‘My ultimate and absolute revenge’: Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agenda
Unbound and unhinged, ex-president vilifies immigrants before devolving into bizarre riffs, including calling himself ‘total genius’
David Smith in Oxon Hill, Maryland
Sun 25 Feb 2024 01.54 CET
Donald Trump styled himself as a “proud political dissident” and promised “judgment day” for political opponents in an address that offered a chilling vision of a democracy in imminent peril.
In classic carnival barker form, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination accused Joe Biden of weaponising the government against him with “Stalinist show trials”. He pledged to crack down on border security and deliver the biggest deportation in US history if he wins the 5 November election.
“For hard-working Americans, November 5th will be our new liberation day,” Trump told a packed ballroom at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor in Maryland. “But for the liars and cheaters and fraudsters and censors and imposters who have commandeered our government, it will be their judgment day!”
He added: “Your victory will be our ultimate vindication, your liberty will be our ultimate reward and the unprecedented success of the United States of America will be my ultimate and absolute revenge.”
The overwhelmingly white crowd, many wearing Make America Great Again regalia, rose to their feet and roared their approval.
The former US president was speaking hours before an expected victory over Republican rival Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary, making him all but certain to be the party nominee.
Meanwhile, organizers held a straw poll at the convention for Trump’s running mate: South Dakota governor Kristi Noem tied with tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy at 15%, followed by former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, current New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik and South Carolina senator Tim Scott. In last place was Nikki Haley at 2%. About 1,500 people voted.
Trump’s visit marked his 14th appearance at CPAC, breaking the record previously held by former president Ronald Reagan, according to his campaign. He appeared unbound and at times unhinged. The 77-year-old was bilious and bleak but also energetic and at times even humorous, less commander-in-chief than stand-up comedian. He told self-deprecating jokes about his wife Melania’s reviews of his speeches (“I ask our first lady, I say. So, baby, how good was that? She goes you were OK”).
His puerile parody of the speaking style, finger pointing and gait of 81-year-old Biden earned roars of laughter. And in a nod to his days as host of the reality TV show the Apprentice, Trump delighted the audience by shouting: “Crooked Joe Biden, you are fired! Get out of here. You’re destroying our country. You’re fired. Get the hell out of here!”
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(Quickly ducks) I have been told that Trump is funny. Or that he has an engaging personality. (hides behind chair)
What the fuck is wrong with people?
What the fuck is wrong with people?
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Honestly, I dunno. But I am certain there will many doctorate level books written on this phenom. (assuming we still have books)Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:11 pm (Quickly ducks) I have been told that Trump is funny. Or that he has an engaging personality. (hides behind chair)
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"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
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Thanks for posting that, just enough to get the cray-cray that went on, but not the never ending video and monologue from others.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 13df&ei=53
Am I following correctly? Did they have Jeff (oil spill) Clark there?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... raziness/a
Am I following correctly? Did they have Jeff (oil spill) Clark there?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... raziness/a
Video at the link.Former Obama adviser David Axelrod said if there were a way to show every American the worst excesses of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, President Joe Biden and some other Democrats wouldn’t have to sweat as much about November’s elections.
This year’s installment of the gathering has brought forth a Jan. 6-themed pinball machine, “woke tears” bottled water, dresses peppered with images of Donald Trump, and other MAGA kitsch.r-BB1iNuap?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=76b09b5b6e54423bb24ff33d0ba713df&ei=53
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Yes, Clark was there. I saw him opining about what job he will hold in tfg’s admin, should evil prevail.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/ ... 2abe&ei=27
The organizers behind the Conservative Political Action Conference denied an NBC News story about neo-Nazis openly mingling at the annual confab, branding the report “false” and “fake news” while touting the group’s pro-Israel stance.
However, following the right-wing organization’s repeated denials, NBC News reporter Ben Goggin posted video and photographic evidence of prominent white supremacists attending last week’s event—including one openly giving a Nazi salute. CPAC did not respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics ... index.html
Right now on CNN, they're reporting that they were denied access to the conference, something about no-woke zone or similar.At a conference center plastered with slogans like “Let’s drain the swamp,” Republican after Republican endorsed harsh immigration policies, crackdowns on LGBTQ rights, and a battle against “woke ideology.”
The scene could have been any recent GOP event – except it was taking place roughly 4,000 miles away from the US at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s third annual gathering in Hungary.
The visiting GOP dignitaries’ praise for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his authoritarian government showed how the small central European country has become an unlikely model for a potential Trump second term – despite what international observers have described as an alarming backsliding of democratic rights.
The American right’s growing embrace of Orbán builds upon millions of dollars that his government has spent on lobbying in the US, and new connections between Hungarian and American conservative think tanks.