Trump Attacks Robert Mueller, Democrats, Green New Deal in Rambling CPAC Speech
Four years ago this month, Donald Trump tweeted about evolving circus norms. “Ringling Brothers is phasing out their elephants. I, for one, will never go again. They probably used the animal rights stuff to reduce costs.” Just over three months later, Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United States. Eighteen months later, he won. On Saturday morning at CPAC, President Trump took to the stage more than 40 minutes late, giving an American flag a hug before beginning his remarks. Trump delivered an address that was meandering and largely off-script, attacking his enemies and revisiting many of his greatest hits, bragging about his election victory and inauguration crowd size. Trump spoke to a capacity crowd for the third year in a row, many of whom had risen before dawn to snake through byzantine Secret Service lines. Outside the Gaylord National Resort, looming in the distance all week: a big blue circus tent.
Trump’s appearance on the final day of the country’s “conservative Super Bowl” comes at the end of a week in which he failed to broker a peace deal with North Korea and was implicated in multiple crimes by his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen.
Trump’s entire speech was meandering and mostly ad-libbed. He talked about how his friends address him now that he is president, another friend of his who he called a “stone cold killer,” and how Never-Trumpers are now on “mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.” The president also went on an extended rant about immigration and restated lies about late-term abortions, claiming people “execute the baby after birth,” which is categorically untrue.
Speaking to the true believers before him, the president did not seem fazed as he predicted his own reelection in 2020 and reveled in his 2016 victory, saying, “I think we’re doing really well, and it’s driving the other side crazy… I think we’re gonna do even better in 2020, I think we’re gonna do numbers we haven’t seen in a long time.”
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Elephants leave a ton of shit. So does Trump.