In his first public remarks since profitable the election, President-elect Donald Trump thanked his allies and gloated over profitable “essentially the most consequential election” in a Thursday evening speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
“So we swept all of the swing states. We gained the favored vote. Oh, I like that, you realize,” Trump stated at a gala for the America First Coverage Institute. “In my first time period, they stated, ‘He gained the election,’ however they all the time adopted by, ‘however he didn’t win the favored vote.’ … No one can say that anymore about us.”
He used the roughly 20-minute speech to thank numerous allies and Cupboard picks, together with Newt and Callista Gingrich, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Trump has tapped the latter two to steer a brand new “Division of Authorities Effectivity,” or DOGE.
He additionally delivered what was in all probability meant as a glowing endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to steer the Division of Well being and Human Providers.
“He desires to make folks wholesome. It’s pushed him fairly wild during the last variety of years,” he stated. “And at this time I nominated him for, I suppose — in case you like well being, and in case you like people who stay a very long time — it’s crucial place.”
It’s not the primary time Trump has related the phrase “wild” with Kennedy ― a distinguished anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who’s vowed to overtake the division accountable for the Meals and Drug Administration and the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
“I’m going to let him go wild on well being. I’m going to let him go wild on the meals. I’m going to let him go wild on the medicines,” Trump stated at a marketing campaign rally final month.
Trump additionally thanked Linda McMahon, co-chair of the America First Coverage Institute, which is a suppose tank based to advertise Trump’s coverage agenda.
