At a House GOP retreat, the president delivered Republicans the experience of a campaign rally with wide-ranging jabs touching on plastic straws, light bulbs, cows and windmills.
BALTIMORE — President Donald Trump tore into his 2020 Democratic rivals, the media and even plastic straws when he addressed House Republicans Thursday during their annual retreat, providing some animated counter-programming to a Democratic debate halfway across the nation focused on candidates slamming the president.
And the president did not disappoint. Trump replayed some of his greatest hits through 68 minutes of wide-ranging remarks alternating between his prepared teleprompter lines and his own free-flowing stream of jabs. He slammed “sleepy” Joe Biden and “crazy” Bernie Sanders, poked fun at the Green New Deal, ripped the “fake news” media and lamented that energy-saving light bulbs make him “look orange.
Earlier in the day, the House Judiciary Committee approved guidelines for its impeachment investigation into Trump — a significant, albeit technical step for the Democratic caucus. “He brought the diesel tonight. He was very jovial as he addressed the members of the Republican conference,” said Rep. Mark Meadows , one of Trump’s top allies on Capitol Hill. “But more importantly, he outlined why the 2020 election is so important.”
Trump’s summer Twitter attacks on Charm City came long after congressional Republicans chose the site for their annual retreat. But over six weeks later, the divisive rhetoric was still creating headaches for GOP leaders, who were forced to defend the president’s remarks just hours before Trump’s speech on Thursday.
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