When Donald Trump Jr. took center stage at Colorado State University’s Center for the Arts on Tuesday, he danced on the edge of political correctness.

Before an audience of conservative college students at the free ticketed event in Fort Collins, the president’s son talked up his father, aired family grievances and avoided any direct talk of the impeachment proceedings or entanglements in foreign affairs. 

The younger Trump also aired conservative grievances on Jussie Smollett, Brett Kavanaugh and the Covington Catholic students.

“You’re never woke enough,” he said. Near the end of the evening, he piled on, “It’s the ones who are the most woke, they look like they’re just miserable people, because there’s always something to be outraged about.”

After making a wisecrack about the Lincoln assassination, Trump assured the audience he had said worse.

“I could be the nicest guy in the world and the press will destroy me anyway,” he said. “The difference is, we just don’t care. Unlike Mitt Romney, we’re not trying to make friends in the media who hate our guts.”

Romney has been critical of the president’s handling of affairs with Ukraine, the subject of the impeachment inquiry in the U.S. House.

The event was put on by the conservative student advocacy group Turning Point USA.

“Culture War” also featured Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, as well as Charlie Kirk, the founder and executive director of Turning Point USA.

The last time Kirk spoke at CSU in February 2018, protesters clashed and altercations ensued outside after the program called “Smashing Socialism.” The protests included representatives of the Young Democratic Socialists of America, Antifa and white nationalist groups, according to the school newspaper, The Rocky Mountain Collegian.

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In his speech Tuesday night, Kirk immediately took exception with CSU President Joyce McConnell, who in a memo Friday seemed to link an incident over a social media photo of students in blackface and swastikas being found on public places on campus with Tuesday night’s event.

“If your president had any idea what she was talking about she would know I’m an ally against that hateful ideology, not some sort of adversary,” Kirk said.

Protesters gathered outside CSU’s University Center for the Arts before the 7 p.m. event Tuesday night, the Fort Collins Coloradoan reported. Protesters marched, shouting things such as “No Trump, no KKK” and carried signs like “love trumps hate.” Some were from the Young Democratic Socialists club at CSU, tweeted 9News’ Marc Sallinger.

Kirk said Turning Point USA could have filled a much larger facility than the arts center.

“There’s a huge amount of interest for conservative ideas on college campuses,” he said.

Tuesday night’s stop in Fort Collins with the president’s son was part of an eight-campus national tour, which was at Grand Canyon University in Arizona Monday night and moves on to the University of Iowa Wednesday night.

Colorado Democratic Party spokesman David Pourshoushtari put out a statement Tuesday afternoon.

“No amount of gaslighting or straight-up lying tonight from Don Jr. can cover up that his father is the most divisive and corrupt president in modern history, and that his policies have made him even more disliked in Colorado than the Oakland Raiders,” Pourshoushtari said. “Whether it’s his massive tax giveaway to the ultra wealthy and big banks, his relentless assault on people’s healthcare, or his reckless trade war that is hurting our farmers’ livelihoods, Donald Trump has shown why Colorado was right to reject him in 2016 and will reject him again in 2020.”

Kirk is a regular each summer at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver.

Turning Point USA has high school and college chapters across the country, and some of them, including the group at the University of Colorado, called for the resignation of communications director and prominent media figure Candace Owens. 

“If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well – OK, fine,” Owens said in a speech in London in December. “The problem is he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German.”

Owens left the organization in May to write a book, “Blackout,” to be released next February.