Politics - News Analysis
Trump’s Speech Off to a Horrible Start, Sweaty, Low-Energy, LYING, ‘Biden is the Most Corrupt President in History!’
As everyone knows, Trump returned today as the grand finale to what has already been an astonishing and shocking CPAC meeting. It is almost like Trump didn’t just lose the election by a fairly substantial amount, while also costing the Republicans all political branches of government. Managing to put two Democratic senators in Arizona and Georgia.
Oh, he also caused the first insurrection against the Capitol in modern American history, at least since the Civil War.
Matt Schlapp began his introduction by saying that the “president of the United States” would be speaking and that the “whole world” was watching. While the weekend appeared to be the coronation of a 2024 run, one poll shook the net and deserves consideration. We call it “the DeSantis factor:”
I'm shocked the number is this low. The entire CPAC weekend has been about promoting the Trump personality cult. https://t.co/1eWZENQPwi
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 28, 2021
Trump was well over an hour late and came out to his typical walk-up music, Macho Man, Gloria, and God Bless USA – for which he stood silently clapping through the entire song, which seemed to go on for ninety minutes. Only to be interrupted by “Do you miss me?” His first words.
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The first noticeable thing – and it leaped off the screen – he was glistening with sweat, embarrassingly sweaty.
He looks terrible
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) February 28, 2021
He was in salesman mode from the very beginning, trying to convince the room that what happened didn’t actually happen. They lost each political branch of government.
"There has never been a journey so successful," Trump says of his presidency to begin his CPAC speech, despite the fact he was defeated and left office last month pic.twitter.com/D7ONVxrLCx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 28, 2021
He still believes that the party is as popular as it has ever been before. No one has seen numbers like his numbers.
One month in he says that no one knew how bad the Biden administration would be. (One month in). Biden is so far left that he’s a socialist and that leads to communism. Trump said that Joe Biden had the most disastrous first month of any president ever, and going so far as to say that Biden is anti-science. We are also “America last.”
Trump accused Biden of having the worst first month of any administration in history, and of being anti-women? and anti-science??
He’s already just rambling.
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) February 28, 2021
The biggest news from the early portion of the speech was that Trump is not starting a new party. We will see about that.
Trump: "I am not starting a new party."
McConnell: "Well, fuck."
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 28, 2021
Biden is letting people in by the tens of thousands, including criminals from the drug cartels, he already mentioned. The wall got built apparently because Trump talked about it being done and how it had done such a great job. He talked about all the immigrants released back into American society and on sanctuary cities:
During Trumps CPAC speech, look for a theme: fear. Fear the Dems, fear other Repubs, fear immigrants fear everything. Fear is weakness… Trump is weak.
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) February 28, 2021
He had NO energy and seemed to be slurring through the words:
Trump sounds like he’s going to fall asleep
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) February 28, 2021
Seems kinda low energy here.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 28, 2021
He lied about the election, the big lie, saying he might need to beat the Democrats a third time. He will never let that go.
Trump: "Actually they just lost the White House," as he repeats yet again that Joe Biden did not win the 2020 election.
Good going #SeditionCaucus
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 28, 2021
And he’s lying about the election
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) February 28, 2021
Ten minutes later he was still talking about immigration.
SIR STORY: Not 15 minutes in. “I asked how much money do we pay these counties,” and “SIR, we pay …”
"Sir" story.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 28, 2021
He was just so low energy it was almost uncomfortable. Everyone noticed, he almost whispered that no country respected us, “they couldn’t believe it” speaking of what countries were getting away with:
This is…sadder and lower energy than I expected it to be.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 28, 2021
He kept repeating phrases, “We must stand tall,” “We must be strong,” “Biden didn’t talk about this,” “The press refused to ask questions,” and then went into blaming the media for his “loss” because the media wouldn’t ask the right questions. Trump said that Biden is using “anti-science” in keeping kids out of school, and there’s no reason for kids to be back in school.
Booing Chris Wallace. Because Chris Wallace is the problem here.
This isn't a speech, it's pieces of a speech with little Crazy Nuggets in it.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 28, 2021
He has spent almost as much time on kids being out of school as he did on immigration. Perhaps had he paid attention to COVID and helped suppress it, COVID wouldn’t be the problem that it remains today.
He took credit for the “modern-day miracle” – the vaccines were all due to him, and then he asked if we could imagine if we were going through what other countries were going through, waiting for vaccines. It is probably important to note that the United Kingdown was two weeks ahead of us. He literally credited himself for all the vaccine production, and yet had no plan at all to distribute it.
He's bragging about the vaccines. A year ago, the pandemic was going to be gone by June.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 28, 2021
Trump taking credit for the vaccines but not the 500,000 dead.
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) February 28, 2021
Now he is boasting about his leadership on Covid.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) February 28, 2021
Yet again, it was very apparent that he was not looking well, his voice got horse again, while still sweating.
Reminder that Trump lost the election.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) February 28, 2021
This was a given:
The former president is lying a lot.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 28, 2021
And then Trump proved that there is no God because he accused Biden of being the most corrupt president ever. This is the man who … golf, hotel, golf, Putin, wanting the G7 at Doral …
Trump, without a shred of irony, claims Biden is the most corrupt president in history (Trump owned and profited from a private business while in office, and benefitted from lavish Secret Service expenses at his properties) pic.twitter.com/rm0UNxME4M
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 28, 2021
We couldn’t take any more of the first string and wrapped the first quarter up here. We dreaded that this was going to be one long long long speech.
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Peace, y’all
Jason
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