Trump Delivers SCORCHING CPAC Address Mocking Dems, Liberal Media, ‘Nutjob’ Maher
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Curtis Houck is the Managing Editor of NewsBusters for the Media Research Center
Despite having just addressed reporters and the nation on the coronavirus, President Donald Trump arrived Saturday in National Harbor, Maryland for his CPAC with his fastball. In an 84-minute speech, he reminded attendees, journalists, and viewers that CPAC shifted in the last four years from a gathering of thousands representing differing (and sometimes waring) factions on the right to thousands pulling in the same direction for Team Trump.
With a packed crowd hanging on his every word, the President delivered not only a comedy routine for the ages against his 2020 opponents but also brutal takedowns against a potpourri of opponents, including the liberal media. And most notably, he made sure to again embrace the American flag.
For purposes here, we’ll recap the references to the Trump-hating liberal media, which have been working to convince the public that the President views the coronavirus as “a hoax” when he used that term Friday to condemn the liberal spin about his response to the virus.
At one point, Trump remarked how he lost the 2019 Time person of the year to far-left climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg but was okay with it because he had already “won it enough” because “the whole world revolves around” him as President.
Trump added that it’s become so bad that when you turn on cable news networks like “stupid CNN…every story is Trump or Trump-related.” While exaggerated, he quipped that “if a plane goes down with 700 people on it, they don’t even cover it anymore” to illustrate the media’s obsession with him to the detriment of countless non-Trump stories.
He then correctly stated that his political career has made The New York Times into “a vibrant paper” but will wilt when he leaves office. And when wondering about how long that will be, he torched HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher as “crazy” and “a total nutjob” or thinking he’ll never leave the presidency (click “expand”):
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