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Trump Ducks Behind Lectern At CPAC, Hugs And Kisses Flag While Telling It: ‘I Love You Baby!’
During this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention, Donald Trump riled the crowd by attacking 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and hugging an American flag and telling the fabric he’s in love with it.
“I love you baby,” Trump told the flag repeatedly as he held tight to it and blew kisses at it.
Trump concludes CPAC by hugging the American flag while saying, "I love you baby." pic.twitter.com/2HiI01O1ca
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 29, 2020
Trump at times struggled to pronounce words like “alien” and “recidivism” on stage.
Trump has some trouble reading the word "aliens" pic.twitter.com/tTzAZ1uhgu
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 29, 2020
Trump mangles the word "recidivism" pic.twitter.com/IiFLMUUDvA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 29, 2020
Trump also ripped into Thunberg, calling out the autistic teen climate activist for being named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2019.
“This year I lost to Greta,” Trump said to a booing crowd in National Harbor, Maryland. “I said, ‘Who?’”
“I’m not going to get involved in that because, last time, I got in a little trouble,” the president added, prompting a laugh from the crowd. “That doesn’t matter. I won it enough.”
We've reached the "booing at a teenage climate activist" portion of Trump's CPAC speech pic.twitter.com/2hSAJcjK6Q
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 29, 2020
“Look what I did to her! She choked. You know, she went out and got a test because I was killing her,” he said of Sen. Elizabeth Warren before using a racist slur he frequently employs to denigrate her.
TRUMP on Elizabeth Warren: "Look what I did to her! She choked. You know, she went out and got a test because I was killing her with the Pocahontas." pic.twitter.com/wC5zV6sqEO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 29, 2020
After attacking Sen. Warren (D-MA), Trump turned his attention to former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
“But, she was really mean to Mini Mike, the way she treated him,” Trump said of Bloomberg. “He didn’t know what hit him. He’s saying, ‘oh, get me off of this stage.'”
“Get me off, get me off of this stage,” Trump said as he ducked behind the podium.
