Trump Speaks For First Time Since Winning ‘Most Consequential Election’ | EUROtoday

In his first public remarks since successful the election, President-elect Donald Trump thanked his allies and gloated over successful “the most consequential election” in a Thursday night time speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

“So we swept all the swing states. We won the popular vote. Oh, I love that, you know,” Trump mentioned at a gala for the America First Policy Institute. “In my first term, they said, ‘He won the election,’ but they always followed by, ‘but he didn’t win the popular vote.’ … Nobody can say that anymore about us.”

He used the roughly 20-minute speech to thank varied allies and Cabinet picks, together with Newt and Callista Gingrich, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Trump has tapped the latter two to guide a brand new “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE.

He additionally delivered what was in all probability meant as a glowing endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide the Department of Health and Human Services.

“He wants to make people healthy. It’s driven him pretty wild over the last number of years,” he mentioned. “And today I nominated him for, I guess — if you like health, and if you like people that live a long time — it’s the most important position.”

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 in control of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“I’m going to let him go wild on health. I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on the medicines,” Trump mentioned at a marketing campaign rally final month.

Trump additionally thanked Linda McMahon, co-chair of the America First Policy Institute, which is a suppose tank based to advertise Trump’s coverage agenda.