Trump bounces back from week of setbacks with attack on Democrats
PRESIDENT DONALD Trump denounced Democrats as the party of “the socialist nightmare” and attacked several other groups in a speech that earned adoration of cheering conservatives.
After a trying week that saw the collapse of his North Korean summit meeting in Vietnam, damaging testimony from his former lawyer, and the collapse of a deal to pay for his border wall, President Trump delivered a speech aimed at his supporters that extended beyond two hours.
The president let loose against House Democrats, who are broadening their investigations of him, predicted he would win re-election by a greater margin than his 2016 victory, and taunted his potential White House challengers.
He complained often of getting “no credit” for his achievements as he proudly drifted “off script” at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
It took him more than an hour to get to his message that Democratic policy ideas are ‘dangerous socialism’.
“America will never be a socialist country,” he said. “Socialism is not about the environment, it’s not about justice, it’s not about virtue.”
He said it is about “power for the ruling class”.
For every prepared line there were multiple improvisations fas he mocked the Green New Deal and environmentalism.