Is the Military Turning Its Back on Trump?
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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Because of the pandemic, graduation at West Point was always going to be bizarre this year. |
| 0:35.8 | It's been bizarre everywhere. |
| 0:39.4 | Some schools of stage drive-through graduations, others have gone online. |
| 0:44.1 | But West Point was the only university that forced its graduates to return to campus, |
| 0:49.6 | quarantined themselves for two weeks, and then sit for a ceremony that none of their |
| 0:54.2 | friends or family could attend, all in order to watch a half-hour speech from the president. |
| 1:01.2 | The heads of the army had begged the president to look, don't do this. |
| 1:09.2 | Slate's Fred Kaplan watched the whole thing over the weekend. |
| 1:12.4 | The other academies they had virtual ceremonies were fine on doing that. |
| 1:16.6 | He insisted on it. |
| 1:17.6 | He'd never spoken at West Point before. |
| 1:20.2 | Clearly, he wanted, he wanted, the great. |
| 1:23.8 | Photo up. |
| 1:27.9 | So the West Point band played from behind Plexiglas, and nearly a thousand newly minted officers |
| 1:35.2 | sat on chair's position six feet apart. |
| 1:37.9 | Yeah, they walked in with masks and then they took them off. |
| 1:42.0 | I guess, out of respect to the president who doesn't like masks. |
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