"It's literally fascinating to me," Rush Limbaugh said of Donald Trump getting, "people that literally hate him to help him out." Limbaugh hails Trump's media bashing

To hear Rush Limbaugh tell it Tuesday, Donald Trump's 40-minute tirade against the mainstream media as he accounted for the nearly $6 million raised for veterans was a gully washer after years of parched Republican distaste with the Fourth Estate.

"Well, that's what you've all wanted. That's what everybody's been asking for I don't know how long," Limbaugh began in a segment of his show, according to the transcript. "That was a press conference. That was a press conference. That was the kind of press conference Republicans voters have been dying to see for who knows how many years."


Regardless of one's feelings about Trump, the radio host remarked, "how many years have people been begging for a Republican to just once take on the media the way Trump did?"

"All the way from the premise, to the details, to the motivation," Limbaugh mused. "He took 'em all on, and the piece de resistance," Limbaugh said, came when a journalist asked if the contentious news conference in Trump Tower was a sign of things to come from the White House.

The press, the presumptive Republican said Tuesday from his building, "should be ashamed at themselves, and on behalf of the vets the press should be ashamed of themselves. They are calling me and they are furious,” Trump said.

“Instead of being like, ‘Thank you very much, Mr. Trump,’ or ‘Trump did a good job,’ everyone said: ‘Who got it? Who got it? Who got it?’” Trump said. “And you make me look very bad. I have never received such bad publicity for doing a good job.”

Trump then called out ABC News reporter Tom Llamas as a "sleaze."

It is "fascinating," Limbaugh said, that "Trump is succeeding in getting a bunch of people that literally hate him to help him out" and propagate his message.

"Folks, it's a fascinating case study in politics and sociology, psychology, pop culturism, post whatever modernism, it's an amazing thing, and I'm gonna do my best to explain it because it's fascinating to me," he explained. "It's literally fascinating to me."

Longtime media and political operatives, who for decades tended to stick to a similar technique in crafting and shaping stories of the day, are suddenly incapable of setting the narrative, Limbaugh said.

"They are unable to write the daily soap opera script as they have become accustomed to being able to do," he remarked. "They're unable to do it because Trump is so unpredictable. They'll write a script, they'll write a narrative for the day and Trump will go out and do an appearance and blow it to smithereens, at the same time blowing their plans."