NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—“God, I love that guy,” Kimberly Guilfoyle said to the crowded room at CPAC on Friday, referring to her boyfriend Donald Trump Jr. who was sneaking across the back of the stage, pumping his arms and hyping Guilfoyle to the crowd shortly after her introduction.\n
During her speech, Guilfoyle emphasized her origin story, reminding the crowd that her mother was Puerto Rican and her father was an Irish immigrant. He “came here legally, lawfully, not cutting the line,” she said. It’s a carefully constructed biography that omits important details—n
amely that prior to hopping on the Trump train she was married to then-mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom and served as the city’s First Lady. In a room full of people that exert an inordinate amount of energy booing socialism andbut it’s conveniently omitted. There’s not even a conversion story detailing how a San Francisco liberal saw the light.
ed skull; created entirely for the sole purpose of shouting about snowflakes and humanizing Trump Jr. On stage, Guilfoyle checked off the list of Trump enemies with ease. “The Squad. The Socialists. Let them run, let them run, baby. Nothing can stop the Trump train.” She warned that “establishment Democrats” might steal the election from “Comrade Bernie” and sang a line of “Big Spender” when she spoke about Michael Bloomberg. To Nancy Pelosi, Guilfoyle just said, “Bye Felicia.
In Guilfoyle’s estimation, all Democrats are leftists and all leftists are socialists and all socialists are waging a culture war. It wasn’t a particularly new framing but, at CPAC, Guilfoyle and the rest of the president’s most visible campaigners gave it new life, reworking it into the angry populism that pervades Trump’s campaign lingo. Beware, Guilfoyle warned, of the “leftist campaign to spin socialism as cool.” “Don’t,” she added, “be fooled by their cancel culture.
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