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Finish Donald Trump now, Democrats warned at his impeachment trial, or will he take on the aspect of a king.

The prophecy appears to have been borne out, as the US president easily out jobs to loyalists, purges perceived enemies, pardons convicted criminals and swaggers as if with a divine right.

On Saturday, addressing the biggest annual gathering of Us grassroots conservatives, Trump wondered aloud at it being "sort of a miracle" he has got so much done despite all he'southward been through.

"Maybe it's right there, right?" he asked, pointing to the heavens. "Thank you, God."

The crowd loved it. Trump stayed away from a sceptical Conservative Political Action Conference in 2016 simply now he is its lord's day king. Supporters in a deluxe ballroom at the National Harbour leaped to their feet, whooping and cheering, many wearing "Make America not bad once more" and "Keep America great" caps.

They roared their approval when, like a medieval monarch who has survived a encarmine coup, Trump vowed revenge.

"They're coming after me and we fight them back," he said. "And now we're going after them considering we accept no choice. We have to straighten out our country. Simply despite the best efforts of the leftwing fanatics, their scams, schemes, slanders, they've all been discredited, totally discredited."

He singled out James Comey, whom he fired equally managing director of the FBI, and special counsel Robert Mueller, who led the Russian federation investigation, as enemies whose heads deserved to terminate up on metaphorical spikes.

"How is Comey doing?" he asked, sardonically. "How is Bob Mueller doing? That was a great operation in Congress. 'Raise your correct manus.' 'What?'"

There was also mention of the Utah senator Paw Romney, who voted to convict Trump at the impeachment trial and, like a rebellious duke, was banished from CPAC this year. Trump described Romney as "lowlife" and the crowd booed lustily.

The president as well spoke ominously of getting rid of bad people in regime who are "not people that honey our country" and launched a familiar tirade against the "fake news" media.

He gave little sign that he is worried about the democratic inconvenience of an ballot in Nov. Only a couple of hours after trying to muster gravitas in the White House briefing room while discussing the coronavirus, he reverted to the comfort zone of freewheeling rally style.

He took please in mocking each of his Democratic rivals.

"Nosotros've got Sleepy Joe [Biden], we've got Crazy Bernie [Sanders], we've got Mini Mike [Bloomberg] but I think he'due south out of it," he said. "That was probably the worst debate functioning in the history of presidential debates.

"It just shows you can't buy an election. I mean, in that location's a point at which people say, 'Y'all gotta bring the appurtenances a lilliputian bit, likewise.'"

Trump parodied Bloomberg'southward meridian by crouching behind the lectern and the crowd went wild, laughing ecstatically and chanting: "Four more years! Four more years!"

The president said: "Nosotros hit a nerve!"

Supporters of Donald Trump applauds as he speaks. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

He also took a swipe at Biden, the former vice-president, for a gaffe in a recent debate: "Did he just say that nosotros killed 150 one thousand thousand people? That's half of our population."

Trump even held an instant poll by request the audience to "scream" for whether he would crush Biden or Sanders more than easily. There was a significant scream for Biden merely a much louder and sustained 1 for the autonomous socialist senator from Vermont.

Trump suggested Biden would be "sitting in a home" for the elderly rather than governing, whereas Sanders might be a communist. That chimed with the conference's theme: "America vs socialism".

Of the Democrats, Trump warned darkly: "They want to accept away your money, take abroad your choice, take away your spoken language, take away your guns, accept away your religion, take away your history, take away your future and ultimately take away your liberty. But we will never let them do that."

In a characteristically rambling monologue, he seemed genuinely unable to embrace how teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg crush him to the precious title of Time magazine person of the year.

But he finished his speech by hugging and kissing the flag – a familiar movement which elicited a huge cheer from his devoted subjects.

For them, and for Trump'due south loyal courtiers at the White Firm and on Capitol Hill, it is a case of long live the male monarch.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/29/donald-trump-cpac-romney-comey-flag