Rush Limbaugh tells a story, in which CNN's Nic Robertson has a cognitive dissonance moment:
RUSH: Back we are, and to the audio sound bites we go from Davos. So I have properly and in a very detailed way prepared you for the departure of Trump to Davos the way the Drive-Bys were hoping he would be received as being rejected, hated, despised. And instead Trump is been embraced, is being applauded. People want to cram the room where he speaks and where he is meeting. He’s causing markets to skyrocket. Yet again, the DJI was up over 160 a half hour ago, last time I checked.
CEOs that you would think would hate Trump because they loved Obama cannot get enough of Trump, and the Drive-Bys are beside themselves. Nic Robertson and Richard Quest from CNN are on Trump’s triumph in Davos, and they’re not happy. Because they’re missing what’s going on. You gotta understand, these people hate Trump. The media despised him as much as they’ve despised anybody in recent times. But the funny thing is they just can’t deny what they’re seeing with their own eyes in Davos, which is the exact opposite of what they wanted to see or expected to see. Up first, our old buddy Nic Robertson.
ROBERTSON: (exhasperated) Put yourself in Donald Trump’s shoes, and I was just standing there watching him walk in. All you would have seen is an array of people (stammering) filling — filling the room, w-who were very happy to film you and — and trying to ask you questions and — and — and — and, uhh, stand there while you were shaking hands with people! And then he was waving. Waving! It did feel like a victory lap, and — and shak[ing] hands with people! I asked him what was his message for the people here, for the leaders in Davos? And he said, “Peace and prosperity! Peace and prosperity!” Someone else a-a-after me asked him, “So what…? How do you expect to be received here?” And you know what his answer was? He didn’t say a word! He just said, “Look around you.”
RUSH: Totally unexpected, folks. You can hear the shock, you can hear the awe in the voice of Nic Robertson. (impression) “Very happen to see you! Very happy to ask you questions, to stand there while you’re shaking hands with people. He was waving!” Did you hear that? “He was waving! The guy was waving, for crying out loud! How can they let that happen? He was waving. It felt like a victory lap!” They can’t deal with it.