The RNCs winter meeting was held last week from Tuesday to Friday at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island. Sparse press reports indicate a curious chain of events: (1) The RNC cancelled Trump’s Thursday’s keynote video address to the meeting on or before Thursday morning, and (2) Trump called into a member’s only breakfast at the meeting on Thursday morning where he said that he learned about the cancellation of his keynote address from the media (perhaps part of the pattern where no one informs him of bad news). Trump likely “crashed” the breakfast uninvited but they apparently put him on speaker phone and greeted him with cheers.
For anyone fact checking me, the Independent has a headline saying Trump cancelled the address but in the body of the story it says they cancelled him.
The RNC still (mostly) loves Trump, but apparently having him speak has become one of those guilty pleasures that you don’t want to enjoy publicly on Zoom.