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President Donald Trump Addresses the West Point Class of 2025

Name: President Donald Trump Addresses the West Point Class of 2025
Uploaded: 2025-05-24T16:59:21+00:00
Duration: 1 min 20 s
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Description: This is a transcript excerpt of President Donald Trump’s commencement address to the United States Military Academy at West Point (Class of 2025). In…

24 May 2025 · 1 min

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This is a transcript excerpt of President Donald Trump’s commencement address to the United States Military Academy at West Point (Class of 2025). In this opening passage Trump congratulates the cadets on graduating and receiving commissions as second lieutenants, frames West Point as the nation’s most storied military academy, and invokes a lineage of historical U.S. military leaders (Grant, Pershing, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton, Schwarzkopf) and the ceremonial phrase “The Long Gray Line.”

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Every cadet on the field before me should savor this morning. Because this is a day that you will never, ever forget. In a few moments, you will become graduates of the most elite and storied military academy in human history. And you will become officers in the greatest and most powerful army the world has ever known. You receive your commissions as second lieutenants. Each of you continues down the same hallowed path, walked by titans and legends of US Military law. Giants like Ulysses S. Grant, John Blackjack Pershing, Dwight David Eisenhower. The one and only Douglas MacArthur. Old blood and Guts, George Patton and Norman Schwarzkopf. All great. So many more. They, and countless other patriots before you have walked out of these halls and straight into history. And today, you officially joined those immortal heroes in a proud ranks of. The Long Gray Line. You know that term? So beautiful. The Long Gray Line.