Donald Trump used a Tuesday speech to brag to his fellow GOP lawmakers about his successes and his recent attack on Venezuela while sprinkling his lengthy address with jokes and wild facial movements as he mocked transgender weightlifters.
The president, who addressed the House GOP Conference’s annual retreat at The Kennedy Center, appeared completely unfazed by the razor-thin margin keeping his party atop the lower chamber, which was reduced to just 218 — the exact number needed to form a majority — after the resignation of Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene and the sudden death of California’s Doug LaMalfa.
