His speech, clocking in at just over two hours, dragged out for so long he had to check in repeatedly with the audience to make sure they hadn’t dozed off. Instead, he launched into a history lesson on the 1888 tariff debate, went into a bizarre aside referencing an (unnamed) friend in New York who is “a stone-cold killer” financier, and mocked both past members of his own administration as well as “white-haired” members of Congress. But it was nearly two hours into his speech Saturday before he made a single mention of the historic summit. It was his first public address since his trip to Vietnam this week to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un ended abruptly without a deal on denuclearization. He started off the event by bear-hugging a pole with the American flag, setting the tone for the rest of his appearance - reportedly the longest speech of his presidency. Trump took to the stage at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference this weekend for a long-winded and very quotable rant against the many perceived villains weighing down his presidency: namely the media, federal investigators and “socialist” challengers in the 2020 election.
The off-script, expletive-dropping Donald Trump that we first met on the campaign trail in 2015 is back in front of cameras.
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