Tuesday marked five years since the man who had talent on loan from God went back to meet his Maker.

On Feb. 17, 2021, the voice of Rush Limbaugh was silenced forever upon this earth at the age of 70. Limbaugh, who had been battling cancer for a year, had told his listeners months before that the disease was likely terminal. Two weeks earlier, he’d made his final broadcast.

Many voices have, of course, tried to fill the vacuum left by Limbaugh. It would take many voices to fill the void left by the very singularEl Rushbo, a man whose radio program was like a cannon shot across the bow of American popular political culture when it went national in 1988. Reagan handed the torch of conservatism to him, and boy, did he run with it.

He was still firing cannon shots until the very end — and five years later, much of what he said about the issues in February 2021 (COVID, cultural elites, Joe Biden, Donald Trump) would be vindicated a half-decade after his passing.

And, in honor of Rush, the man whose three presidential candidacies arguably couldn’t have been popular without his anti-elite populism — Trump himself — paid tribute to Limbaugh onTruth Social.

“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,” Trump said in the video.

“I’d never met Rush when I announced that I was running. I’ll never forget, 2015, and I got a call, we’re all excited that Rush Limbaugh just endorsed you. I’d never met him,” he continued. “He liked my opening speech. He liked when I got up in June and I said, ‘You know, we got bad borders, we got bad crime, we got bad everything.’ And he liked it.

“I came down the escalator with … our first lady. And he thought it was great. 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 that 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,” he concluded.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just posted a BEAUTIFUL tribute to Rush Limbaugh on the 5-year anniversary of his passing

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