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There is a video before Trump speaks. As the Trump on video says "we will make America great again," the crowd shouts GREAT AGAIN in time with him. Then there is a video of Matt Schlapp on CNN talking about "socialism."

The crowd is booing CNN's Chris Cuomo, whose interview with Matt Schlapp is on screen. "RETARRRD," a guy behind me yells at the screen, then apologizes.

Some of the crowd is booing on-screen Chris Cuomo when he notes that Trump lies, citing examples like his denial of knowledge of the Stormy Daniels payment and his wild false claims about mass voter fraud. Some shouts: "Youuu lie!" "CNN lies!" "FAAAKE NEWWWS!"

We are listening to Candle in the Wind. Elton John is a staple of Trump-speech playlists.

We are now watching a highlight reel of Matt Schlapp arguing with people on CNN. The video ends with "SCHLAPPED" in big letters.

Trump: "What we've done together has never been done in the history, maybe, of beyond our country...the history of the word." He refers to "the election," then says we refer to it "with a capital E."

"I was probably more of a conservative than a Republican," Trump says of his 2016 candidacy. He is telling the detailed story about how people did not think he could beat Hillary Clinton, but then, in fact, he did.

For the 20th consecutive time, Trump says Hillary Clinton got 223 electoral votes. She got 232.

This should be world, not word. My bad.https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1101894445543444480 …

Trump on foreign leaders: "They like me."

Trump complains of other presidents not challenging "40%" auto tariffs from China. They were not 40% until China retaliated against Trump's tariffs. They're now back down to 15%.

Trump is now telling the story of the 1888 tariff debate. As before, he doesn't get it quite right. (He says it was about how to spend all the money the government had. It was indeed about the big surplus, but it was about how to reduce that surplus, not about how to spend it.)

Trump: "I'm totally off script right now. And this is how I got elected, by being off script." There is a standing ovation.

Trump: "If we don't go off script, our country's in big trouble, folks." He complains of the "New Green Deal or whatever the hell they call it." He then corrects himself, and mockingly says he is very excited for Democrats to promote it, thinks it's great.

Trump, mocking the Green New Deal, acts out a husband peering up at the sky as he attempts to watch TV but can't because it is not windy. He says, "Darling, is the wind blowing today? I'd like to watch television, darling." There is raucous laughter and applause.

Trump says his wife always tells him not to use certain words, so he won't, but he tells her sometimes, "But the audience wanted me to do it. She said, 'don't do it.'" There is a "USE IT" chant from the crowd. Trump criticizes "the fake news" for not treating his jokes as jokes.

! Trump, shouting and gesturing, re-enacts his call for Russia to obtain Hillary Clinton's emails. He suggests this was a joke the media unfairly didn't treat as a joke. There is a loud LOCK HER UP chant.

Trump mocks CNN, in his mocking voice, for accurately reporting in 2016 that "he asked Russia to come get the emails." He says, "These people are sick."

Trump says conservatives don't like tariffs. As for himself, he says, "I'm not likin' or not likin.'" He said on Feb. 15: "I happen to like tariffs."

For the 104th time as president, Trump falsely says the U.S. has had a $500 billion trade deficit with China "for many years," specifying that it is $507 billion. It was $337 billion in 2017, has never been $500 billion in any previous year.

Trump says of Republican congressman that he wants to name and applaud "every damn one of them." He names two of them, Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan.

Trump is ranting about Democrats' plans to investigate his financial dealings. He refers to Rep. Adam Schiff as "Little Shifty Schiff."

Trump on Mueller's appointment: "You put the wrong people in a couple of positions...and all of a sudden they're trying to take you out with bullshit." Some of the crowd chants BULL-SHIT.

Trump mocks Jeff Sessions's accent, as he has been reported to do in private, saying, "I'm gonna recuse mahhhself."

There was a bit of a not-totally-pleased gasp at CPAC when Trump did this, in my subjective opinion. Trump has denied Woodward's reporting that he has called Sessions a "dumb southerner."https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1101899305072222208 …

Trump says "TiVo" is "better than television": "Television is practically useless without TiVo."

Trump is criticizing Sessions and Rosenstein at length, complaining that they, and Mueller, weren't elected, unlike him. He appointed both of them after he was elected.

Trump says he told Melania that he was going to fire James Comey because: "He's bad. He's a bad, bad guy." He says again that he thought it would be a popular move with both parties. "So bipartisan."

Trump is falsely claiming, again, that John Podesta called for Comey's ouster. Podesta criticized Comey the day of the firing, saying "the American public is getting mildly nauseous listening to Jim Comey," but didn't call for Comey to go.