Trump addresses West Point graduates following DEI crackdown at military academies

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Source: ABC News

May 24, 2025, 6:04 AM


President Donald Trump spoke before this year's U.S. Military Academy graduates as their commencement speaker on Saturday amid the administration's crackdown on diversity initiatives and removal of key military leaders.

Trump addressed the crowd while wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat and brought a few graduates on the stage as he praised their achievements. The president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have called for major changes to military academies since assuming office as part of the administration's rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and these changes took center stage in Trump's speech.

In February, shortly after Hegseth was confirmed by the Senate, West Point disbanded several student clubs, including the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Women Engineers, the Latin Cultural Club and the Native American Heritage Forum.

The changes were made "in accordance with recent Presidential Executive Orders, Department of Defense guidance, and the Department of the Army guidance," according to a memo obtained by ABC News. Also in February, Trump, who avoided being drafted during the Vietnam War due to what he claimed were bone spurs, dismissed the boards of visitors of military academies, claiming without evidence that the schools were "infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-address-west-point-graduates-dei-crackdown/story?id=122116685

[wcmagumba]

1. Did he call them losers and suckers? Good job Bone Spurs...

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2. Kermit did it better.

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9. WATCH LIVE: Kermit the Frog delivers commencement speech at University of Maryland Video courtesy of University of Mary

you are right--the frog beats the trump!



WATCH LIVE: Kermit the Frog delivers commencement speech at University of Maryland

Video courtesy of University of Maryland

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[JohnSJ]

3. Why should I support a racist military, which is what it is under the current leadership.

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4. THIS IS DISGUSTING‼️ Wearing his pathetic campaign hat to the West Point graduation.

I agree!!



THIS IS DISGUSTING‼️

Wearing his pathetic campaign hat to the West Point graduation.

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[riversedge]

5. 'He has never looked more inappropriate in that cheap, tacky billboard of a hat. Pathetic'..........

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[riversedge]

6. Trump lectures West Point graduates on 'trophy wives' in commencement speech.

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7. Trump.....questions whether stealth aircraft are actually stealthy.

BREAKING: Trump delivers a Memorial Day Weekend speech at West Point… in a MAGA hat… and questions whether stealth aircraft are actually stealthy.

Because nothing honors the fallen quite like turning a military academy into a campaign rally and doubting 40 years of classified tech like it’s a QAnon thread.

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[riversedge]

8. Trump was droning on and on about how unfairly he is treated--BUT, that is NOT in official transcript.......

I woke up this morning, turned on CNN and Trump was droning on and on at WestPoint about how unfairly he was treated. However, I just read the official transcript and those comments are not there. So I deleted. I have to choose my battles you know because, TDS. 🤪

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10. "It's not a speech. It's a therapy session for a narcissist."

Deranged.
Trump hijacked a West Point graduation to ramble about trophy wives and yachts.
It’s not a speech. It’s a therapy session for a narcissist.

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[riversedge]

11. Trump: "The job of the U.S. Armed Forces..to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,"

Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the ‘great late’ Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address

President praised his administration’s efforts to end DEI programs and crack down on immigration while addressing West Point’s Class of 2025
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-west-point-address-dei-immigration-b2757275.html

Katie Hawkinson Saturday 24 May 2025 18:46 BST


..........The commander in chief of the U.S. military used his keynote address to highlight his efforts to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the country. He claimed to have “liberated our troops from divisive and demeaning political trainings,” and said there will be “no more critical race theory or transgender for everybody.”

Trump reads from his autocue at West Point. He diverted from his prepared remarks on several occasions
Trump reads from his autocue at West Point. He diverted from his prepared remarks on several occasions (AFP via Getty Images)

This follows his January executive order that sought to deny the existence of transgender, intersex and nonbinary people throughout government.

"The job of the U.S. Armed Forces is not to host drag shows to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” he said. “The military's job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America, anywhere, anytime and any place.”

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12. What about the foreign students at the academies? Threaten them, too?

Pull their visas? Give them 24-hours to leave the country?

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14. For now a Judge stopped it--but temporary-- It will end up in the SC for sure.

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13. Trump: The whole stealth thing--I'm sort of wondering. We shape a wing this way, they don't see it but the other way they

Trump: The whole stealth thing—I'm sort of wondering. We shape a wing this way, they don’t see it but the other way they see it? I’m not so sure.

Trump: The whole stealth thing—I'm sort of wondering. We shape a wing this way, they don’t see it but the other way they see it? I’m not so sure.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T16:57:23.771Z

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15. Questioning science is right on brand for TrumpCo.

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16. Photo: Trump arrives to deliver his commencement speech at West Point. The president discussed his efforts to end DEI pr

From the article.

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Trump arrives to deliver his commencement speech at West Point. The president discussed his efforts to end DEI programs and his crackdown on immigration (AP)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-west-point-address-dei-immigration-b2757275.html

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. I like POTUS who shakes the hands of each military academy graduate at a graduation cermony

trump gave a horrible speech and then left without shaking the hands of each graduate. Presidents Obama and Biden each took the time to shake the hand of each graduate

When President Obama spoke at the 2014 West Point commencement ceremony he shook the hand of every single graduate after his speech. Today, Donald Trump gave a speech while wearing a MAGA hat and then left without shaking any hands

— Marco Foster (@marcofoster.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T22:49:12.476Z

I like Presidents who don’t use West Point as a political prop.

— Protect Kamala Harris ✊ (@disavowtrump20.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T18:20:02.178Z

President Biden spent 70 minutes congratulating, saluting and shaking the hand of each one of the 1,036 West Point graduates, plus gave his speech, but it’s not worth any commentary by the media.
So you know he did well.

— LynneMcCartney (@lynnemccartney.bsky.social) 2024-05-27T04:01:20.959Z

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Trump has time to host a dinner for the rich crypto guys who bought his memecoin, but not to shake hands with West Point graduates. Priorities.

— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T20:51:34.012Z

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Good Grief! I have 2 cousins who are West Point graduates, and one of them is female

And she comes from the Irish side of my family, all lifelong Democrats. And he is married to a wife who works at the Pentagon, was there on 9/11 and would fit in well here. I can't imagine what either of them think.