Trump’s West Point’s graduation address is the doctrine of politics to politics | Donald Trump
Donald Trump told the Cadets of the West Point Military Academy on Saturday that they entered the officers’ body at a “decisive moment in the history of the army”, in a beginning of the beginning which included political attacks and a speech on the madness of older men marrying “women trophies”.
Referring to American political leaders of the last two decades who “had trained our soldiers in missions” that people questioned as “to lose our time, our money and our souls in one case”, Trump told young leaders as “as much as you want to fight, I prefer to do it without having to fight”. He predicted that, thanks to a policy of “peace by force”, the opponents of the United States would retreat. “I just want to watch them and make them bend,” he said.
The president also said that the American soldiers had been sent “to national construction crusades to the nations who wanted to have nothing to do with us, led by leaders who had no idea of the distant land while abusing our soldiers with absurd ideological experiences here and at home”.
“All this is over, highly finished. They are no longer allowed to think about it,” added Trump.
Make an apparent reference to diversity, actions and inclusion programs that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, canceled Trump together the criticism of his predecessors with a new emphasis on the reduction of illegal immigration.
“They submitted the armed forces to all kinds of social projects and political causes, while leaving our defenseless borders and exhausting our arsenals to fight the wars of other countries. We have fought for the borders of other countries, but we have not fought for our own borders, but now we are doing as we have never fought before, “he said.
He later said that “the work of the American armed forces is not to host dredging programs or to transform foreign cultures”, a reference to dredging emissions on military bases that his predecessor Joe Biden arrested in 2023 after republican criticism.
Dressed in a red campaign hat “Make America Great Again” throughout, the president told the 1,002 graduate cadets that the United States was the “hottest country in the world” and boasted of the achievements of his administration.
The president also returned, once again, to an edifying story, he often tells young people the danger of losing momentum in life, illustrated by an anecdote on what he called the unhappy retirement of the post-war Housing William Levitt, the creator of Levittowns, communities planned on Long Island, New Jersylvania.
Repeating a story he told in a Boy Scout jamboree in 2017, and at the University of Alabama three weeks ago, the president declared that Levitt was dissatisfied with life without work, even if he married “a woman trophy” and had bought a yacht. “It didn’t work too well, and it doesn’t work too well, I have to tell you, a lot of trophies, it doesn’t work,” the president told young women and men. “But that made him happy for a while at least.”
Trump also used the opportunity to repeat an unfounded accusation that he first made in 2020: the statement that Russia had stolen American hypersonic missile technology during the presidency of Barack Obama. “The Russians have stolen it, something bad happened. But we are building them now, many of them,” said Trump, praising eight cadets who had built theirs. “We are building them right now. We had ours fly. We are the designers. We made it fly during the Obama administration. ”
Apart from the doors of West Point, the demonstrators gathered with drums, banners and signs to condemn what they called the president’s attack on American democracy.
At the moments of Trump’s address, he turned between the graduate military cadets and maintaining political criticism from the Biden administration.
The graduation address, which lasted almost an hour, passes in front of a vast military parade in Washington on June 14 to celebrate the celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary. The date is also the president’s anniversary.
In addition to the military parade with more than 6,700 soldiers, he will include concerts, fireworks, NFL players, fitness competitions and exhibitions throughout the National Mall for one day festivities. The army expects up to 200,000 people to be able to attend and that the celebration will cost around $ 25 million to $ 45 million.
The Associated Press contributed the reports
