Donald Trump went to the US Army Academy at West Point today….
He spoke…
The audiance heard a Commmader-in -Chief boast about doing thinsg that ARE Directly against what the cadets have heard, learned and embraced up until a convicted criminal of a President came before them….
Trump and his Defense Sec. Hegseth (A man accused of sexual misdeeds, like Trump, and a drinking issue’s) ARE trying to shape an inclusive military into a White and Male dominated led….
The ‘troop’s know this…
They are alos well aware of Trump’s misuse of military power during his first term and have watched as Hegseth has attacked the countries militarty leaderrship’s diversity ….
The report is there was little to no support shown by the audiance sitting in front their ‘leader’….
Few if any minds will be changed by Trump & Co.’s efforts to remake the military highere education institutions like the effort to do the same for other elite higher education school’s…
Less than six months into his second term, Trump has already made his mark on the military.
In January, he endured a bruising political fight over his pick for defense secretary, former “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Pete Hegseth, batting down allegations of misconduct to elevate a leader who shared his view that a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion had weakened the military.
Since then, Trump and Hegseth have fired at least nine senior military officers who regularly touted diversity training as a strength during the Biden administration. They have declared that DEI policies “are incompatible with the values” of the Defense Department and prohibited academies from teaching what they have called “critical race theory,” which Republicans made a flash point during the presidential campaign.
Hegseth has said the policy changes are aimed at increasing the lethality of the nation’s fighting forces, even as the administration has stated its intention to limit the nation’s participation in armed conflict.
In signing the executive order, Trump said he was “committed to meritocracy and to the elimination of race-based and sex-based discrimination” in the U.S. Armed Forces….
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And on June 14, the White House has planned a multimillion-dollar military parade on the National Mall to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army — a date that coincides with the president’s birthday.
Across military academies, some students and faculty have subtly resisted the Trump administration’s decrees, hoping to maintain an academic culture that tolerates disparate political views and fosters racial diversity.
At the U.S. Naval Academy, some midshipmen have started using nongovernment email addresses to run underground versions of the same affinity clubs disbanded by their administration. Others have used the new email addresses to communicate their concerns about banned books or shuttered clubs to professors, according to three faculty members interviewed by The Washington Post. The faculty spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid professional retribution. Military officers who use “contemptuous words” against the president and other federal officials can be court-martialed, according to the military code of conduct.
At West Point, some faculty have tweaked language in their syllabi to comply while continuing to teach the same topics, said Parsons….
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Faculty have since been told to run their research through an AI screening tool to determine whether they are compliant with the new guidelines, documents show. The device then flags words including “barrier,” “Black,” “allyship,” “cultural differences” and the “Gulf of Mexico” that do not comply with Trump’s executive order, the provost told faculty in a newsletter reviewed by The Post.
“We at the Naval Academy are here to prepare young officers to command. They need to know what we have learned from our study of politics and history and literature and languages,” the professor said. “We are failing them and we are failing in our jobs if we suppress some things we know are true and we parrot other things we know are false.”
The tension has come up in class and in individual exchanges with cadets. The professor said he has counseled students who feel torn about deployment, caught between their belief in service to the country and their worries about the president who would give their orders.
He advised them to serve until they face an order they believe to be illegal.
If that point comes, he told them, “reject it rather than compromise yourself.”….
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