Encapsulating his unorthodox presidency, Trump assumed 10 personas in one speech
He lambasted and lampooned his rivals. He exaggerated and ballyhooed his record. He riddled his remarks with contradictions, shoddy statistics and falsehoods. And he embroidered it all with a fake Southern accent, curse words and bouts of extravagant pantomime.
Trump took the CPAC stage after a stretch of global failures: the collapse of nuclear talks with North Korea; record high trade deficits and signs of a slowing economy; a surge in illegal immigration; and an unbuilt border wall that is unfunded after a lost standoff with Democrats in Congress. Little of what Trump said was factual — he made 102 false or misleading claims in the speech, according to an analysis by The Washington Post’s Fact Checker — yet to this crowd and millions of supporters around the country, his broader points rang true and carried the imprimatur of authority because he delivered them.
He relied on his trademark gestures, from extending his index fingers and thumbs to frame his declarations of success to splaying his hands apart as if pulling taffy. The president from Queens adopted a Southern accent to mimic his former attorney general, Jeff Sessions, saying, “I’m gonna recuse mahhself.”
Every day, my presidency will defend American families. Core to Trump’s appeal is the notion that he is a billionaire who is nonetheless fighting on behalf of the American worker. Invoking the controversial national emergency that he declared last month after failing to secure money for his border wall, Trump criticized previous presidents for using executive powers to help people in faraway nations: “to ensure political stability in Burundi and to defend the sovereignty of Lebanon.”I spent my New Year’s all by myself. Trump has the power to launch nuclear weapons or summon a Diet Coke with the press of a button on the Resolute desk.
He also cast himself as the lonely star of the most recent government shutdown, incorrectly claiming that he remained in the White House “for a number of months.” Robert Mueller never received a vote. Trump is always looking to assert dominance. He taunted one of his regular targets: special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who is readying a report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that threatens to imperil Trump’s presidency.
“We have a gentleman that likes raising interest rates at the Fed,” Trump said in reference to Jerome H. Powell, whom he has regularly criticized since picking him to chair the Federal Reserve. “We have a gentleman that loves quantitative tightening in the Fed. We have a gentleman that likes a very strong dollar in the Fed.”
“When a tree falls, you can’t let the environmentalist say, ‘You can’t take that tree out,’ ” Trump said. “It becomes like a matchstick, that tree. It hits a flame, it goes up. The leaves — every once in a while, you have to remove the leaves because they are so — a guy smoking a cigarette, he throws it away. He doesn’t mean it. The thing catches on fire, and we lose 400,000 acres and people are killed. You got to have management.
There was a simple explanation: The lights at al-Asad Air Base, just outside Baghdad, were turned off to protect the president’s landing site from enemy fire. But that did not satisfy Trump. It, in fact, riled him up. But one of his favorite topics is his improbable 2016 campaign, a topic he returned to several times at CPAC. He relived the precise number of electoral votes he earned and twice mentioned gliding down the escalator in his Trump Tower in Manhattan to announce his quixotic bid.
He raised the topic at least four separate times at CPAC, using fantastical assertions to inflate his popular appeal — including a false claim that there has never been an empty seat at one of his rallies. In total, the Post’s Fact Checker concluded, Trump’s 102 false or misleading claims in the speech made March 2 the fourth-biggest day of his presidency for fishy statements.
The straight-talking New Yorker is known to curse freely in private, but he only occasionally does so from the presidential lectern. So when he called the Russia investigation “bullshit,” the crowd of conservative activists hummed with excitement. Those red hats — and white ones. The key isn’t the color. The key is what it says. As he fed off the energy of the crowd, Trump suddenly had a complaint. Referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat running for president, Trump adopted a conspiratorial tone and lamented, “I should’ve saved the ‘Pocahontas’ thing for another year.”
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