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President Donald Trump delivered the commencement address at West Point on Saturday and gave a cry for the “first -class athletes” at school.
“I love sporting things. What you’ve done is pretty amazing,” Trump said, before highlighting the gentlemen’s lacrosse team.
“Last year, for the first time ever, Army Lacrosse became # 1-ranked men’s lacrosse teams across the country. It’s also a tough sport.”
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President Donald Trump arrives to keep the start of the US Military Academy Master’s Collect Cadets in West Point, Ny, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Trump then turned to the football team, which was nationally ranked earlier this year.
“Your second year, Army Football Beat Navy, 20-17, and the next year you did it again, beat Navy, 17-11, and dominated the Air Force, 23-3,” Trump continued. “But this year, the black knights fought you into the top 20 nationally and got your longest winning streak up since 1949 using the training of quarterback -cadet Bryson daily, or as you call him, Captain America. I came to a game. I said, ‘He could get into the NFL.’ But he chose this life.
Trump then asked daily to approach the stage and say a few words.
“Go army football. … can’t wait to study. Love you,” he said.
Army Quarterback Bryson Daily (13) runs with the ball during the first half of a game against Tulane 6 December 2024, in West Point, New (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
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“I just knocked on his shoulder. It’s as if I hit a piece of steel. The guy is in good shape,” Trump said when left the scene daily. “There’s always a reason for success. In a time when other top college -quarterbacks were thinking about going pro, Bryson’s mind was on something else. He told an interviewer earlier this year, ‘I’m focused on my career as an infantry officer.’ That’s what he wants to do.
Trump gave a speech to the Alabama candidates earlier this month and highlighted their team and former head football coach Nick Saban.
Trump told the 1,002 who candidates that the academy is the “most elite and the great military academy in human history.”
President Donald Trump goes on the field before addressing candidates from the US Military Academy at West Point at Michie Stadium 24 May 2025 in West Point, New (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Trump skewed against previous foreign policy initiatives. And he declared an end to critical race theory, dei initiatives and men in women’s sports while promising to promote a return to credit-based systems and traditional military values.
