Rambling West Point address about trophy wives, golf and Al Capone

[struggle4progress]

Katie Hawkinson
in Washington, D.C.
Saturday 24 May 2025 18:15 BST

... “An example is a great athlete, Gary Player, great golfer ... He’s a friend of mine, he gets a little angry at people ... “He said, ‘I hit the ball further than them. Why am I small?’ ...

Trump then pivoted to a discussion about real estate developer William Levitt ...

“He was great at what he did,” Trump said of Levitt. “You see him all over the country, still Levittowns. This was a long time ago, but he was a first of the really, really big home builders, and he became very rich, a very rich man, and then he decided to sell ... He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn't work out too well, but it doesn't – that doesn't work out too well, I must tell ya. A lot of trophy wives” ...

“I was investigated more than the great late Alphonse Capone,” Trump told the West Point graduates ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-west-point-address-dei-immigration-b2757275.html

[malaise]

1. This should frighten everyone cause he really believes it

“it gives us the right to do what we want to do.”

[Blue Owl]

2. He loves to display his idiocy like a peacock

A pea-brained peacock

[UpInArms]

3. That entire article is worth reading

[riversedge]

4. It seems that trumps speech writers can't even write an inspiring speech for West Point Grads--but maybe

they did and as usual Trump just talks nonsense on their day.

[sop]

25. If one of his handlers ever convinced Trump to do a fireside chat, he'd choose to do it in front of a burning cross.

[riversedge]

5. Disappointing that POTUS didn't stay to shake hands with the West Point graduates but left halfway through commencement.

What a selfish JERK!



Disappointing that POTUS didn't stay to shake hands with the West Point graduates but left halfway through commencement. A nice tradition from many commanders in chief.

Link to tweet

[SallyHemmings]

9. He was too bored to shake hands with future suckers and losers

[Grokenstein]

16. Good, though. I certainly wouldn't want that scumbag touching me.

Paradoxically, I dream of him coming within arm's reach. But I'd be wearing gloves, and other splatter-proof gear.

[sop]

31. The soldiers in Trump's Big Extravaganza should leave halfway during the parade.

Put down their rifles, park their tanks, leave the missile carriers on the street and just walk away.

[sop]

6. Trump's speech was insane, he should have been dragged off the stage in a straitjacket by men in white.

In the middle of an hour-long graduation speech at West Point, wearing a red MAGA hat, Trump starts rambling about trophy wives: "He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife...Could you say a trophy wife?...I guess we can say a trophy wife...It didn't work out too well, but it doesn't, and that doesn't work out too well, I must tell you...A lot of trophy wives doesn't (sic) work out...But it made them happy for a little while at least...But he found a new wife, he sold his little boat and he got a big yacht...he had one of the biggest yachts anywhere in the world..."

[LudwigPastorius]

11. Trump is like the real-life version of Seinfeld's portrayal of George Steinbrenner.

[Ping Tung]

7. "merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence's

"merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence's of our own nightly dreams" Thomas Jefferson.

*Note:" He was talking about the Book of Revelations by St.Paul but I think it is applicable here.

[erronis]

20. Perfection.

[tanyev]

8. Readability Analyzer on the excerpt in the OP, Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 3.73

Someday those West Point graduates will be able to tell their grandchildren they were there the day the President of the United States of America talked to them like they were graduating from third grade.

😒

[artemisia1]

10. ...and then I brushed my teeth and saw that the television was on. Good show. Great show. It was

MY show, the greatest show ever on television -- anywhere. We all want to bring this forward and this is a heckuva an investment this crypto coin I have and I won a deal with the Chinese to buy sixty tons of U.S. made Pop-Tarts. What other President did that? Ever?

We are on our way to making America great again and that includes our beloved new state of Canada. (SARCASM)

[Deuxcents]

12. Just disgusting. He rambles 💩 to West Point graduates about nothing of substance with that stupid red hat on

Disrespectful to the leaders of tomorrow, their family and friends and their sacrifices to be where they are and he doesn’t have time to greet them. I don’t have one spit’s worth of any emotion for him..save one 🤬

[chowder66]

13. Jesus...he said this too...

"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 military's job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America, anywhere, anytime and any place.”

[Hekate]

14. God save us

[Dem2theMax]

18. Somebody, anybody, save us.

I must say that 100 times a day.
Along with other things I cannot put on DU.

[Grim Chieftain]

24. Lock him up

Put him in a straight-jacket and lock him up. For the love of God, he is batshit crazy, and it's getting more evident every day.

[chowder66]

27. And the asshole who wrote it for him!

[LudwigPastorius]

40. "The job of the U.S. Armed Forces is...to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,"

Then I guess we democratized the shit out of the Afghanis and Iraqis, not to mention the Vietnamese.

[Hekate]

15. Transcripts are all being scrubbed by his handlers now. Would everything be on the Wayback Machine?

Someone has to be storing this up….

[erronis]

22. I read that the Wayback Machine was having dry heaves. Refusing to accept this shit.

But I'm sure all the AI hype machines are ingesting it in order to spew their widsoms (stet) for future generations of dolts.

You asked earlier for god to save us --- this is not her work, it is pure devilry.

[BlueMTexpat]

17. Kermit the Frog

gave a MUCH better graduation speech!

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/entertainment/kermit-the-frog-commencement-address

The Felon-in-Chief was surpassed by a Muppet!

[Figarosmom]

19. Geez

[red dog 1]

21. Here's the speech via Meidas Touch

[erronis]

23. Can't watch - every second my IQ drops. I'd soon be in maggot territory.

[Skittles]

26. please, it is MAGAt

REAL maggots serve an actual critical purpose on this earth.

[Skittles]

28. was he invited to speak there?

WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE

[Totally Tunsie]

29. By far, the most disgusting graduation speech ever.

It was nothing more than an hour of $trump patting himself on the back and kissing his own ass. What a pity that these cadets who worked so hard for the past four years had to endure his self-praising blubber, and didn't have a speaker representative of their efforts. It should have been a day of great celebration and instead was an insult to the graduates and an embarrassment to the nation.

[PJMcK]

30. Rick Wilson explains Trump's dementia

[Prairie Gates]

32. Reminder: Hannity and that weirdo MAGA swimmer were very mad that the University of Maryland

featured a lovely little commencement address from Kermit the Frog (UMD is the alma mater of both Jim Henson and his wife). They called it "unserious."

And here's Trump babbling and weaving about trophy wives and Levitt's yacht size at...checks notes...The United States Military Academy?

Disgusting and truly beneath the dignity of everyone there but Trump.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. here's a few highlights from his speech to West Point cadets this morning.

Link to tweet

[PedroXimenez]

34. "Levitt was great at what he did"

discriminating against black people on a massive scale

[Bread and Circuses]

35. He needs to be in memory care facility

[Traildogbob]

36. Tapper is frantically writing the book right now.

Determined to get it published before the world ends under the lunatics command.
That I can tell you. Believe me. And the Media will be selling it 24/7.

[allegorical oracle]

37. Yeah, djt is such an ideal, uplifting, inspiring role model for upcoming generations. nt

[BigmanPigman]

38. Mr Bone Spurs on Memorial Day

to West Point. Who voted for this evil, dumb fuck TWICE?!?!?!?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. I like POTUS who shakes the hands of each military academy graduate at a graduation cermony

trump gave a horrible speech and then left without shaking the hands of each graduate. Presidents Obama and Biden each took the time to shake the hand of each graduate

When President Obama spoke at the 2014 West Point commencement ceremony he shook the hand of every single graduate after his speech. Today, Donald Trump gave a speech while wearing a MAGA hat and then left without shaking any hands

— Marco Foster (@marcofoster.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T22:49:12.476Z

I like Presidents who don’t use West Point as a political prop.

— Protect Kamala Harris ✊ (@disavowtrump20.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T18:20:02.178Z

President Biden spent 70 minutes congratulating, saluting and shaking the hand of each one of the 1,036 West Point graduates, plus gave his speech, but it’s not worth any commentary by the media.
So you know he did well.

— LynneMcCartney (@lynnemccartney.bsky.social) 2024-05-27T04:01:20.959Z

Link to tweet

Trump has time to host a dinner for the rich crypto guys who bought his memecoin, but not to shake hands with West Point graduates. Priorities.

— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T20:51:34.012Z