06:52):
time again was that our military has become run down
and very weak compared to the past, and he was
going to build it back up exactly right. We would
never have to use it. Hopefully we would never have
to use it. He never promised not to use it.
Yes he did. He said we're gonna kick is as
his ass Oh absolutely, yeah. We did say he was

(07:15):
going to bomb the s out of ices is. Apparently
he did that today as well, but he never said
he wasn't going. In fact, showing peace through strength his point.
So tell me something here, dad, that why are all
these people out there saying Trump led? Trump misled these people,
He bottomed serious people. He would never do that, and

(07:36):
now that has become the dominant story in the news
the last two days was that he's changing all his
campaign positions because they desperately need to pivot from the
Trump collusion story that blew up in their face. Uh yeah, okay,
I see that, but they haven't given up on that.
I mean that goes dormant like the United Airline story

(07:58):
covered it a bit. Now dropping this bomb is covered,
but you ought to. I mean the conspiracy theories that
the left comes up with to explain what Trump's doing
to take the collusion story off the front page. These
people are funnel. I mean, they're hilariously insane and getting
better or worse.