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Trump marks fifth anniversary of conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh’s death

February 18, 2026 | | Print Article

President Donald Trump took time on Tuesday to mark the fifth anniversary of Rush Limbaugh’s passing.

The minute-long video posted to Truth Social honors the man who forever changed conservative talk radio, giving Republican ideals a platform when most of the modern news outlets were taking an obvious leftist bias.

Watch:

“Well, this is the fifth anniversary of the loss of a really great man, a great conservative, somebody that loved our country, loved his family, loved a lot of things, but he was a friend of mine, Rush Limbaugh,” the president said. “I’d never met Rush when I announced that I was running. I’ll never forget, 2015, I got a call, all excited that Rush Limbaugh just endorsed you. I’d never met him. He liked my opening speech.”

“He liked when I got up in June, and I said, ‘You know, well, we got bad borders, we got bad crime, we got bad everything.’ And he liked it. I came down the escalator with now our first lady, and he thought it was great,” Trump continued. “And he endorsed me, and then I got to know him, and I realized what a great guy he was. But it’s five years, and we miss Rush. As Sean Hannity would often say, there will never be another Rush Limbaugh. So to his family, his great wife and family, I just want to say we miss you all, we miss him, and there’ll never be anybody like him. Thank you very much.”

X users also gathered on the platform to honor Rush’s memory:

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