May 24, 2025
To the media’s horror, Trump delivered a pro-American, pro-military, pro-norms speech at West Point
By Andrea Widburg
A year ago, Joe Biden’s speech at West Point celebrated the American military’s service to other countries. Today, President Trump delivered a speech that made clear that American military exists to serve America, and that it cannot be weakened by woke ideas. The drive-by media were appropriately horrified.
You can read the entire Biden speech here, but the key part, to my mind, was his boasting about what the American military does...for other countries:
The U.S. military is supporting Ukraine.
The U.S. military is opposing Putin, whom Biden put in his place when they met in Switzerland (doubtful).
The U.S. military built a pier in the Mediterranean. (That pier lasted 20 days, killed one service member, and injured 62 others, all at a cost of $230-320 million.)
A consortium of nations led by a West Point general helped Israel repel an Iranian attack.
The U.S. has put together alliances in the South Pacific, although Biden never explained why this matters. (Presumably to fend off China’s depredations in those waters.)
As an afterthought, Biden added that the U.S. struck Iran-backed militants after they successfully killed three members of the Army reserve in Jordan, and that, for the first time in a decade, rates of sexual assault and harassment declined.
Donald Trump had a different take when he gave his speech, which can be summed up with this 30-second clip (and do note his “Make America Great Again” hat, which is entirely realistic for those who are prepared to give their lives to America):
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