“You are winners, every single one of you,” the 78-year-old commander in chief told the 1,002 graduating cadets, who are becoming second lieutenants in the Army. “You are the first West Point graduates of the Golden Age of America.”
He quickly turned to a blistering attack on prior presidents without naming them.
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“For at least two decades, political leaders from both parties have dragged our military into missions it was never meant to be [in]. People would say, ‘Why are we doing this? Why are we wasting our time, money and souls in some case?'” Trump said.
“They sent our warriors on nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us, led by leaders who didn’t have a clue in distant lands while abusing our soldiers with absurd ideological experiments.”
“All of that is ended,” he declared.
“They subjected the armed forces to all manner of social projects and political causes while leaving our borders undefended and depleting our arsenals to fight other countries’ wars.
“But under the Trump administration, those days are over. We’re getting rid of the distractions and focusing our military on its core mission: crushing America’s adversaries, killing America’s enemies and defending our great American flag,” he said.
“The job of the US armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures or to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of the gun. The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America anywhere anytime and anyplace.”
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