Donald Trump snubs Liz Truss as he provides gushing shoutout to Nigel Farage in CPAC speech

Donald Trump snubbed Liz Truss in a speech to US conservative conference – despite giving a shout out to Nigel Farage.

Speaking at the right-wing CPAC conference near Washington DC, Trump blamed Joe Biden for Russia invading Ukraine and made racist jibes about Democrat politicians. All the while, violent thugs he pardoned for their role in the January 6th insurrection chanted from the back of the hall.

The US President told the crowd Mr Farage, who spoke at the same CPAC event on Thursday, was a “great friend” who “took the UK by storm”. But Liz Truss, who spoke at the conference on the same day, did not get a shout out.

The US President addressed a crowd of thousands at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbour, Maryland, on the outskirts of the capital.

At the back of the hall, a large, rowdy group of people who had been jailed and prosecuted for taking part in the attempted insurrection on January 6, 2021 shouted and chanted, seeking to catch the President’s ear for a shout out.

“J6! J6! J6!” they chanted, but the President did not mention them. And the President drew loud cheers and laughter from the crowd as he attacked his predecessor, Joe Biden. “Every single thing he touched turned to s**t, OK?” he said.

Trump returned to his racist attack on democrat Elizabeth Warren, who is part Native American, branding her “Pocahontas”.

And Trump again claimed Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he’d been in the Oval Office.

“There was no way Russia was going to go in” if he had been President, he claimed. “And they went in for a lot of reasons.”

He said: “I’m dealing with President Zelensky, I’m dealing with President Putin. “Europe gave $100m. America gave $350m. I’m trying to get the money back. $350m, because we had a stupid administration.”

He went on: “It affects Europe. It doesn’t affect us…how come we went so far out front? We’re going to get our money back because it’s not fair. I think we’re pretty close to a deal, and we’d better be close to a deal.”