President Trump to Address Heritage Foundation for First Time Since First Year in Office

Former President Donald Trump will address a Heritage Foundation gathering on April 21, the first time he has addressed the group since his first year in office.
“We need bold leaders who speak candidly, and President Trump is unafraid to do so—even as Big Tech and the media attempt to silence him,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts said, announcing the event. “We’re grateful that he will join us in Florida to discuss the significant issues facing our country and pinpoint the failures of the Biden-Harris regime.”
The relationship between the group and the former president was good, but not great, during his presidency. Many Heritage scholars filled Trump administration roles, unlike other conservative think tanks that declined to provide personnel or even worked against the administration, but the group’s policy agenda had been stuck in a previous generation of conservative thought. When it came to Trump’s push for deregulation, Supreme Court picks, tax cuts, and energy production, they worked well together. But on Big Tech, China, and other issues important to the growing new conservative coalition, the policy support was absent or even unhelpful.