Donald Trump ranted to a captive audience of graduating West Point cadets about military drag shows, urging the students to focus on killing America’s enemies.
“The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” the president said. “The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America anywhere, anytime, and anyplace.”
While college commencement addresses are usually a chance to celebrate the graduates’ achievements, the more than a thousand West Point cadets and their families were treated to a recounting of Trump’s war on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the military.
unhinged dictator gives bigoted speech to bigoted graduates hoping to become war criminals some day.
news at 11.
So the transcript is incorrect. I just listened to the audio to confirm. He did not say “The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun”. He said "“The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, or to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun”. It entirely changes the meaning of that sentence. Fuck Trump, but let’s make sure that information is correct before jumping on it.
And a plurality of the nation still think he’s a brilliant, capable business wizard?
Not just sad but #FuckingSad
I bet that ceremony show became a drag. Or Trump wouldn’t have worn makeup.
Trump loves men hence the insecurity around drag
Weird. I thought the military’s job was to deter war through a readiness to fight.
I mean, on paper and during recruiting maybe, but not really.
I loved how he kept calling people up to congratulate for records, and he’d let them speak and they all said “I love my friends” and stepped down. You could see him taken aback, like he thought they were going to glaze him
It was also wild to see him start out giving a normal commencement speech… Then suddenly it was like the meds wore off, he froze for a second, and he just started doing his normal rants. And that was like a quarter of the way in
“The job of the U.S. armed forces is… to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,”
You can start at home.
yep he’s still a moron
“Spread democracy at the point of a gun”
Let’s be clear that THAT’S the bigger takeaway here.
Edit: it seems to be that he meant that they would no longer spread democracy at the point of a gun
A USA today article seems to dispute this slightly. It’s a minor tweak but in the sake of fairness it completely changes the interpretation.
“The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures (and) spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” he said. “The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America, anywhere, anytime and any place.”
Does anyone know whether he said “but spread democracy…” or “and spread democracy…”?
If the former like this post suggests, then it is indeed another notch in Trump’s belt of horrific quotes that would get any other politician at any other time in American history vilified. If the latter like USA Today is reporting then he seems to be arguing that the US military’s role is not to “spread democracy at the point of a gun.”
In Helldivers today I played around with someone with the username Democrussy Spreader. Funny a saw these words together twice.
Sounds like something straight from Helldivers.
I had to reread it to make sure it was a quote. Holy fucking shit.
An with the new basically enabling act having recently passed…this brings on a whole new meaning.
When the tools of peace are taken away, the only resort are the weapons of… Well, I don’t want to get ahead if myself…
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make… something else happen, I forgot what it was!
