Kari Lake, Don Jr, Matt Gaetz and Nigel Farage sing happy birthday to Kimberly Guilfoyle

It was the sort of occasion to strike fear and loathing into the hearts of any liberals who had wandered into the Washington D.C. restaurant.

Seated around the table on Thursday evening for Kimberly Guilfoyle’s birthday dinner was what Don Jr. described as a ‘MAGA wrecking crew’ made up of Kari Lake, the movement’s rising star, Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Republican firebrand, and Nigel Farage from Britain, whose 2016 Brexit victory presaged the arrival of Donald Trump on the world stage.

Video obtained by DailyMail.com shows how the group was in a boisterous mood after the first day of the annual gathering of Trump-aligned Republicans at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference held just outside the city.

And Don Jr and his fiancée were also both celebrating the launch of recent shows on the streaming service Rumble.

When dessert arrived for Guilfoyle with a candle they broke into ‘Happy Birthday.’

‘This is a problem for the left. They do not like this CPAC crowd,’ said Donald Trump’s son Don Jr, after the chorus of Happy Birthday on Thursday night

‘Thank you baby,’ said Guilfoyle, whose birthday is next week, after a round of applause.

‘We got a pretty good MAGA wrecking crew right here,’ said Don Jr, as his phone camera pans around the table filled with figures who are among the most popular figures in the MAGA universe – and some of the most hated in the liberal universe.

‘This is a problem for the left. They do not like this CPAC crowd.’

Partners, producers and publicists made up the table of about 20 at the Monocle steak and seafood restaurant in Washington D.C.

In his CPAC speech a day later, Don Jr way coy about revealing the location. And described how he had used the Public Square app to find a restaurant where MAGA world luminaries would be welcome. 

‘I won’t mention the restaurant because they’ll probably get cancelled if I do but it was sort of nice for me,’ he said.

‘We walk in we’re with Kerry Lake and we’re with Matt Gaetz and Nigel Farage like it was a pretty conservative crew that would have had a hard time probably eating in DC without getting yelled at.’

‘Now I do well with that. it’s fine. 

‘But sometimes you want to just avoid it. 

‘And so we were able to find that we have an obligation to get out there and support those kinds of businesses.’

Around the table were Kari Lake, who continues to fight her election defeat in Arizona, and Nigel Farage, whose success in the 2016 Brexit referendum heralded a new populist era

Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida has been one of Trump’s staunchest defenders in Congress

Donald Trump dominated the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, Maryland, even before he was due to speak on Saturday

Trump is still the most lucrative figure for vendors. Only a handful of DeSantis hats were on display among the dozens and dozens of Trump-branded headgear

Public Square markets itself as a way to avoid ‘supporting companies with a woke agenda.’ 

‘Join thousands of freedom-loving Americans in shopping quality products, services, and exclusive discounts from values-aligned businesses,’ says its website. 

Farage was among the speakers on Friday. He said Thursday’s dinner was less about world domination than about a birthday party.

‘I would say last night was more about fun,’ he told DailyMail.com the next day. By that time of the day, it was about doing things the Farage way … particularly after the the day I’d had.’

His flight from London to Washington was canceled. So he had flown into New York where he hurriedly presented his daily show for the GB News TV channel, before completing his journey to Washington.

He said he attended his first CPAC event in 2012, when he was the only non-American speaker, and had watched it grow into an international populist giant. 

Donald Trump Jr. was another crowd favorite delivering a speech to attendees

Trump loyalist Rep. Matt Gaetz was among the speakers on Friday morning (seen here with Don Jr), a day before Trump is due to close the conference with a speech on Saturday evening

‘CPAC has become the epicentre for the Western world’s conservative movement,’ he said.

‘I feel very at home here. I am a foreigner but they treat me as one of their own.’ 

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, is among the speakers on Saturday. 

And the event closes with a speech by Trump himself. 

He has enjoyed a bump in recent polls after DeSantis looked to be eating into his frontrunner status, without even running yet.

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll published on Tuesday gave Trump an eight-point lead over the Florida governor. DeSantis had been leading Trump in that poll for the past three months.