Trump smacks McConnell, other GOP leaders at CPAC

Former President Donald Trump returned to the stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday and ripped apart leading members of the Republican Party as he proclaimed that he would prevent World War III.

Trump slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as a “China-loving politician,” had the crowd boo Sen. Mitt Romney, and clashed with Senate Republicans who dared to hint that they would cut Security. Social and Medicare.

“We will never go back to the Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush party,” Trump said from the ballroom stage, shortly after decisively winning the CPAC opinion poll, with 62 percent of conference attendees. respondents saying they wanted him to be the 2024 Republican nominee.

‘In 2016 I declared that I am your voice. Today I add, I am your warrior, I am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution,” she told the enthusiastic crowd.

He also had plenty of negative things to say about the Democrats, including mocking President Joe Biden for falling off his bike and tripping on the stairs of Air Force One, but he told the crowd that the GOP was previously run by ‘monsters.’ and ‘neoconservatives’.

At one point, Trump’s speech was interrupted by a protester who blared the song FDT (F**k Donald Trump).

Trump received the most attention at the three-and-a-half-day conference that returned to suburban Washington after two years in Florida amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Before Trump’s arrival, the crowd was entertained by the former president’s 2020 playlist that included YMCA and Gloria.

And his speech touched on many of the same issues from his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.

Trump hit President Joe Biden hard over illegal immigration.

“Illegal immigrants arrive and we put them up at the Waldorf Astoria. But our soldiers, we didn’t do anything for them,” Trump complained, suggesting that illegal immigrants were watching his speech on TV from their “beautiful hotel suites.”

Trump went on a lengthy riff about the president and his son Hunter.

‘Hunter Biden is a criminal and nothing happened to him,’ said the former president. “Joe Biden is a criminal and nothing ever seems to happen to him.”

Trump, again, stood up to Black Lives Matter and called for the preservation of Confederate monuments, saying ‘the most beautiful works of art, the most beautiful statues were being desecrated.

The 2024 hopeful teased that he was going to outline his agenda for his current presidential campaign.

“At the top of my list will be the slide into endless, costly wars,” he said afterwards, an idea he has long advocated.

Trump bragged that no new war was started during his four years in office.

“I was also the only president where Russia did not take over a country during my tenure,” he boasted. ‘Because I got along very well with Vladimir Putin. I said: “Vladimir, don’t do it, you know that you and I are friends, don’t take control of any country, because, you know, Moscow will be hit very hard.”

On the Ukraine war, Trump complained that NATO was not paying its fair share.

And he hit out at Biden over his withdrawal from Afghanistan, something that was negotiated during Trump’s tenure.

‘No, we left the dogs behind and the Taliban don’t like dogs. But we left in disgrace. And it was the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, probably.

Trump then said that he would prevent World War III.

“Before I even get to the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine resolved, it will be resolved quickly,” he said.

This year’s CPAC speakers spent hours discussing trans people and Trump threw some red meat at the crowd.

‘I will repeal all Biden policies promoting the chemical castration and sexual mutualization of our youth. And ask Congress to send me a bill banning child sexual mutilation in all 50 states,’ he said.

“And it will keep men out of women’s sports,” added the former president.

Trump again said he would support term limits for members of Congress, something he had previously proposed.

And he continued to support elections conducted only with paper ballots, with rare exceptions granted to people who want to vote absentee.

That said, he encouraged Republicans to use all means of voting, after the party lost the White House in 2020 and posted disappointing midterm results in 2022.

‘Republicans must compete using all legal means to win. That means flooding the left with mail-in ballots, early ballots and Election Day votes,” Trump said. ‘We have to change our thinking.’

Trump spoke for nearly an hour and 45 minutes, saving his most groundbreaking speech for last.

On Friday, Trump announced that he wanted to build up to 10 so-called “freedom cities,” complete with flying cars and lots of babies, launching a “quantum leap” agenda as part of his 2024 presidential run.

“We will host a competition to build new free cities on the border to give countless Americans a new chance at homeownership and the American dream,” Trump said.

“We will rename our schools and boulevards not communist but great patriotic Americans,” he continued. “We will get rid of the bad and ugly buildings and return to the magnificent classical style of Western civilization.”

‘We will support baby boomers and we will support baby bonds for a new baby boomer, how does that sound? I want a baby boom,” Trump said, laughing, “you guys are so lucky. You are very lucky, men.

He then promised, if he is re-elected, “our country will shine, grow and prosper like never before.”