Trump, West Point and Commencement Speech
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When Trump last spoke at the U.S. Military Academy, the institution was reckoning with racial justice protests sweeping the country. Now, he is taking credit for ridding the military of “social experiments.
President Donald Trump ripped U.S. diversity and inclusion policies, knocked NATO, and took credit for building up the military on Saturday in a campaign-style commencement speech at the prestigious West Point Military Academy in New York.
Cadets at West Point are used to having their bodies, minds and spirits tested. Right now, school officials are also in a crucible of sorts, under new scrutiny as Trump administration orders impact the United States Military Academy.
The cadets graduating Saturday from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point spent four years studying strategy, ethics and the art of leadership. They march past statues of battlefield giants, memorize the lessons of Antietam and Afghanistan and are steeped in stories of courage drawn from the long arc of American military history.
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