Trump's Remarks at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference

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Here's the transcript. It's all so nutty that it's hard for me to select just one snippet. So let's go back to that greatest inauguration turnout of all time.

REMARKS

Remarks by President Trump at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference
Issued on: March 3, 2019

Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
National Harbor, Maryland
March 2, 2019
12:17 P.M. EST

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They did the same thing at our big inauguration speech. You take a look at those crowds. And I watched one of the evening shows that are ridiculous, how horrible they are, how mean — how horrible. And I watched it by mistake. (Laughter.) And they showed — they showed from the White House all the way down. They showed from the Cap- — they showed — there were people. Nobody has ever seen it. The Capitol down to the Washington Monument — people. But I saw pictures that there were no people. (Laughter.) Those pictures were taken hours before. Right? And they always mention crowd size. “He talks about crowd size.”

So I’m constantly bugging Mercedes. Whenever we have a slow moment, I say, “Mercedes” — and Sarah — “show them the pictures. Show them. And compare them with what they put on television. Those pictures were taken hours before.” And remember this also — not that Obama would ever do this: But we had fencing all the way down to the Washington Monument. And it was raining and it was wet, and the grass was wet. And women and men — and I consider them totally equal, so I’m not going to say it’s harder. (Laughter.) In fact, it’s probably, with the men I know, it’s actually easier for the women to make the walk, right?

AUDIENCE: No!

THE PRESIDENT: But they had to walk all the way down. They had to walk with high heels, in many cases. They had to walk all the way down to the Washington Monument and then back. And I looked, and I made a speech, and I said, before I got on — I said to the people that were sitting next to me, “I’ve never seen anything like this. Look at that crowd.” And it was wide. Wide.

We had a crowd — I’ve never seen anything like it. And I have to live — I have to live with “crowd size.” It’s all a phony deal. But I saw a picture just the other night of practically no people. It was taken hours before our great day. That was a great day for us. That was a great, great day. People came from all over. (Applause.) People came from all over.

So, Sarah said, and Mercedes said, “Sir, it doesn’t matter. Nobody cares.” I said, “But I care.” (Laughter.) And people care. People care.

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[Girard442]

1. The speech was such a tsunami of bullshit that no one could really process it.

If you asked CPAC attendees the next day what Trump actually said, I doubt that many could tell you.

[underpants]

2. 2 1/2 hours?

That’s a truckload of the stoopid

[CatMor]

3. I don't know how anyone could sit there .

for 2+ hours and listen to such crazy nonsense. The fact he is still ranting about his inauguration is pathetic. I sometimes think his audience is there for a comedy show and it's how they get their laughs. He seems to have gone into total insanity.