Posted on 05/26/2018 9:35:09 AM PDT by rktman
President Donald Trump gave a speech to the graduates of the Naval Academy Friday morning. Then, the president went a step further, offering to shake the hands of every single graduate — more than 1,000 midshipmen.
“I was given an option. I could make this commencement address, which is a great honor for me, and immediately leave and wave goodbye. Or I could stay and shake hands with just the top 100,” Trump said, “Or I could stay for hours and shake hands with 1,100 and something. What should I do? What should I do?”
Trump then shouted, “Stay! Ok, I’ll stay.”
C-SPAN cameras stayed on the president as he shook the hands of hundreds of cadets. The looks on their faces say it all.
In the speech, Trump referenced that his administration is “taking care of our veterans.”
“We passed V.A. Accountability. Everybody said it couldn’t be done,” Trump said, “That’s if you don’t do a good job, you couldn’t get fired. Now, if you don’t do a good job, you don’t take care of our vets, they look at you right in the eye and they say, ‘Jim, you’re fired. Out, out! You’re fired. Get them out of there.'”
The audience of future veterans loved it.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Truly Reaganesque!
We got far more than a good deal....we got ‘freedom’ fro the chains of Obama!......check, check, check, check,...off they go!
“We got a damn good deal in November of 2016.”
That’s one of the best statements I have heard about Trump!
GWB vowed “no more Vietnams”; did he deliver?
“It has to have McCain seething to see The President be so loved at his Alma Mater.”
I’m wondering if they’ve ever been successful in getting “McCain’s Stench” out of his room there. “John Mc Cain Slept Here” is not a sign I’d like to see on my room.
Dubya also shook each Mid's hand at USNA graduation that he spoke, and presumably, at other service academies when he did those (in a rotation, one academy per year).
I suspect that it's been done w other presidents, as well. The Military historians among us and enlighten us farther.
No doubt someone will steer us “right”.
President Trump is amazing. I’m so proud of him.
Amen!
Did he?....or was it the first 100?
Thanks for your post, I missed it also. Can anyone tell me why some of the cadets had navy blue jackets on instead of dress whites? Thanks
Congratulations graduates. HOORAY Mr. President.
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Never been a President like this in modern American history.
Bush loved and loves the military, if I recall well.
Then he should have stayed far away from a decades long “Compassionate war” which looted multiple trillions of the American treasure.
I read did even Obama did this. At Harvard. I don’t know if it is true, I simply read it on the Internet.
[bkmk]
My thoughts exactly!!!
Give Steelfish a ping.
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