Trump recalled how he’d first spoken at CPAC 14 years earlier, when after spending his life as a prominent Democratic donor he began courting celebrity in Republican political circles by spreading a racist lie about the citizenship of then-president Barack Obama, the first and thus far only non-white person to serve as President of the United States.
Among the international figures he name-checked were Argentinian president Javier Milei, Spanish Vox party leader Santiago Abascal, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Polish President Andrzej Duda, the latter of whom Trump sat down with for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the conference.
President Donald Trump on Saturday described the chaotic first month of his new administration as nothing short of liberating the United States from the tyranny of a Democratic-led government that had pushed too far to empower minorities and encourage immigration as he spoke to an adoring crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Speaking at the end of the fourth and final day of the annual event in Maryland, Trump bragged about the narrow election victory in last year’s election, which he called “too big to rig” and said his win over Vice President Kamala Harris had “achieved the great liberation of America.”.
His remarks, delivered just one month and two days after he was sworn in for the first non-consecutive served by an American president in more than a century, were largely self-congratulatory and denigrating of his predecessor, Joe Biden, of whom he unfavorably compared to the late 39th president Jimmy Carter, who died last year at age 100.
