The Day CPAC Becomes TPAC

Published February 24, 2017 10:00am ET



Donald Trump will make his first address to the Conservative Political Action Conference as president of the United States Friday. It’s not Trump’s first time speaking at the conservative confab—that would be his 2011 appearance, where the Apprentice star said he would be deciding soon if he would run for president the next year. He didn’t, but there were more than a few hints of what would become Candidate and then President Trump just a few years later.

“The United States has become a whipping post for the rest of the world,” Trump said in that first address, after entering to the sound of the O’Jay’s “For the Love of Money.” “The world is treating us without respect. They are not treating us properly.”

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