Trump Hauert West Point cadets for their services

West Point, NY (AP) – President Donald Trump used the first military opening speech of his second term to congratulate the West Point cadets on Saturday on their academic and physical achievements and at the same time owe military power in America.

“In a few moments, they will graduates from the elite and the most famous military academy in human history,” said Trump at the ceremony in the Michie Stadium. “And they become officers of the largest and most powerful army that the world has ever known. And I know because I rebuilt this army and I rebuilt the military. And we have rebuilt it as if nobody had rebuilt it in my first term.”

The Republican President wore a red hat “Make America Great Again”. At one point during the speech, Trump called a cadet on stage, Chris Verdugo, and found that he completed an 18.5 mile march in an icy night in January in just two hours and 30 minutes.

Before the campus, about three dozen demonstrators gathered before the ceremony and blew the American miniature flags. One in the crowd wore a sign with the inscription “Support of our veterans” and “Stop the cuts”, while other plastic buckets kept with the message: “Go Army Beat Fascism”.

Trump held the speech to West Point in 2020 during the height of the Covid 19 pandemic. He pushed the graduate cadets Never forget the soldiers who had a war against slavery during his statements that the nation expect with their history after the breed Murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Trump also paid tribute to the history of the military academy and its famous graduates, including Douglas Macarthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The ceremony five years ago examination Because the US military academy forced the graduates who were at home because of Covid-19 to return to an area near a Pandemic hotspot.

Trump traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama at the beginning of this month, to speak to the final class of the University of Alabama. Mixed his remarks The standard opening price and advice with political attacks against his predecessor, the democrat Joe Biden, about considerations about transgender athletes and lies about the 2020 elections.

On Friday, Vice President JD Vance spoke to the final class of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Vance said in his comments That Trump works to ensure that US soldiers are used with clear goals than with the “undefined missions” and “open conflicts” of the past.

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Swenson reported from Bridgewater, New Jersey.