Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh said President Trump signing a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill into law on Friday made him feel like he was witnessing Trump “go back up” the escalator.
“I try to be a guy governed by my thoughts, but I’m not liking the way I’m feeling. I’m feeling like I just saw Donald Trump get on the escalator and go back up,” Limbaugh said on his radio show Friday, referring to the scene where Trump announced his candidacy for president in June 2015 at Trump Tower in New York City.
While Limbaugh said he understood spending was necessary for the Trump administration’s infrastructure aspirations, he said he disliked how congressional Republicans capitulated to the Democrats’ demands because of a “stupid ass government shutdown fear.”
He added that many of the president’s immigration policy agenda items were “stripped away” from the final draft of the bill, warning it may be the “last piece of meaningful legislation” before the 2018 midterm elections.
“In addition to feeling like I just saw Donald Trump go back up the escalator, I’m not feeling like anything that happened today was game changing,” the radio host continued. “This seemed much the same as we have become accustomed to in watching Washington function. And it doesn’t feel right.”
Limbaugh was not the only right-wing commentator to criticize Trump for signing the spending instrument.
Conservative political pundit Ann Coulter skewered Trump in a series of tweets Friday, suggesting the president could face impeachment for not vetoing the proposal.
