Thousands showed up for the first night of Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) annual AmericaFest Thursday evening in downtown Phoenix, in a festive mood celebrating Donald Trump’s presidential election win. The annual weekend event every December at the Phoenix Convention Center features talks by the top names in the conservative movement, with the biggest ones participating the first evening: TPUSA CEO and founder Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, and Steve Bannon.
Kirk opened the event discussing how the MAGA movement has grown, especially on college campuses, which his youthful organization focuses on. He said people were afraid to wear MAGA hats in 2016, but now he visits campuses where everyone wants them. He said they handed out 5,000 hats at the University of Georgia recently.
“All of you guys went from a symbol of ‘these people are terrible Nazis’ to the coolest, most desirable thing that one can wear in American politics,” he said. “It became a symbol of American masculinity coming back into our culture.”
He joked about how Trump made a deal over the summer, “the greatest deal maker that politics has ever seen,” trading Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger to the Democrats in exchange for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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