Forget the rape allegations or the federal indictment against him deliberately avoid return confidential documents. Donald Trump received the Oakland County Republican’s “Man of the Decade” award on Sunday night—part of an appearance that saw him act as keynote speaker at the Lincoln Day Dinner last year. 2023 in Michigan.
Hoping to regain the key position he lost between 2016 and 2020, Trump appeared in suburban Detroit, marking his first campaign appearance in the state. Tickets for the event sell for between $250 and $7,500, with the bulk breaking Trump’s previous Michigan attendance record, according to Oakland Press.
The former president said this is the second time he has received the award, although Rolling Stone only in one year 2013 Press Release—the last time he was the keynote speaker at the event—from the group that didn’t mention it. Based on Reality check, Trump has repeatedly stated since the 2013 event that he has won the “Man of the Year” award. That fact is “suspicious”, it noted.
“Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is the keynote speaker and right now he is the most notorious person on the planet,” said former GOP Representative Ryan Berman, who hosted this year’s dinner. a reporter for the Detroit Free Press.
“No president has fought as hard for Michigan as I have,” Trump said in his speech, making baseless claims that the Biden administration’s electric vehicle goals would “destroy ” this state and that the “global vultures” in Washington have “cruelly betrayed Michigan workers and families like no one else could believe.
“For seven years we have all fought side by side to save our country from the sinister forces that truly hate our country and want to destroy it, and now we are moving forward. close to the most important battle of his life,” Trump said, “adding that this was the most important election we’ve had, without a doubt.”
He repeated some of his biggest successes in his speech, including false claims about election fraud and claims that World War III was imminent—a war that only he can only be prevented.
Trump declared that if elected in 2024, before he even reached the Oval Office, “I will finish the war between Russia and Ukraine. I will do it in 24 hours. It’s not hard to do,” he boasted.
Trump added that if he wasn’t the leading Republican candidate, “all this bullshit investigation would stop immediately.”
“I consider it a badge of honor and courage,” he said. “I am essentially being prosecuted on behalf of you, 200 million people who love our country.”
Trump added he would immediately federal funding cuts “For any school that promotes critical racial theory, transgender insanity, and other racially, sexually or politically inappropriate content over the lives of our children. ” He also reiterated his call for an end to citizenship by birth, all welcome.
He focused the majority of his attacks on Joe Biden, claiming that the President was “not in favor of religion” and was a “disaster.” He added that he dropped his moniker “Crooked Hillary” to replace the moniker of “Cheating Joe Biden.” “I feel like Joe Biden needs it more,” he said. Although he did take the time to dig up a Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – claiming he “has no personality.”
“We are a failed nation. A nation in decline… This is the final battle,” Trump said. With your support, we will overthrow the Deep State… drive out the globalists, we will drive out the communists, the Marxists and the fascists. We’ll beat the crooked Joe Biden. We will free America from these thugs once and for all.”
