Trump Honors El Rushbo in Powerful Video 5 Years After His Passing – RedState
I can’t tell you where I would be if I had never heard Rush Limbaugh on the radio, but I can tell you where I wouldn’t be: here, on the pages of RedState.
I grew up in liberal towns, in a liberal family with liberal friends, but I always knew I was a black sheep. I wasn’t gay or anything – I was conservative. I was told that Ronald Reagan was the devil incarnate, but my eyes and ears told me something different.
And there I was, somewhere in the 1990s, on a highway in southern California, and this guy, this El Rushbo, came along. Oh, I should listen to that, I thought; people said he was racist and fascist and hateful of all good things, and I should see what all the hubbub is about.
Of course, he was none of those things. No, he was an exceptional thinker with a divine talent for communicating his thoughts to the masses and inspiring many of them to do something they didn’t always do: think.
From that day on, I listened to it as often as possible.
Five years ago Tuesday, he died at the too-young age of 70 from advanced lung cancer.
One man who remembers the “Maha Rushie” is President Donald Trump, who delivered a moving speech Tuesday evening to his family and his memory.
Watch:
President Trump delivers a moving tribute to Rush Limbaugh on the 5th anniversary of Rush’s death.
“There will never be another Rush Limbaugh” “We miss him” ❤️🙏 pic.twitter.com/fc4kdPMnfh
– Comment posted by Donald J. Trump on Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) February 18, 2026
The incredibly prescient Rush realized sooner than many that the billionaire real estate mogul was a game-changer and might just be the man we needed to stop the decline of American excellence:
Well, it’s the 5th anniversary of the loss of a very great man, a great conservative, someone who loved our country, loved his family, loved many things…
It was a friend of mine, Rush Limbaugh. I had never met Rush when I announced my candidacy. I’ll never forget 2015. And I got a call, we’re all so excited that Rush Limbaugh just endorsed you. I never met him. He liked my opening speech. He liked it when I stood up in June and told him, you know, we have bad borders, we have bad crime, we have everything wrong. And he liked it.
I went down the escalator with our First Lady, and he thought it was great, and he supported me, and then I got to know him, and I realized what a great guy he was. But we’ve missed Rush for five years, as Sean Hannity often said: “There will never be another Rush Limbaugh.”
So to his family and his amazing wife and family, I just want to say we miss you all. We miss him and there will never be anyone like him. Thank you so much.
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It was an extremely poignant moment when, in 2020, Trump invited the seriously ill “king of talk radio” to his State of the Union address – where he surprised him by presenting him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Millions of observers have become verklempt:
Four years ago today, the legendary Rush Limbaugh went to be with the Lord.
Here’s a flashback to 2020, when President Trump surprised him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the State of the Union.
Rest in peace, Rush. pic.twitter.com/DcCD1ujCFp
– Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 17, 2025
Rush’s official website also published a tribute to the “Doctor of Democracy” on Tuesday:
Rush lives in all of our hearts. Thank you, Rush, for being our constant source of wisdom and laughter for so many years.
– The Limbaugh family pic.twitter.com/jPw6WTuobQ
– Official Rush Limbaugh (@OfficialRushUSA) February 17, 2026
You were one of a kind and we miss you. RIP, Mr. Limbaugh.
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