“Everything is really under control” proclaimed President Trump on Saturday in one of his trademark rambling addresses that freely mixes riffs demeaning political opponents with strident, right-wing rhetoric fed from a teleprompter. He went on to claim that his response to the outbreak has been “given very good grades, like an A plus plus plus” from unnamed experts. Trump also claimed that some critics of his policy to fight the pandemic “wanted to let infected people pour in our country.”
Trump received a rapturous response at the event, where red MAGA hats have become as mandatory as the khakis and blazers earnest young conservatives have always worn. CPAC is a Trump gathering now. Skeptics have been banished from the event while D-list Trump-world luminaries like Diamond and Silk and Seb Gorka are treated like stars
