The former president ended his remarks on a motivational note, saying: “We’re going to keep on working. We are going to keep on fighting. We’re going to keep on winning, and we are going to get our country back. As long as we can not lose our spirit, our movement will never be defeated. This is the greatest movement. MAGA is the greatest movement in the history of our country. There’s never been anything like it, probably, you can say it’s the greatest or one of the greatest in the history of the world.”

“And with the help of all of you here tonight and the millions of patriots all across our land, we will make America powerful again, we will make America wealthy again, we will make America strong again, we will make America proud again, we will make America safe again, and we will make America great again,” he said as the crowd rose to its feet and music started playing.

Trump pledged to keep fighting for his supporters, telling the crowd: “No matter how big or powerful, the corrupt radicals we are fighting against, no matter how menacing they appear, we must never forget that this nation does not belong to them. This nation belongs to you.”

“This is your home. This is your heritage. This is your country that your American ancestors won with their own courage, defended with their own blood, and built with their own hands.”

“I got a racist Attorney General in New York has been after me for years,” Trump told the crowd, referencing New York state Attorney General Letitia James. “She campaigned on the fact that ‘I will get Donald Trump.'”

Calling her and others investigating him “terrible people,” he praised his business practices, saying: “I built a great company. Now they’re finding out this was a great company, great company, actually better than they thought, much better.”

Trump brought Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines on stage to celebrate her advocacy for women’s sports and her criticisms of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.

Gaines, Trump said, has “been so brave, you know, because a lot of people say you can’t” oppose transgender people participating in competitive women’s sports.

When Gaines took the microphone, she told the crowd: “Basically, all I want to say is that it takes a brain and common sense and fifth grade biology level understanding to realize this is blatantly unfair. It’s completely obvious. And so I spoke earlier today, and I said a lot, so I’ll keep it short, and I’m just going to say keep female sports female.”

Gaines was nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year by the University of Kentucky after she finished her career in the pool this year, the same year as Thomas, who attended the University of Pennsylvania.

Trump called on Republicans in the House of Representatives to pass legislation after the November midterm elections to “remove rogue bureaucrats and root out the deep state.”

“Another key priority for the next Congress and the next president will be to drain the swamp once and for all,” Trump told the crowd. “To remove rogue bureaucrats and root out the deep state, Congress should pass groundbreaking reform empowering the president to ensure that any federal employee who is corrupt, incompetent, or unnecessary for the job can be told you’re fired.”

“You ever hear about our current appeals process to remove these bureaucrats people that can really be bad?” he said. “They can even be thieves, you can catch them stealing large sums of money. You have to go through a three stage appeals process, which takes, on average, five years per stage. [By] 15 years, you’ll be gone. You’ll be out of office by then. In other words, to fire someone who is doing a bad job if the government wants, will take more than a decade under the current system. Almost all politicians won’t start that process because they’ll be gone.”

“It’s time to clean house in Washington, D.C., and we did a lot of it, but nobody knew that deep state was that way.”

Trump continued his remarks from Friday by going after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) over his surprise energy, healthcare, and tax deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

“Mitch McConnell got taken for a ride by Joe Manchin,” the former president said, a similar message from his Friday speech. “The great people of West Virginia have been seriously hurt by these political antics. I love West Virginia, fought for and won it by 45 points, 45. No, Manchin has totally sold West Virginia out, though, he’s done to West Virginia.”

“He and Sinema agreed to allow this massive tax increase just yesterday to go forward,” he continued, referencing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).

“What happened to Manchin and Sinema, what happened? We’re trying to figure out what the hell happened. Where did this new philosophy come from all of a sudden?” Trump then asked. “I think if this deal passes, they will both lose their next election. I do believe West Virginia and Arizona will not stand for what they did to them. And that includes the races that are being run right now.”

“They’re not going to take it,” he said, referring to voters heading to the polls this November.

“So maybe this speech can stop them,” Trump then said of Manchin, arguing that perhaps the red-state Democrat would pull his support for the legislation once he “hears me say he’s going to lose West Virginia and I’ll go down and campaign against him as hard as anybody can.”

“The woman brings chaos, and that’s exactly what’s happening,” Trump said of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). “What’s happened in China right now, what’s happening in China and Taiwan? With what’s going on, she played right into their hands, because now they have an excuse to do whatever they’re doing.”

“I will tell you it would have never ever happened in a million years under Trump,” he added.

The former president said at a rally on Friday: “What was she doing in Taiwan? She was China’s dream. She gave them an excuse. They had been looking for that excuse — she gave it.”

It seems as though the excuse he mentioned on Friday and Saturday has to do with China’s heightened military aggression in the wake of Pelosi’s visit.

“I want to thank you for your incredible support also,” Trump told the crowd. “Because I just walked in the door and they told me about the straw poll.”

He continued to thank the audience and noted his performance in previous CPAC straw polls.

The former president has taken the stage for his marquee address. He began his speech shouting out Republican allies in the audience, praising speeches made at the conference by Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Lauren Boebert (R-CO).