President Donald Trump got into diversity and inclusion policies in the United States, hit NATO and the credit was attributed to build Saturday on Saturday in a campaign style start speech at the prestigious Military Academy of West Point in New York.
Trump, with a suit and its red author “Make America Great Again”, mixed tips to “work hard” with a list of its main complaints about cultural and political problems while talking with a stadium full of cadets, family and a multitude to a large extent of support.
“The work of the United States armed forces is not to organize drag shows, transform foreign cultures,” Trump said. “The work of the military is to dominate any enemy and annihilate any threat to the United States, anywhere, at any time, anywhere.”
Since he assumed the position for the second time in January, Trump has retreated the programs of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the army and throughout the government as part of a greater effort to terminate the policies promulgated by his predecessor, Joe Biden.
“We have released our troops from divisive and degrading political training,” Trump told the 1,002 cadets that graduate from the academy. “There will be no more critical or transgender race theory for all those forced to our brave men and women in uniform, or any other person in this country.”
Trump has been a great defender of the military, even when he has put his own seal, as he has done in other branches of the government. In February, he fired the then president of the Jefes of the Joint Chiefs, the General of the Air Force CQ Brown and expelled five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shaking of military leadership.
It was the second time that Trump was heading to the graduates of the academy on the Hudson River after its appearance in 2020 in the apogee of the Covid-19 Pandemia, when the cadets sat more apart and used masks to avoid the propagation of the virus.
West Point aims to educate the next generation of army leaders for an army that is destined to be apolitical and swear to defend the constitution of the United States.
In a speech full of partisan rhetoric on Saturday, Trump attributed the credit for the reconstruction of the army and made reference to his commercial war fueled with tariffs while repeating his former criticisms of the NATO allies for not spending more in defense.
“We have been scammed by all the nations of the world in commerce. We have been scammed at NATO level,” Trump said. “They have cheated us as if no country had been scammed, but they don’t scam us anymore.”
The President will preside over the celebration of the army of his 250 anniversary on June 14 with a parade on one of the main roads of Washington. The anniversary coincides with Trump’s own birthday.
This week, Trump spoke about an exclusive piece of his military vision, announcing that he had selected a design for the Golden Dome Dome Dome Defense Shield of $ 175 billion and appointed a general of the space force to direct the program aimed at blocking the threats of China and Russia. Trump said on Saturday that the shield would protect West Point.
Experts have said that Golden Dome could cause other states to launch similar systems or develop more advanced weapons to evade missile shield, climbing an arms race in space.
