Thread by @ddale8

Trump notes that he once faced CPAC skepticism about his conservatism. "I think now we've proved that I'm a conservative," he says to cheers.

"By the way, what a nice picture that is. I'd love to watch that guy speak," Trump says, pointing at a big screen showing himself.

Then he turns around and pats his hair.

"I try like hell to hide that bald spot, folks," he says. "We're hangin' in."

A protester! A U-S-A chant breaks out, and boos. Trump calls him "very obnoxious" and says the Fake News will make him the headline.

Has Trump ever before acknowledged that he has a bald spot? #pivot

Trump gives himself credit for creating 2.7 million jobs. To get to that number, he needs to go back to the final three months of the Obama era.

Trump is repeating his theory of midterms: supporters are "so happy" that they get complacent.

"Nobody has that same drive that they had," he says. "So you end up not doing that well, because the other side - they're crazed."

He adds that his opponents are generally crazed.

Trump polls the crowd on whether, if they could only have one, they'd pick tax cuts or the Second Amendment. They choose the Second Amendment.

Trump calls Hillary Clinton a "crooked candidate."

Students start a loud "lock her up" chant.

After the "lock her up" chant, Trump says "they have committed a lot of atrocities." He does not specificy who "they" are.

Trump repeats his extremely Trump claim that he is the only president who has fulfilled more promises than he actually made.

Trump is mocking John McCain's health care vote, and the crowd laughs and boos McCain.

Trump generally slams trade deals. He says West Virginia coal is "the finest coal." He boasts about approving the Keystone pipeline. He refers to the Paris Accord as a "wealth-knocking-out" agreement.

"They didn't want us to use our wealth power," he says,

An interesting thing Trump does in some speeches is say that he has to make sure to be precise because if he isn't he'll be fact-checked in the papers.

So he performs Attention to Accuracy, in a way other politicians don't, while being exceptionally dishonest.

Trump is describing the Paris Accord in his usual extremely inaccurate way. As always: every country in the accord set its own voluntary emissions-cut targets; the accord itself didn't impose restrictions.

"When," Trump says, did you hear about car companies investing in Michigan and Ohio?

The Obama era, for one!

The popular vote "would be so much easier," Trump says 15 months after the election, mocking Clinton for not visiting important states.

Trump claims CPAC used to give out a "best speech at CPAC" award, jokes that he's not coming back if he doesn't win it. (This might be true but Trump has a history of inventing "best" awards. During the campaign, he claimed he won a nonexistent Michigan Man of the Year award.)

The CPAC crowd loves Trump. He gets a roar when he talks about recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Without a strong military, Trump warns, some day people might not be allowed into CPAC or have their houses anymore.

Trump unsubtly goes from saying we need strong borders to saying "we celebrate our history and our heroes" to saying he'll build the wall don't worry.

Another "build that wall" chant erupts.

Trump falsely claims "Apple brought $350 billion in." Apple said that $350 billion over five years includes existing domestic spending - $55 billion a year as of 2018, so $275 billion over five years.

Trump talks about how they believe in standing for the national anthem. He gets a large cheer and a U-S-A chant, then more cheers for his usual "we don't worship government, we worship God."

Trump, talking about Billy Graham being allowed to lie in the Capitol Rotunda for public visits, says, "He deserves it. Not everybody deserves it." The students behind me try to muffle their laughter.

Trump hails the Douglas students he met with, promises, "We will act."

He speaks specifically of the lost promise and beauty of slain student Meadow Pollack, whose father Andrew urged him to make schools more secure but not change gun laws.

Trump: "It's time to make our schools a much harder target for attackers," more like banks and government buildings.

Trump's musings about arming teachers have now been put in a formal speech.

"People that are adept at weaponry and guns - they teach!" he says.

He says he doesn't want armed guards around the schools, so "you do a concealed carry permit."

"This would be a major deterrent."

Trump, after saying that he wants to arm teachers, says, "I'm not talking about teachers."

Trump says he'd rather have armed teachers than armed cop-guards who don't know the kids.

"These teachers love their students. And these teachers are talented with weaponry, with guns...And I'd rather have somebody that loves their student and wants to protect their students."

Trump on Nikolas Cruz: "A teacher would've shot the hell out of him."

Trump says mentally ill people shouldn't have "any form of weaponry."

Trump says he's going to "look at that whole policy" that doesn't let soldiers carry guns around military bases. "If we can't have our military holding guns, it's pretty bad," he says.

"Most of it's just common sense," Trump says of his gun proposals. "It's not do you love guns, do you hate guns...common sense."

Trump, demonstrating a stabbing, on MS-13: "They cut people, they cut 'em, they cut 'em up in little pieces."

Trump, talking immigration or crime or both, says Democrats "are always fighting for the criminal, they're not fighting for law-abiding citizens."

Repeating one of his most exceptionally absurd lies, Trump claims Democrats "don't want to do anything about DACA" and have stopped even talking about it. For real action, he says, "elect more Republicans."

Trump lies for the 11th time about the visa lottery system, shouting, "They're not giving us their best people, folks...I mean, use your heads!"

People enter the lottery on their own because they want to immigrate. They are not dumped into the lottery pot by foreign governments.

"They say 22 people came in with him," Trump says of the man accused of the West Side Highway terror attack.

Nobody says that. Trump says that. It's almost certainly false, even according to opponents of what he calls chain migration.

Wow, greatest hits! Trump is about to do The Snake, the song he read out at campaign rallies as an allegory for the danger of Muslims/refugees/immigrants.

Trump asks people to think of The Snake "in terms of immigration." He adds: "You may love it, or you may say 'isn't that terrible.' And if you say 'isn't that terrible' - who cares."

If you've somehow missed The Snake, these are the lyrics Trump variously says apply to immigrants, Muslims and refugees. He is currently performing a dramatic reading: "VICIOUS BITE."

CPAC gives a standing ovation to Trump's reading of The Snake.

Trump says "African-American unemployment has reached the lowest level in our history. Hispanic unemployment has reached the lowest level in our history."

Not currently true. The African-American rate spiked from 6.8% in December to a non-record 7.7% in January.

Trump falsely says wages are now rising for the first time in years. They have been rising since 2014.

Trump falsely says the trade deficit with China last year was "almost $500 billion."

It was $310 billion.

Sorry, I'll be clear: the trade deficit with China was $310 billion in 2016. It was $375 billion in goods in 2017; services trade data is not yet available, but it'll bring the total down by tens of billions.

So Trump is off by at least $125 billion.

Trump claims "all those horrible people back there" in the media will eventually support him before the election, since "they'll all be out of business" if he loses.

Trump falsely says there's an $100 billion trade deficit with Mexico.

The goods trade deficit was $71 billion in 2017. It's lower if you count services.

Trump says the World Trade Organization, created in 1995, "created China."

Trump almost forgot to mention the one piece of news his advisers said he'd announce in this speech, new sanctions on North Korea. He slips it in under the wire, then gets an extended standing ovation.

The CPACers can't complain he didn't play the classics.

The listicle was invented for Trump speeches like this. There's no way to do it justice without just quoting like 30 things.

"About 90% of that was just from his heart," not a Teleprompter, Mark Meadows says from the CPAC stage of Trump's speech. "That's the great thing about this president."