Trump commends Meadows & other Republicans for attacking Mueller
"They fight so hard on this witch hunt, this phony deal... there's no collusion, so now it morphs into, 'let's inspect every deal he's ever done'... these people are sick"
Calls @RepAdamSchiff "shifty Schiff"pic.twitter.com/P7nWbDaHdA
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TRUMP: "We have people in Congress right now that hate our country... When I see some of the statements being made, it's very very sad. And find out -- how did they do in their country? Did they do well?... Some will say it's terrible he brought that up, but I don't mind."
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TRUMP: "We have a gentleman that likes raising interest rates in the Fed. We have a gentleman that loves quantitative tightening in the Fed. We have a gentleman that likes a strong dollar in the Fed." (The crowd doesn't know how to react to this and sits silently.)pic.twitter.com/KbwzqCjMPV
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Trump suggests environmental Democrats are supporting "trains to Hawaii"
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Trump on climate change: "You have to clean it up. It's called [forest] management. When a tree falls, you cannot let the environmentalists say you cannot take that tree out. It becomes a matchstick... the leaves, every once in a while, you have to remove the leaves"pic.twitter.com/Y53XzPe36Y
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TRUMP:"Everyone in this country, right now, because of our new economy is doing well, except for the Never Trumpers. But they are on mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Mouth-to-mouth. Mouth-to-mouth."pic.twitter.com/Razvg9pwxX
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TRUMP: "Probably today or tomorrow we will actually have 100% of the caliphate in Syria."pic.twitter.com/A4iBGdK2xR
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Trump goes on a long and bizarre rant about his trip to Iraqpic.twitter.com/H9JRbmlYQL
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TRUMP: "I'm in the White House and I was lonely. I said, 'let's go to Iraq!'" Within 30 seconds Trump pivots to ranting about how Hollywood discriminates against conservativespic.twitter.com/tmhMu5E4qx
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Trump on the Green New Deal: "They want you to have one car instead of two. And it should be electric."
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Trump on
@maziehirono: "The crazy female senator from the state of Ohio... the state of Hawaii, right? She's like a crazed person. What she said about men is so bad. But she's standing in the hallway & she didn't know too much about the plan, b/c she can't understand that plan."pic.twitter.com/VcFdcr7xtDShow this thread -
TRUMP on
@SenWarren : "I should have saved the 'Pocahontas' thing for another year. Because I've destroyed her political career and now I won't get a chance to run against her and I would've loved it."pic.twitter.com/U3RsDmwjGIShow this thread -
Trump shouts out Candace Owens & Charlie Kirk. "We reject oppressive speech codes, censorship, political correctness, and every other attempt by the hard left to stop people from challenging ridiculous and dangerous ideas... instead we believe in free speech, including online."pic.twitter.com/yMtp0XhKx1
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Trump calls Hayden Williams on stage. Williams was punched on UC Berkeley campus. Trump encourages him to "sue the college, the university. And maybe sue the state."pic.twitter.com/mQqBQmnQgs
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TRUMP: "Today I'm proud to announce that I will be soon signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal dollars."pic.twitter.com/xDF5KLcrSu
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We're now in the blood libel portion of the speech -- Trump says the belief that undocumented immigrants "are better than the people we have" is "nonsense" and "false propaganda." "Just ask the Angel Moms how good are they," he says.pic.twitter.com/wD7Wlczyf8
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TRUMP: "1 in 3 women is sexually assaulted in the dangerous journey north. When I ran for president, my first speech, I mentioned the word 'rape'... if you look at that speech, that was so innocent compared to what's actually happening."pic.twitter.com/f0a35CVZS5
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TRUMP: "Mothers who love their daughters give them massive amounts of birth control pills, because they know their daughters are going to be raped on the way up to our southern border. Think of that. True story told to me by the Border Patrol. Think of how evil that is."pic.twitter.com/wVrBHpEbWc
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Trump on his national emergency declaration: "A lot of people are concerned about setting precedent. 'The Democrats will use national emergencies, which is something we don't want.' They are going to do that anyway. The best way to stop that is to make sure I win the election."pic.twitter.com/wZiA3SkRDp
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TRUMP: "They used to call it anchor babies but they don't use that term anymore because it's not nice. Our laws are so crazy. But 1 by 1, we are finding ways. They call them loopholes... I'm finding loopholes to get around the loopholes. Because our Congress can't act."pic.twitter.com/ZCjiYv9AdW
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Trump smears Democrats: "They are embracing open borders, socialism, & extreme late-term abortion...lawmakers in NY cheered as they passed legislation to allow babies to be ripped from the womb of their mothers. Right up to the very moment of death... the will execute the baby."pic.twitter.com/He2coKazul
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TRUMP: "The ones that love Trump, the ones that are really the Trumpers -- like Meadows, Jordan, Gaetz, so many of them -- they are the ones that win. It's the ones that are a little shy about embracing what we're all about, they get clobbered. Take a look."pic.twitter.com/j37QKeYn4Q
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Trump takes credit for Republicans gaining 2 seats in Senate last November, but says about the House "not all of our candidates were exactly great." (Republicans lost 40 seats in the House)pic.twitter.com/AL7ibqjzfs
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Trump on Stacey Abrams: "Who showed up? Oprah Winfrey. Michelle Obama. And President Obama. And they campaigned for her and they worked so hard and all our man had was Trump. And we kicked their ass."pic.twitter.com/pe2VoDfWxp
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Trump's speech has now surpassed 2 hours. This is getting lengthy even by Castro's standards.pic.twitter.com/6loTEKuKAm
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Trump on Otto Warmbier: "I'm in such a horrible position, b/c in one way I have to negotiate, in the other way, I love Mr and Mrs Warmbier and I love Otto... I lot of what I do with respect to NK & and success that we hopefully have, we are given no credit."pic.twitter.com/P4sJTQWJzE
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TRUMP: "We need your incredible spirit on the 4th of July. We are having, in Washington DC, a great tribute to America. I hope you can all come. The 4th of July, keep it open. We want to bring millions of people into the city & we want people to come who love our country."pic.twitter.com/Yf5yO59OlE
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After more than 2 hours, Trump is finally done talking. His 2019 CPAC address was unhinged even by his standards.pic.twitter.com/5vyKLcxzFx
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Trump now claims it was just a "joke" when he asked Russian hackers to attack Hillary Clinton. Watch the footage side-by-side and judge for yourself.
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This historic self-own from CPAC chair
@mschlapp is a fitting thread capperpic.twitter.com/ynW8fXsjx4
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