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- Every year, CPAC brings together all the brightest minds
and sales people in the conservative world.
And with the world careening from crisis to crisis,
I've come to Orlando to find out
where their movement is going
and brace myself for what's to come.
People are asking the question who the future
of the Republican party is.
- Trump.
- It's Trump.
- Trump is the Republican party.
CPAC is Trump.
- I'm here to support the greatest president ever,
Donald J. Trump
- Donald J. Trump is the greatest president ever?
- Hundred percent.
- If you look at the Trump administration
on paper as a report card, it was stellar.
It just was.
- In what sense? - The numbers.
- The economy down.
- The economy.
Well, I'm talking about before the COVID economic collapse.
- We don't count the whole term.
We can cherry pick numbers that make him look like
a fantastic president.
Why are you so obsessed with Trump?
- I like how he's funny.
He's just funny.
- How's he funny to you?
- The 2015 debate.
He was like (indistinct) little Marco.
You're fat, you're stupid.
I just loved it.
I felt like his personality was my personality.
- He has like a 15 year old sense of humor.
- Exactly, but that is, I love that.
- So you wanted a 15 year old as president, you got one.
- A hundred percent.
- Clearly, this was still Trump's party,
but this trip wasn't about R and R.
Is this what I think it is?
It's a Trump sex swing?
Or S and M.
That's nice.
And then you get somebody, then it's like this.
It's about the GOP and their party's plan
to tackle the issues that face America.
- They want to destroy the neutral family.
- Who does?
- The left, the Democratic party.
You can't use the words, mother, father.
- Am I gonna get in trouble
if I use the word mother or father?
- They'll try to correct you.
- What do you think of the trans issue right now?
That seems to be a big talking point here.
- I don't think it should be indoctrinated into kids.
- Indoctrinated? In what way?
- Indoctrinated in what way?
Putting trans flags in elementary kids' schools rooms
because they're pretty colors.
- Those flags, they offend you?
- They don't offend me.
I think they cause problems for young people.
- To see a flag like that in their school.
- No, to have colors like that
and then associating it to something else.
- What are the colors?
I actually don't even think I know the colors.
- Neither do I.
- But they're pretty offensive.
- They're colorful, and kids like colors.
- But even though the theme of CPAC was the culture war,
what about the war war?
Whose fault is what's happening in Ukraine right now?
- Well, of course it's Biden's fault.
He didn't do anything to protect the nation,
to protect those people.
- When you look at what happened between Russia and Ukraine,
you have to point the finger
at the leader of the United States of America.
- Of course you have to.
- Biden helped make Ukraine so important
by all the dealings that they were doing in it.
- How should a leader handle someone like Vladimir Putin?
- Peace through strength.
What do you think about Donald Trump
when he called Vladimir Putin a genius?
Was that him being tough?
- I think he has a way of playing with words.
- Yeah, definitely like saying the opposite
of what a patriot would say.
- And then he gets the media riled up.
- He disregards his own intelligence community
and instead he kisses the ass of Vladimir Putin,
but that's him just being smart.
- Being a wise guy.
- He's being a wise guy.
The MAGA crowds' obsessions were predictable.
Is this a little much?
But there was a new infatuation I was surprised to hear
because for the first time at CPAC,
people were applauding another country.
- Hungary's on the forefront.
- When you see people like leaders in Hungary
talking and speaking the way that Donald Trump did
when he was in office, it inspires me.
- I think Hungary is a positive example
about how being a confident conservative
can really do wonderful things for a country.
- That's right, conservatives here
were looking for inspiration from Hungary,
the central European country
that's been steadily sliding away
from democracy under its right wing leader, Victor Orban.
Trump has endorsed Orban twice,
and Tucker Carlson and has done a week of shows
and a special about Hungary.
- It's not my job to defend Hungary,
only to learn from it as an American
and try and hold up the lessons for us to emulate.
- [Jordan] CPAC is doing a special event
from Hungary in May,
and there are even conservative speakers
from Hungary here in Orlando.
- God bless you, God bless America, God bless Hungary,
and of course let's go Brandon.
- So I decided to pack a backpack full of rapid tests
and Trevor's Amex card
to finger the pulse international style.
I arrived in beautiful Budapest to find out
how similar these two movements really are.
What do you think about what's happening with Ukraine?
- What's happened there, it's not Putin's fault.
- If it's not Putin's fault, is it Biden's fault?
- You can put this question for Biden's son.
How much million trillion dollars invested in Ukraine?
- This makes me feel at home.
I gotta say.
Yep, there is a lot here to unpack
and I did in my new half hour special.
(people chanting)
Lock her up.
I thought I heard lock her up.
If you want equality, hit the road, Jack.
- I think yes.
- I ask all the hard hitting questions.
What is Hungarian for ass licking?
(woman speaks Hungarian)
- Shagnalo - Shagnalo.
We have Shagnalo in America too.
And I investigate the GOP's obsession
with this barely democratic democracy.
- Only chance for us is to band together.
- It's like "Suicide Squad."
Did you see "Suicide Squad?"
- Yeah, of course I did.
- Actually I did.
Is it like "Suicide Squad?"
- No.
- No. Shit.
So the government knows all your contacts?
- And has access to all my messages
- Tune in April 21st.
Ah, awful.
- Awful. I told you.
- Yeah.
Hold on one second.
(phone smashes)
You don't happen to know my wife's phone number, do you?
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