Trump explains again that Conan the dog got more press than he did for Baghdadi. He says it was a mere half-day story for him, "but that's alright, I do it for a different reason."
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Trump's impression of a tiny Michael Bloomberg produces a "four more years" chant from the crowd.
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"That was a great firing," Trump says of his firing of James Comey. He introduces Jeffrey Lord in the crowd. He mocks Robert Mueller.
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Trump says it's "sort of a miracle" that he's accomplished this much given all he's had to go through. "Maybe it's right there, right?" He points to the sky. "Thank you," he adds while looking up. "Thank you, God."
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Trump: "Regulation is stealth taxation. Especially on the poor."
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Trump: "You had a lot of really nice people running our country over the years. Perhaps I'm not nice, but I'm doing a great job for you." There are some cheers. "Well, it's true."
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Trump says "the best line" at last year's CPAC was (his false claim) about how you can't watch TV if wind power is being used and the win doesn't blow, but he won't repeat this because "I don't like to be repetitive." (He endlessly repeats this story.)
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Trump mocks Biden for misspeaking at the debate about how "150 million people" were killed by guns since 2007. He claims he said to his wife, "'First Lady' -- I like calling her First Lady; I love calling her -- 'First Lady.' She said, 'It's OK you can call me Melania.'"
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Trump repeats an egregious lie, claiming the media cut off the video of his "Russia, if you're listening" "joke" so that you don't hear how much laughter there was in the crowd afterward, "and me laughing." It was at a press conference. The room was silent. Trump didn't laugh.
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This is one of Trump's attempts to rewrite a history that was televised. He's previously claimed he told this "joke" at an arena rally. It was a press conference at his resort.https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1233865797874876416 …
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Trump mocks Biden for his speaking gaffes, says he thinks Biden is going to have a big win in South Carolina, muses about "phony" pollsters, and says Fox is good but has bad pollsters.
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Trump mocks the appearance of Pete Buttigieg. He says only old supporters like the ones with white hair know what he means by Alfred E. Neuman, so someone suggested he just call Buttigieg Howdy Doody, but he responded, "No, that's no good. It's gotta be perfecto."
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With no evidence, Trump accuses Bloomberg of campaign finance violations for getting the endorsements of people he has contributed money to in the past. It's not illegal to endorse someone who has donated to your campaigns or your causes.
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Trump polls the crowd on who would be easier to beat. The crowd cheers louder for Sanders than Biden. Trump asks how this can be, then muses that Biden is "more down the middle" than Sanders, then says Biden wouldn't be running the government, "just sitting in a home someplace."
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Instead of arguing that Biden is very left-wing too, Trump says Biden is pretty centrist but tells people they have to remember Biden is so old he wouldn't really be in charge and would get socialists to do it for him.https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1233867852614111232 …
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Trump is talking about how he lost the Time Person of the Year to Greta, which he says is fine because he's won before, even though "the whole world revolves around this person" (him), as evidenced by cable news coverage. "Every story is Trump or Trump-related."
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Trump says people don't talk about how there's no more estate tax. That might be because there is still an estate tax.
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Trump says before him the US used to have a trade deficit with China of more than $500 billion per year. It has never once been $500 billion in a year. (Editor's note: For some reason, I find this Trump's #1 most boring favorite lie.)
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LOL. Trump's script says something like "We understand that our first duty and your highest loyalty is to the American citizen." But he accidentally says "We understand that our first LADY," then, trying to save it, says Melania told him this today and asked him to let CPAC know.
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"This is Melania -- told me this. Can you believe this?" The crowd is now cheering for this supposed advice from Melania. I've never seen a more elaborate Trump attempt to pretend he didn't make a reading error.https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1233870451862052867 …
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We have made our way to vicious crimes committed by people in the country illegally. Trump, struggling a bit to read the word "aliens," calls the left's preferred immigration policies "heartless, merciless and cruel."
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Trump refers to a crime by an "MS-3" member. After mocking Biden at length for verbal stumbles, Trump has been stumbling repeatedly.
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Trump has started going after Sanders more than usual, criticizing him for endorsing the right to vote for heinous criminals in prison and for calling for a moratorium on deportations.
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Trump lies again that Mexico is paying for the wall. He adds, "And they're okay with it."
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Trump: "We are ending surprise medical building."
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I have to go run an errand. I wish you luck with the rest of this address.
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He saved it for the end this time, adding a kiss. https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1233875544619401216?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1233875544619401216 …
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