President Donald Trump has long been associated with boasting, bluntness, and even crude language. That persona was on full display during a speech to Republican lawmakers gathered for their annual winter policy retreat at Trump’s Doral golf resort near Miami.
He opened his remarks on March 9 by commending Republicans for the work they’ve accomplished in support of his agenda over the past year, noting progress while also acknowledging bumps along the road, all while weaving in self-praise that seemed to outpace the achievements.
“We’re challenging a bit of tradition,” Trump warned at the outset.
“You know, historically, the person that wins, Democrat or Republican, ends up taking the presidency for reasons that don’t always pan out, but we’ve accomplished a lot. We’ve done, I think we’ve done, I think we had the best first year of any president ever,” the president proclaimed.
He appeared to minimize his deadly confrontation with Iran, labeling it a “little excursion.”
“We embarked on a little excursion because we felt we had to remove some people. And I think it’s going to be a short-term excursion,” Trump stated.
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The president said immediately after launching airstrikes on Tehran on Feb. 28, he expected the war to last about five weeks, but he was unsure whether American ground troops would be required.
He and his allies have been attempting to justify the attack with shifting and vague rationales for the bombing campaign, which was not approved by Congress and has already resulted in the deaths of seven U.S. service members in Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes.
As he rambled on, at one point, he delivered a jaw-dropping, profanity-laced tirade about how great he is.
“You know, they said this about a lot of things. No other president could do some of this sh-t I’m doing. No other president. The things I’m doing, nobody else was going to do,” he boasted.
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“They say it all the time, ‘Sir could you do this, you’re the only one who can do it,’” he proclaimed.
A social-media meltdown followed, rippling across the web as users expressed disbelief at what opponents call Trump’s inflated ego.
“That’s because every other president has been required to abide by the Constitution,” Threads user Lee H. Edgerley pointed out. Another agreed, “Because no other president has been a sociopathic warmongering pedophile.”
“Well, he’s right about that. No other president would do the sh-t he’s doing,” another stated.
Still, several others summed it up nicely, “Lie, cheat, and steal? Got it.”
“What a f-cking buffoon…,” poster Julee Mango added.
The three-day GOP conference follows a chaotic week for Republicans who have been placed in a position of having to defend Trump’s attack on Tehran, even though Trump’s own intelligence experts have said the Iranians were not a threat and were not preparing to attack as Trump and his henchmen have repeatedly claimed, according to news reports.
The Republican-controlled Congress has essentially ceded its authority over to Trump over the past year, refusing to rein him in on boat strikes in the Atlantic and Pacific, the capture of a foreign leader in an unauthorized invasion of Venezuela, a “12 day war,” as Defense Chief Pete Hegseth calls it, against Iran last summer and deadly air strikes in northwestern Nigeria on Christmas Day.
Democrats in the Senate, in trying to wrest control back from a “rogue” president, introduced a war powers resolution March 4, which was defeated on a 53-47 vote. House Republicans defeated a similar measure the next day.
