“…the weirdest Trump speech I’ve ever heard” -Daniel Dale

Earlier today, Republican President Donald Trump addressed attendees at the far-right Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), an annual far-right political conference. Trump spoke for approximately two hours, in the longest speech he’s ever given during his presidency so far, and not only was it a long speech, it was completely bonkers. In fact, Daniel Dale, a journalist for the Canada-based Toronto Star newspaper who is best-regarded for his use of Twitter to fact-check Trump speeches in real time, called Trump’s speech “the weirdest Trump speech I’ve ever heard”:

This is 100% the weirdest Trump speech I've ever heard.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019

This is a pretty good summary of Trump’s completely bonkers CPAC speech.

Here are just a few instances of Trump spewing total lies at CPAC:

For the 20th consecutive time, Trump says Hillary Clinton got 223 electoral votes. She got 232.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019

Trump is falsely claiming, again, that John Podesta called for Comey's ouster. Podesta criticized Comey the day of the firing, saying "the American public is getting mildly nauseous listening to Jim Comey," but didn't call for Comey to go.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019

Trump falsely claims that over 600,000 manufacturing jobs have been created on his watch. He has previously said it was over 500,000 but would "very soon" be 600,000, now just decided it is indeed over 600,000. It was 454,000 through January.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019

Trump falsely claims that the US is forced to release criminals caught immigrating illegally, falsely claims other countries don't allow people a court process for asylum claims, falsely claims "3%" of people return for trial. 72% in 2017, per DOJ, and 89% for asylum seekers.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019

I’m not going to post every single tweet of Daniel Dale’s thread on here, nor am I going to post a video of Trump’s CPAC speech (I haven’t even watched an actual video of Trump’s speech, although I’ve read Dale’s entire thread of his account of Trump’s speech), but Trump’s speech at this year’s CPAC was two hours of far-right insanity, to put it mildly. Just by reading Dale’s tweets about the Trump speech, it is a detailed and chilling account of the far-right cult of personality that Trump has cultivated.