Jen Psaki

You can see Borders are Tom Homan and right wing media figures like Steve Bannon.

Heck, you can even see Trump pardoned seditionist and Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio there.

Seen here, palling around with adjudicated liar and disgraced former Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino.

Taking a little thumbs up photo together there.

The MAGA fever dream that is CPAC, everyone.

That is what it is.

But I have to say, things do feel a little different this year.

Part of that is probably because Donald Trump himself, who hasn't missed CPAC in a decade, isn't planning on attending.

He's going to be hunkered down at Mar-a-Lago this weekend instead, which is a little surprising given his CPAC attendance record.

And given the fact that he rarely misses an opportunity to have a room full of his cult followers clap for him.

According to MSNOW reporter Rosa Flores, Trump's absence is part of the reason why the halls have been emptier.

But even setting aside the fact that Trump's not planning on going, the CPAC crowd has been a little, well, off this year.

I mean, take a look at what I mean.

Yikes, that did not go as Matt Schlatt planned.

They got that one wrong by MAGA standards twice.

Now, whether that's an under-caffeinated crowd or whatever happened to you there, during this year, CPAC MAGA world is obviously not 100% on the same page on a few issues, and probably none of them are bigger than Trump's war with Iran.

One young Trump voter told the Washington Post, he ran on no new wars, there's a new war.

He ran on making stuff affordable, stuff's less affordable.

I'm less than pleased.

That voter even went as far to say as to say, I'm considering not voting in the midterms.