He thrilled the audience at CPAC.
TV clips on MSNBC show him damning the media as corrupt liars, and daming the Democrats for not really caring about the Dreamers, transferring blame for their danger from himself to them, among many other things.
I cannot stand this vicious nincompoop, this pathological liar, or the people who love him.
I hope they never "get their America back", they never get their way, they choke on their anger and frustration.
As it said on the back window of that pickup, "Fuck Trump! And fuck you if you voted for him!"
The Duce at CPAC
President Trump told a raucous crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that if Democrats take power in Congress in the midterm elections, they “will take away your Second Amendment.”
“Remember that they will take away those massive tax cuts and they will take away your Second Amendment,” Trump said told the staunch conservatives.
They might pass taxes to attempt to deal with the huge deficit bang Bozo and his congress have dropped on them.
Taxes he would veto or that might not get through the senate, anyway.
But that Democrats are in any numbers committed to repeal of the 2nd Amendment if false.
Most would likely vote to restore the ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines and tighten up background checks.
But Trump would just veto those measures, too, if the senate didn't kill them with a filibuster.
Most would likely vote to raise the age for purchase of firearms, at least of some types, and ban aftermarket modifications to raise the rate of fire of semi-automatic rifles.
Trump and many leading GOPsters are on record supporting such things, so they might actually get through.
I think it likely the hard right loonies of the House won't let them pass in the current congress, despite the fact that Trump and even the NRA seem OK with them.
He added: “By the way, if you only had to choose one, the Second Amendment, tax cuts?”
The audience cheered louder for the Second Amendment — just days after the deadly shooting at a Florida school where 17 people were gunned down.
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“Don’t be complacent. Don’t be complacent. If they get in, they will repeal your tax cuts, they will put judges in that you wouldn’t believe, they’ll take away your Second Amendment, which we will never allow to happen, they’ll take away your Second Amendment.”
In his freewheeling address, Trump asked if the audience wouldn’t “mind if I go off script a bit because it’s sort of boring” and was met with more cheers.
He further stoked the crowd by bringing up Hillary Clinton as he touted his work in his first year in office.
“Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!” they chanted, echoing similar refrains from the 2016 campaign trail.
One man in the crowd yelled: “You said you would!”
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He then returned to his signature pledge to erect a “great wall” along the border with Mexico — eliciting chants of “Build that wall! Build that wall!”
The report does not say he repeated his promise that Mexico would pay for it.
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Trump also veered into religion, saying the US is a nation that worships God as he remembered the late Rev. Billy Graham.
“Our nation’s motto is ‘In God We Trust.’ This week, our nation lost an incredible leader who devoted his life to helping us understand what those words really mean. He was a leader, a great man,” Trump said.
1956.
Yes, that was when the going was good for the Christian right, the high point of Cold War Christian clericalism in America.
I suppose we should be glad he didn't return to urging police brutality, the torture of terrorists, or the murder of their families.
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