Trump Youth

[A] mostly white crowd of young people packed into a large ballroom for the chance to see the president. Many looked Fox News-ready, wearing slicked back hair and suits, or tight shift dresses, curled hair and strappy high heels.

Outside the ballroom, participants posed in front of a “FOX Nation” backdrop, and were able to pick up items like a sweatshirt with a collage of Trump’s face, “MAGA” purses, and $75 silk Trump scarves.

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Trump rallied [the] crowd of young supporters with a colorful airing of grievances Saturday night, just days after becoming the third president in American history to be impeached.

“Crazy Nancy, she’s crazy,” the president said of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Trump’s remarks came as he kicked off his two-week winter getaway with the keynote address to Turning Point USA’s annual student action summit here, not far from his Mar-a-Lago resort. It was a chance to bask in the love of some of his fiercest supporters, with scores of twenty-somethings donning “Make America Great Again” hats and rhinestone “TRUMP” hair clips.

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“What kind of great support did we have from those great [Republican] congressmen and women this week? They were fantastic,” Trump said. “And I guess the vote was 196 to nothing, we had three Democrats coming to our side so we have to say it was a bipartisan vote.”

  Politico

Technically, he had only one. One of the the other two voted "present" and the third had already telegraphed his intention to switch parties right after the vote. But, in today's world, even one allows you to claim bipartisanship.

After being prompted from an audience member who yelled “Where’s Hunter?” the president launched into a discussion of Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine, in an echo of the speech his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani gave on the opening day of the summit.

Yeah, that was spontaneous.

Trump delivered a red meat speech that touched on everything from immigration and the border wall, to longtime enemies like “Never Trumpers” and windmills.

“Why is it okay for these windmills to kill the bird population?” Trump said in a long, colorful riff on wind turbines.

Unreal.

But the president seemed to get the biggest kick out of doing informal polls of the audience, first noting the standing ovation he got when he mentioned creating the Space Force, and then asking the audience to tell him which slogan they like better: “Make America Great Again” or “Keep America Great.” The audience overwhelmingly cheered for “KAG.”

“KAG is becoming cool,” Trump said.

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The weekend’s list of speakers read like a who’s who of MAGA world: Giuliani, Fox News’ Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, commentators Dinesh D’Souza and Glenn Beck, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). The president was introduced by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

That is an incredible lineup. The nuttiest of the nuts.

Turning Point USA is the creation of 26-year old Charlie Kirk, who Trump calls “my great friend.” He’s a frequent guest at the White House and boasts of having the ear of Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner.

Kirk has become a fixture on television as a voice for pro-Trump, conservative millenials and Generation Z.

Keepin' 'em ignorant.

UPDATE:

“I never understood wind,” Trump said [during a speech to the conservative student group Turning Point USA], according to Mediaite. “I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous — if you are into this — tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?”

“So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right spewing, whether it is China or Germany, is going into the air,” the president added.

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“A windmill will kill many bald eagles,” he said, according to Mediate. “After a certain number, they make you turn the windmill off, that is true. By the way, they make you turn it off. And yet, if you killed one, they put you in jail. That is OK. But why is it OK for windmills to destroy the bird population?”

  The Hill