NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland As the Beatles lyric goes: Everybody had a hard year.
Everybody had a good time.
Everybody had a wet dream.
President Donald Trump at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 22, 2025.ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images
Everybody saw the sunshine.
Itsthe first CPAC since the failed assassination attempts on the 45th and now 47th president of the United States.
Somethins wrong, the president told the CPAC audience including thepardonedJan.
6 Capitol attackdefendants who hung out near the press area, cheering on Trump on Saturday.
The president was talking about the rate of babies being diagnosed with autism.
Bobbys gonna find it, Trump said.
I should go against her in the ratings, he said of MSNBC star Rachel Maddow.
Boy, did theyreally, reallywin.
Right now, thecountry is theirs.
But life goes on.
This is how we live now.
Our nations prime minister,Elon Musk, is playing with a chainsaw prop!
( President Trump finally showed up!
Former Fox News personalityMegyn Kellyis up there unloading on Blake Lively for some reason!
the CPAC organizers play an awful lot of filler on the Gaylord hotel ballrooms big screens.
There used to be moments of dark humor in events like these.
It was Megyn Kellys.
ET on Friday, Kelly embarked on an extended riff on actressBlake Lively.
Poor Blake Lively, Kelly said, in awah-wah-wahvoice of mockery.
This part of the speech went on seemingly forever.
This was not a tangent or fleeting gripe.
Kelly characterized Lively as a brat and a bully who was picking on the very effeminate-looking Baldoni.
On Saturday, not even Mr. Trump could top that.
