摘要：2025年5月24日（周六），唐纳德·特朗普总统在其第二个任期的首次军校毕业典礼演讲中，赞扬了西点军校即将毕业的学员们所取得的成就和他们的职业选择，同时突然转向竞选式政治吹嘘和发泄其长期不满。
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特朗普出席美军最高学府西点军校2025届毕业生毕业典礼
2025年5月24日（周六），唐纳德·特朗普总统在其第二个任期的首次军校毕业典礼演讲中，赞扬了西点军校即将毕业的学员们所取得的成就和他们的职业选择，同时突然转向竞选式政治吹嘘和发泄其长期不满。
特朗普在美国最高军事学府西点军校的米奇体育场举行毕业典礼上说：“再过一会儿，你们将成为人类历史上最精英、最具传奇色彩的军事学院的毕业生。你们将成为世界上有史以来最伟大、最强大军队的军官。我知道这一点，因为是我重建了这支军队，重建了军事力量。在我的第一个任期内，我们对军队的重建是前所未有的。”
这位共和党总统戴着一顶红色的“让美国再次伟大”帽子告诉美国军事学院2025届的1002名毕业学员，美国是“世界上最热门的国家”，并强调了军队的“美国优先”精神。
毕业学员接受特朗普检阅
特朗普说：“我们正在消除干扰，让我们的军队专注于其核心任务：粉碎美国的对手，消灭美国的敌人，以从未有过的方式捍卫我们伟大的美国国旗。”
特朗普称，本届学员们毕业于陆军历史上的一个“决定性时刻”，他指责过去的政治领导人将士兵派往“那些根本不想与我们有任何关系的国家进行国家建设运动”。他说他正在清除军队中的跨性别观念、“批判种族理论”以及他所说的具有分裂性和政治性的培训。
特朗普指出，过去的政府“让武装部队参与各种社会项目和政治事业，却让我们的边境无人防守，耗尽我们的军火库去打其他国家的战争。”
特朗普的一些演讲内容与政治演讲中的言论毫无区别，从他对2021年1月卸任时国家情况的评估，到他对去年11月战胜民主党人卡玛拉·哈里斯的回顾，他声称，选民给了他一个“伟大的授权”，“这让我们有权做我们想做的事。”
他经常把焦点转向自己，重复了一些他在竞选集会上的俏皮话，包括声称自己面临的（民主党）调查比黑帮分子阿尔·卡彭还多。
听众还听到以跑题著称的特朗普在讲述关于已故房地产开发商威廉·莱维特的轶事时提到了“花瓶妻子”和游艇，特朗普称这位亿万富翁朋友失去了动力。
参加毕业典礼的学员
但特朗普确实也花时间认可了个别毕业生的成就。
他把克里斯·韦尔杜戈叫到台上，并指出他在1月份一个寒冷的夜晚仅用两个半小时就完成了18.5英里的行军。特朗普让在2024赛季曾一度全国排名第一的男子长曲棍球队站起来接受表彰。特朗普还把陆军的明星四分卫布赖森·戴利带到讲台前，总统赞扬了戴利如“钢铁”般的肩膀。特朗普后来以戴利为例，反对跨性别女性参加女子体育比赛。根据传统，特朗普还赦免了六名面临纪律处分的学员。
他告诉毕业生们：“你们本可以做任何你们想做的事，去任何你们想去的地方。”并且“为自己谋得华尔街或硅谷的顶级工作也不错。但我认为你们现在所做的更好。”
特朗普给毕业生的建议包括做自己喜欢的事、有远大的抱负、努力工作、坚守自己的文化、对美国保持信念以及勇于冒险。
特朗普说：“这是一个变革惊人的时代，我们不需要一群只追求职业发展的人和唯唯诺诺的人来担任军官。我们需要有勇气、有远见和有骨气的爱国者。”
就在校园外，大约三十多名示威者挥舞着美国小国旗。人群中有人举着牌子，上面写着“支持我们的退伍军人”和“停止削减开支”，而其他人则举起塑料桶，上面写着“陆军加油，打败法西斯主义”。
前一天（周五），副总统JD·万斯在马里兰州安纳波利斯的美国海军学院向毕业班学生发表了讲话。他在讲话中表示，特朗普正在努力确保美国士兵的部署有明确的目标，而不是过去那种“不明确的任务”和“无期限的冲突”。
毕业学员根据传统将军帽抛向空中
Trump’s speech to West Point graduates mixes praise, politics and grievances. By SEUNG MIN KIM and ALI SWENSON. WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP). May 25, 2025
President Donald Trump used the first service academy commencement address of his second term Saturday to laud graduating West Point cadets for their accomplishments and career choice while also veering sharply into a campaign-style recitation of political boasts and long-held grievances.
“In a few moments, you’ll become graduates of the most elite and storied military academy in human history,” Trump said at the ceremony at Michie Stadium. “And you will become officers of the greatest and most powerful army the world has ever known. And I know, because I rebuilt that army, and I rebuilt the military. And we rebuilt it like nobody has ever rebuilt it before in my first term.”
Wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat, the Republican president told the 1,002 members of the class of 2025 at the U.S. Military Academy that the United States is the “hottest country in the world” and underscored an “America First” ethos for the military.
“We’re getting rid of distractions and we’re focusing our military on its core mission: crushing America’s adversaries, killing America’s enemies and defending our great American flag like it has never been defended before,” Trump said.
Trump said the cadets were graduating at a “defining moment” in Army history as he accused political leaders in the past of sending soldiers into “nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us.” He said he was clearing the military of transgender ideas, “critical race theory” and types of training he called divisive and political.
Past administrations, he said, “subjected the armed forces to all manner of social projects and political causes while leaving our borders undefended and depleting our arsenals to fight other countries’ wars.”
At times, his remarks were indistinguishable from those heard in a political speech, from his assessment of the country when he left office in January 2021 to his review of last November’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris, arguing that voters gave him a “great mandate” and “it gives us the right to do what we want to do.”
Frequently turning the focus on himself, he reprised some of his campaign rally one-liners, including the claim that he has faced more investigations than mobster Al Capone.
At one point the crowd listened as Trump, known for his off-message digressions, referred to “trophy wives” and yachts during an anecdote about the late real estate developer William Levitt, a billionaire friend who Trump said lost momentum.
But the president also took time to acknowledge the achievements of individual graduates.
He summoned Chris Verdugo to the stage and noted that he completed an 18.5-mile march on a freezing night in January in just two hours and 30 minutes. Trump had the nationally ranked men’s lacrosse team, which held the No. 1 spot for a time in the 2024 season, stand and be recognized. Trump also brought Army’s star quarterback, Bryson Daily, to the lectern, where the president praised Daily’s “steel”-like shoulder. Trump later used Daily as an example to make a case against transgender women participating in women’s athletics.
In a nod to presidential tradition, Trump also pardoned about half a dozen cadets who had faced disciplinary infractions.
He told graduates that “you could have done anything you wanted, you could have gone anywhere.” and that “writing your own ticket to top jobs on Wall Street or Silicon Valley wouldn’t be bad. But I think what you’re doing is better.”
His advice to them included doing what they love, thinking big, working hard, holding on to their culture, keeping faith in America and taking risks.
“This is a time of incredible change and we do not need an officer corps of careerists and yes men,” Trump said. “We need patriots with guts and vision and backbone.”
Just outside campus, about three dozen demonstrators gathered before the ceremony and were waving miniature American flags. One in the crowd carried a sign that said “Support Our Veterans” and “Stop the Cuts,” while others held up plastic buckets with the message: “Go Army Beat Fascism.”
On Friday, Vice President JD Vance spoke to the graduating class at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Vance said in his remarks that Trump was working to ensure U.S. soldiers are deployed with clear goals, rather than the “undefined missions” and “open-ended conflicts” of the past.
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