--- title: Donald Trump CPAC Speech: Read a Complete Transcript description: President Trump reiterated calls to repeal the Affordable Care Act and build a wall on the Mexican border in a speech to conservatives. canonical: https://time.com/4682023/cpac-donald-trump-speech-transcript/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-24T16:44:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T12:08:40.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read a Transcript of President Trump's CPAC Speech og:description: Trump repeated many of his applause lines from the campaign trail og:url: https://time.com/4682023/cpac-donald-trump-speech-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fab932e9b998c29/6988bbcf8fd2eec333355e95/donald-trump-cpac3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Addresses Annual CPAC Event In National Harbor, Maryland og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read a Transcript of President Trump's CPAC Speech twitter:description: Trump repeated many of his applause lines from the campaign trail twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fab932e9b998c29/6988bbcf8fd2eec333355e95/donald-trump-cpac3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read a Transcript of President Trump's CPAC Speech by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:08 PM UTCPublished: Feb 24, 2017 4:44 PM UTC  NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - FEBRUARY 24: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 24, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. Hosted by the American Conservative Union, CPAC is an annual gathering of right wing politicians, commentators and their supporters. (Photo by Olivier Douliery - Pool/Getty Images) NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - FEBRUARY 24: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 24, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. Hosted by the American Conservative Union, CPAC is an annual gathering of right wing politicians, commentators and their supporters. (Photo by Olivier Douliery - Pool/Getty Images)Pool—Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:08 PM UTCPublished: Feb 24, 2017 4:44 PM UTC President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4672974/donald-trump-white-house-chaos/) called for a military buildup, [criticized the media](http://time.com/4681802/donald-trump-cpac-speech-media/) and reiterated his campaign calls to repeal the Affordable Care Act and build a wall on the Mexican border in a speech to grassroots conservatives on Friday. Speaking at the annual [Conservative Political Action Conference](http://time.com/4681503/donald-trump-cpac-conservatives-alt-right/) outside Washington, D.C., Trump repeated [many of his applause lines](http://time.com/4682003/donald-trump-cpac-welfare/) from the campaign trail, even bashing former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, which sparked a brief chant of “lock her up!” from the crowd. “I love this place. I love you people,” he told the audience. “I wouldn’t miss a chance to talk to my friends. These are my friends.” Read a complete transcript of Trump’s remarks below: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4682023/cpac-donald-trump-speech-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4682023/cpac-donald-trump-speech-transcript/"},"headline":"Read a Transcript of President Trump's CPAC Speech","datePublished":"2017-02-24T16:44:23.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-24T12:08:40.000Z","description":"Trump repeated many of his applause lines from the campaign trail","url":"https://time.com/4682023/cpac-donald-trump-speech-transcript/","keywords":["Donald Trump","republicans","White House","CPAC","transcripts","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fab932e9b998c29/6988bbcf8fd2eec333355e95/donald-trump-cpac3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fab932e9b998c29/6988bbcf8fd2eec333355e95/donald-trump-cpac3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Addresses Annual CPAC Event In National Harbor, Maryland","caption":"President Trump Addresses Annual CPAC Event In National Harbor, Maryland","creditText":"Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4682023/cpac-donald-trump-speech-transcript/","name":"Read a Transcript of President Trump's CPAC Speech"}}]}] ```