The president said the graduating cadets would enter a service no longer subject to “absurd ideological experiments” or “nation-building crusades.”

Speaking to the graduating class at West Point Military Academy, President Donald Trump said, “you are the first West Point graduates of the Golden Age of America. . . .and you are going to lead the [United States] Army to summits of greatness that [it] has never reached before.

The last time President Trump gave a speech at the U.S. Military Academy came amid nationwide reckoning following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.