The climax to CPAC this year was President Trump’s speech. He did not disappoint. To raucous laughter and applause, he enumerated the administration’s list of accomplishments interspersed with hilarious, irreverent comments directed at Joe Biden, the Democrats, the deep state, and so forth.
His accomplishments in the first 30 days of his administration are unprecedented. Among my favorites were dumping the Paris climate accords, ending the “Green new scam,” as he called it, which he correctly identified as “one of the greatest hoaxes ever played on this country”; and cancelling the Biden electric vehicle mandate. He reeled off numerous examples of wasteful spending that Elon Musk’s DOGE has already identified, with one of the most ridiculous being, “40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody knows where… Who are they? Where do they come from? Just sedentary migrants. Nobody even knows what a sedentary migrant is! If they were sedentary, they wouldn’t be a migrant right?” My favorite however, was his pledge to “take back the Panama Canal.”
Trump mentioned foreign leaders in attendance, including presidents Javier Milei of Argentina and Andrezj Duda of Poland, Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico, Nigel Farage, head of the UK Reform Party, Spanish Vox party president Santiago Abascal, and former Brazilian president Eduardo Bolsonaro.
The president also listed some impressive numbers from the election. In addition to winning all the swing states, he won 85 percent of U.S. counties, 2,600 to the Democrats’ 525. He said “it’s the biggest margin ever recorded and incredibly, for the first time ever, all 50 states shifted toward the Republican party, it’s never happened, so [the election] was indeed too big to rig.”
In one of the funnier moments of the speech Trump took an impromptu voice poll of the audience. “You know we lost over a trillion dollars to China this last year under the Biden, crooked Joe Biden. What do we like better — crooked Joe or sleepy Joe? Ready? Ready?” Trump shouted, “Crooked Joe!” Crowd cheered loudly. “Sleepy Joe!” The audience was less enthusiastic. Trump concluded “Got to stay with crooked.”
Trump went on to compare the late former president Jimmy Carter with Biden. Carter has long been considered the worst president in history, but President Trump observed, “Jimmy Carter passed away recently and he passed away a happy man. He was a happy man when he passed cuz he said that it’s not even close. Joe was the worst. And believe me I have to clean up the mess. I’m cleaning up the mess, and it is a mess on the border, with inflation… Everything he touched turned to shit, okay? Everything. It’s true! It’s true!… But now Franklin Graham is angry at me.”
his speech saying, “Look, let me start out by saying that if I offend anybody today, I don’t give a shit!” (Cheers and laughter).
After speaking for about 15 minutes on what they were doing and intending to do to seal the border, arrest illegal aliens and send them packing, Homan concluded, saying, “The greatest president in my lifetime is back in the Oval Office. He’s gonna make America great again, he’s gonna make America healthy again, He’s gonna make America safe again. You got it! President Trump, God bless you, I’m proud to be back, and I’m not leaving ‘till we fix this shit!
Toward the end of his speech, the president pointed out My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, who was viciously attacked following his claims that the 2020 election was stolen. “That man suffered… that man suffered. The FBI thugs went up to him and they took away everything he had. He suffered and Mrs. Lindell… It was just terrible. This was a vicious weaponization of your government but… I’ll tell you he… stood up. He stood up strong and nothing was going to faze him. And I want to thank you on behalf of everybody. Mike, you put up with a tremendous amount and he never changed his mind he said that election of 2020 was rigged and he’s more of a believer today than he was even, even four years ago but now it’s okay to say it… when it comes to a day where you can’t challenge crooked elections, we’ve got a real problem in this country.”
The President concluded his remarks saying that “As of January 20th 2025 the dark days of high taxes, crushing regulations, rampant inflation, flagrant corruption, government weaponization, and total incompetence, those days are over! They’re over. But we cannot stop now. We’re going to push forward every single day. In the immortal words of that great American hero, Captain John Paul Jones, ‘I have not yet begun to fight.’ And neither have you!”
Crowd cheers and begins to shout “fight! Fight! Fight!”
“So together for the next four years we are going to stand strong; we are going to work hard! We are going to fight, fight, fight, and win, win, win!”
After thanking CPAC, the audience and repeatedly saying God Bless America, Trump began dancing as the song “YMCA” played. A couple of attendees in the media area followed suit. It caught the spirit of the event right there.
James Simpson is an economist, businessman, investigative journalist and author. His latest book is Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America. Follow Jim on X & Facebook.
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