During his commencement address at West Point, President Trump praised the graduating cadets and highlighted his military accomplishments. He asserted that under his leadership, the U.S. Army was significantly rebuilt and emphasized a return to fundamental military priorities—"crushing America's adversaries" while rejecting what he called distractions, such as social projects and political ideologies. Trump criticized previous administrations for engaging in nation-building and introducing divisive social policies, asserting that the current military focus would be on defense rather than cultural transformation.
And I know, because I rebuilt that army, and I rebuilt the military. And we rebuilt it like nobody has ever rebuilt it before in my first term.
We're getting rid of distractions and we're focusing our military on its core mission: crushing America's adversaries, killing America's enemies and defending our great American flag like it has never been defended before.
The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows or transform foreign cultures.
Past administrations, he said, subjected the armed forces to all manner of social projects and political causes while leaving our borders undefended.
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