Citation From the April 14, 2020, edition of Premiere Networks’ The Rush Limbaugh Show

RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): Here’s another little illustration. President Trump wants the company — country open for business. The left has to oppose it automatically. The Democrat Party has to oppose it. The media has to oppose it. Trump wants the country open for business. They have to — it is required — they have to oppose it.

“But, Rush, but Rush! What about these governors working to reopen?” We’ll get to that.

Trump was accused of being too early reacting to the virus — shutting down flights from China — before he was accused of being too late. He was accused of being a xenophobe and a racist, because he reacted in January. And then he was accused of being too late, as they try to rewrite history.

Now he’s being accused of being too early to reopen the economy — before they accuse him of being too late. You watch, whenever this economy is reopened, the media narrative will be, “He waited too long.” Mark my words, whatever he does, they must and will take the opposite tack.

And because of this, by the way, the media is always one step behind, because they are a Trump opposition organization. They’re always going to be a step behind because they are reactive. Trump does X — they have to disagree with it, they have to criticize it. But they’re always step two.

The media told anybody who would listen that Trump would be responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths — if not millions. They scared the hell out of people. Not long after the media’s Category 5 warnings, Trump absolutely flattened the curve. The curve is flattened — more on that, too.

Do you realize we didn’t flatten the curve to save lives? That’s not why we did it. Were you under the impression we flattened the curve to save lives? That’s not why we flattened the curve. We flattened the curve to try to make sure the hospitals were not overloaded. Pure and simple, it wasn’t about saving lives. I don’t mean that as a criticism, I’m just telling you, that’s what the purpose of flattening the curve was.

So, the curve has been flattened now, Trump has flattened the curve. And instead of praising Trump and his team, now the media is preparing for their next knee-jerk prediction — and that is, Trump will kill millions when Americans go back to work.

And he knows this. The first death after reopening, Donald Trump’s going to be blamed for it. We all know it, he knows it. That’s what they’re going to do. Whoever, whoever is the first on record to die after we reopen — you wait, this person’s going to get hero treatment like you can’t believe.

That it was unnecessary. “This person would still be alive were it not for Donald Trump.” And then they will say, “There will be millions more like the first death, because Trump is going to kill many, by sending people back to work too soon.” When that doesn’t transpire, they’re going to blame Trump for not getting people back to work soon enough.

Fortunately, we have a president who’s not afraid to remind the country of media and Democrat predictions — he did that yesterday.