President Trump declared himself among friends as he delivered a campaign-style speech Friday at an annual gathering of conservative activists, where he told the crowd that the movement he built during his campaign represents the future of the Republican Party.
“Now you finally have a president, finally,” Trump said, later promising that “the forgotten men and women of America will be forgotten no more.”
With his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Maryland, Trump became the first sitting president since Ronald Reagan to address the group during his first year in office. After taking the stage to Lee Greenwood's “God Bless the U.S.A.," Trump pledged to return often.
The wide-ranging speech amounted to a victory lap for Trump and chance to recount his campaign promises as well as thank a wing of the party with which he has not always been in sync.
“The core conviction of our movement is that we are a nation that put and will put its own citizens first,” Trump said, prompting the crowd to chant: “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
You know it is becoming increasingly clear that Trump sees himself less as a president, than he does the second coming of Jesus Christ.
And this is how some in the audience responded to his all about me speech.
Crowd at CPAC waving these little pro-Trump flags that look exactly like the Russian flag. Staffers quickly come around to confiscate them. http://pic.twitter.com/YhPpkwFCNc— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) February 24, 2017
A section of people in the back of #CPAC2017 waving Russian flags -- a staffer just came and demanded they all be handed over. http://pic.twitter.com/mZVoVUqudn— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) February 24, 2017
No joke, someone has been handing out Russian flags that say #Trump on them. And people are waving them.#CPAC2017 http://pic.twitter.com/CDZS5oEqyL— Maya Shwayder (@MayaErgas) February 24, 2017
— Ali Rogin (@AliABCNews) February 24, 2017Okay this might be my favorite thing to ever happen at CPAC.
Not that there is a lot of competition for that title.
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