
Some rough customers entering our country. When illegal aliens trespass across our borders, they were prominently caught, detained and sent back home and these were some rough customers, I want to tell you. We ended catch and release, ended asylum fraud and brought illegal crossings to historic lows.

It’s amazing considering that the Democrats’ number one priority was to make sure that the wall would never, ever get built, would never, ever happen, would never get financed. But it’s had an impact that nobody would have even believed. They don’t want to complete little sections in certain little areas, they don’t want to complete. It’s been incredible and little sections of it to complete, they don’t want to complete it. We had built almost 500 miles of great border wall that helped us with these numbers because once it’s up, they used to say, “The wall doesn’t work.” Well you know what I’ve always said? Walls and wheels, those are two things that will never change. When I left office just six weeks ago, we had created the most secure border in U.S. It was all worked, nobody’s ever seen anything like we did and now he wants it all to go to hell. There is no better example than the new and horrible crisis on our Southern border. In just one short month we have gone from America first to America last. Already the Biden administration has proved that they are anti-jobs, anti-family anti-borders, anti-energy, anti-women, and anti-science. Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of any President in modern history, that’s true. The windmills that don’t work when you need them. Talked about energy, I said, “This guy actually he’s okay with energy.” He wasn’t okay with energy, he wants to put you all out of the business. We didn’t know what the hell he was talking about actually. We would have those wonderful debates, he would never talk about this. We all knew that the Biden administration was going to be bad, but none of us even imagined just how bad they would be and how far left they would go. You’ll be hearing more and more about that as we go along, but that’s what it leads to. We will fight the onslaught of radicalism, socialism, and indeed it all leads to communism once and for all. We will be united and strong like never before, we will save and strengthen America.

And I said, “They’re great.” And I want to thank everybody in this room and everybody all throughout the country, throughout the world if you want to really know the truth. I came here and he was giving me 95%, 97%, 92%. Those are great numbers and I want to thank you very much. McLaughlin just gave me numbers that nobody’s ever heard of before, more popular than anybody. Wouldn’t that be brilliant? Let’s start a new party and let’s divide our vote so that you can never win. They kept saying, “He’s going to start a brand new party.” We have the Republican party it’s going to unite and be stronger than ever before. We will do what we’ve done right from the beginning, which is to win. And I want you to know that I’m going to continue to fight right by your side. For the next four years, the brave Republicans in this room will be at the heart of the effort to oppose the radical Democrats, the fake news media and their toxic cancel culture, something new to our ears, cancel culture. We are gathered this afternoon to talk about the future of our movement, the future of our party and the future of our beloved country. To each and every one of you here at CPAC I am more grateful to you than you will ever know. He loved you Catherine, I will tell you that. He’s watching and he’s loving it and he loves Catherine. I also want to pay my love and respect to the great Rush Limbaugh who is watching closely and smiling down on us. They’re talking about it all over the world man, I know you don’t like it okay. And the American Conservative Union for hosting this extraordinary event. I want to thank my great friends, Matt and Mercedes Schlap, Matt, thank you. So no matter how much the Washington establishment and the powerful, special interests may want to silence us, let there be no doubt we will be victorious and America will be stronger and greater than ever before. Trump’s speech at CPAC was enough to haunt your most surreal fever dreams.

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