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President Trump Gets Standing Ovation At CPAC, Blasts Fake News Media, Confirms Campaign Promises
President Trump declared himself among friends as he delivered a campaign-style speech Friday at an annual gathering of conservative activists and told the crowd that his movement represented the future of the Republican party.
“Now you finally have a president, finally,” Trump said, shortly after taking stage to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” He later promised 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.
Trump noted that he had appeared at the conference several times before and pledged to return often.
“I love this place, love you people, so thank you,” Trump said. “I wouldn’t miss a chance to talk to my friends. These are my friends.”
Trump Blasts Media, Outlines His Presidential Promises at CPAC 2017:
Trump’s speech followed several well-received appearances at the four-day gathering by senior members of his administration, including a speech Thursday night by Vice President Pence.
During his remarks, Trump said that in a matter of days, he would have “brand new action” to keep the country safe, a reference to a second attempt at an executive order to restrict travel into the country from several majority-Muslim nations.
Trump cited a series of terrorist attacks overseas and said: “We have to be smart, folks. We can’t let it happen to us. … We are going to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country.”
“I will never ever, ever apologize for protecting the safety and security of the American people,” Trump said, adding that he’s even willing to get bad press for doing so.
The new president got a raucous reception from the crowd, which at one point started chanting “lock her up” after Trump derided Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent in last year’s election, for describing some of Trump’s supporters as “deplorables.”
America: Love Her Or Leave Here
Trump sought to portray his fledgling administration as one of action, ticking off multiple fronts on which he’s already moved: pulling out of a major trade deal, reducing regulations, cracking down on illegal immigrants and clearing the way for construction of major oil pipelines.
Trump also touted his efforts to “massively lower taxes” and replace the Affordable Care Act. He called it “the disaster known as Obamacare,” to great applause.
He also asserted that his presidency was already producing more jobs, and said it was time for all Americans to “get off of welfare and get back to work.”
He pledged to build up the military and “totally obliterate” the Islamic State terrorist group. “Nobody will dare question our military might again,” Trump said.
Trump used the opening of his remarks to again denounce the media, saying many stories about his administration are “fake news” with stories that rely on anonymous sources. Trump pointed to a Washington Post story this month that cited nine current and former intelligence sources who said Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn discussed U.S. economic sanctions on Russia with that country’s ambassador before Trump took office.
PRESIDENT TRUMP BLASTED THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS
Trump said he didn’t believe there were nine sources. “They make up sources. They are very dishonest people,” Trump said. The Post’s stories helped lead to Flynn’s resignation after further disclosures that he had misled administration officials, including Vice President Pence, over the nature of his conversations.
“We are fighting the fake news,” Trump said. “It’s fake, phony, fake.”
Trump, who has taken a combative posture toward several media outlets, derided to CNN as the “Clinton news network,” as he has done before.
When he was not attacking the press, Trump told his audience that his victory represented a “movement the likes of which the world has never seen before.” He said other movements, like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who sought the Democratic presidential nomination, “petered out.”
“The core conviction of our movement is that we are a nation that put and will put its own citizens first,” Trump said. That lead the crowd to chant: “U.S.A! U.S.A!”
“For too long, we’ve traded away our jobs to other countries. We’ve defended other nations borders while leaving ours wide open,” Trump said, prompting cries to “build a wall.” Trump pledged the construction of the wall on the U.S. border with Mexico would begin soon, even though it is unclear where the money to pay for it will come from.
“We’re going to build a wall, don’t worry about it,” the president said.
Through Trump won election as more of a populist than a traditional conservative, his fledgling administration has given conservatives plenty to cheer, including many Cabinet selections and Trump’s pledges to repeal the Affordable Care Act and pursue sweeping tax reform. source
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