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🗓️ 27 May 2025
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0:00.0 | May 26, 2025. |
0:09.0 | President Donald J. Trump's erratic behavior was on display this weekend in two public speeches, |
0:16.0 | one to this year's graduates at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and the other at Arlington National |
0:22.3 | Cemetery. While both speeches are traditionally nonpartisan, Trump indicated he would make them |
0:29.1 | partisan when he wore a red MAGA hat at West Point. The president began both speeches by sticking |
0:35.8 | to a script, but then veered off course. |
0:38.3 | At West Point on Saturday, his speech went on for over an hour. |
0:42.3 | He attacked diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and said, |
0:47.3 | the job of the U.S. Armed Forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, |
0:53.3 | or to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun, he said. |
0:58.9 | The military's job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America, anywhere, any time, and any place. |
1:08.8 | In fact, the mission of the Department of Defense is to provide the military |
1:13.7 | forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security. Trump veered off into immigration |
1:20.8 | and a chat about golf, then repeated a story about William Levitt, a real estate developer whose |
1:26.2 | post-World War II housing developments |
1:28.5 | became synonymous with suburbia, that he had told at a 2017 Boy Scout jamboree. |
1:35.1 | On Saturday, Trump talked about Levitt becoming very rich, a very rich man, and then he decided to sell. |
1:42.0 | And he sold his company, and he had nothing to do. |
1:44.8 | He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. |
1:47.7 | Could you say a trophy wife? |
1:49.1 | I guess we can say a trophy wife. |
1:50.9 | It didn't work out too well, but it doesn't, |
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