Demonstrators contrary to Trump's message to West Point's graduate cadets

During his speech on Saturday, President Donald Trump wore a Red American great again to make cadets at the US military academy and recalled topics of patriotism, strength and military power.

“We put America in the first place,” Trump told West Point's class from 2025. “We have to rebuild and defend our nation.”

On the other side of the Hudson River in Garrison, the stone towers of the academy, which served as a backdrop, anti-trump demonstrators have with the help of Woody Guthries “This Land is Your Land” and “America the Beautiful”.

They pulled American flags and signs off with a portrait of George Washington, whose continental army was not far away in one place during the American Revolution. “This man saved America from a tyrant. No more tyrants!” She read.

Baila Lemonik's faded pink hat, which was occupied by a button about a button “not my president”, was her answer to Trump's Maga Cap.

“We don't particularly care about the current administration in Washington because they don't take care of us,” said Lemonik from Mahopac, a head of the Putnam Progressive group.

Trump, she suggested, had kidnapped the real importance of patriotism for his own political profit. She and the others who gathered at Garrison Landing on Saturday were there to take it back.

“We are patriots because we take care of people,” added Lemonik. “This is what you do. If someone doesn't have anything you help to get them … He takes away people's health. People will die.”

Trump's speech to the end of the West Point inspired, like his first in 2020, spirited and peaceful protests on both sides of Hudson's Saturday.

Protest outside the academy

Before the Thayer Gate greeting participant of the academy until the morning conclusion, there were dozens of demonstrators who wore signs who offered a different view of the well -known assembly of the army for his competitions with the rival of the US Naval Academy.

“Go Army, Beat Fascism” and “Go Army, Beat Tyranny”, read.

“We support our corps of the cadets and the graduates from West Point and try to let people know who will come here to support them, but we do not support the president,” said Laurie Tauutel, a democrat and a legislator of Orange County.

“This is our river”

At Garrison Landing, a small flotilla from kayaks drove the coast, which accompanies anti-trump signs, accompanied by the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. On the other side of the river, a boat of the coast guard kept along the coast of the Academy west of the Hudson.

“This is our river,” said Trisha Mulligan from Garrison. “We try to take it back … The Maga has contested the flag and changed its meaning, and so we try to bring it back.”

The organizer Peter Bynum said that Trump had presented the principles of democracy and the rule of law, the Washington and the founders of the nation.

“What a slap in the face for patriots,” said Bynum.

Karen Freede, a retired teacher from Putnam Valley, said she was protested on Saturday because she fears for the future of the country.

“Our president doesn't do his job,” said Freede. “He is not for people. He works very hard for himself and his branding. He wants to be a dictator.”

Thomas C. Zambito covers the New York State team of the USA Today Network with energy, transport and economic growth. He won dozens of state and national writing prices from Associated Press, investigative reporters and editors, the deadline club and others in a decades of career, which included the New York Daily News, the Star Ledger from Newark and the record of Hackensack Stops. It can be reached at tzambito@lohud.com.

Protest outside the academy

“This is our river”

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