Radio's Limbaugh, Hannity Rally With Trump

Rush Limbaugh

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host and Cape Girardeau native Rush Limbaugh introduced President Donald Trump at Monday night's rally at the Show Me Center.

"It's the night of a lifetime. It's electric in here, folks," Limbaugh said.

The Southeast Missourian reports he defended the President, saying Trump did not collude with Russian President Vladimir Putin to "steal the election."

Limbaugh said rallies like the one in Cape Girardeau are the envy of "official Washington."

"When I first started watching the campaign, watched the president and his family come down the escalator, I thought, 'There's no way.' Then I saw the polls and the first one of these (rallies) and I said, 'He's gonna win because he has a connection; no other politician has a connection to voters like this, and Washington can't stand it.'"

Limbaugh also said the bond between rally attendees is enviable.

"People don't take the time to understand why. They just think you're stupid," Limbaugh said, adding that rally attendees aren't angry, but want someone to stand up for and with them.

Then Limbaugh mentioned Trump does not need to put up with the grief a president gets. "Thank God he does because he's indefatigable. Man simply doesn't get tired."

Limbaugh mentioned his Cape Girardeau origin, noting the city was the first place where, at age 16, 50 years ago, he was told he couldn't succeed in radio.

Limbaugh is shown starting at the 35:44 time-mark...Hannity is seen starting at the 54:38 time mark:


Later,  Sean Hannity spoke from the stage of President Donald Trump’s last midterm election rally on Monday, after Fox News Channel and its most popular personality had insisted all day that he wouldn’t.

Hannity appeared on the podium in a Missouri arena after being called to the stage by Trump. Another Fox News host, Jeanine Pirro, also appeared onstage with the president.

“By the way, all those people in the back are fake news,” Hannity told the audience.

The Associated Press reports it was an extraordinary scene after the news network had worked Monday to establish distance between Hannity and the campaign. Trump’s campaign had billed Hannity as a “special guest” at the rally, but Fox had said that wasn’t so. Hannity himself had tweeted: “To be clear, I will not be on stage campaigning with the president. I am covering final rally for the show.”

But Trump called him to the stage after saying, “they’re very special, they’ve done an incredible job for us. They’ve been with us from the beginning.”

Hannity hugged the president when he came onstage and, after echoing Trump’s traditional epithets about the media, recited some economic statistics.

He played the role of cheerleader from the side as the crowd waited for Trump’s appearance. He pleaded with viewers to vote Republican on Tuesday to support Trump, and his opening monologue echoed a campaign slogan seen on signs at the arena: “Promises made, promises kept.”