President Donald Trump delivered the graduation handle at West Level Saturday and gave a shoutout to the “first-rate athletes” on the faculty.

“I like the sports activities stuff. What you have carried out is fairly superb,” Trump mentioned earlier than highlighting the men’s lacrosse team.

“Final 12 months, for the primary time ever, Military lacrosse grew to become the No. 1-ranked males’s lacrosse staff in all the nation. That is a troublesome sport, too.”

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Trump then pivoted to the soccer staff, which was nationally ranked earlier this 12 months.

“Your sophomore 12 months, Military soccer beat Navy, 20-17, and the following 12 months, you probably did it once more, beating Navy, 17-11, and dominating Air Power, 23-3,” Trump continued. “However this 12 months, the Black Knights fought your manner into the highest 20 nationally and racked up your longest successful streak since 1949 with the assistance of graduating quarterback Cadet Bryson Daily, or as you name him, Captain America. I got here to a sport. I mentioned, ‘He may get into the NFL.’ However he selected this life. And I feel he made a sensible choice.”

Trump then implored Day by day to strategy the stage and say just a few phrases.

“Go Military soccer. … Cannot wait to graduate. Love you guys,” he mentioned.

Military quarterback Bryson Day by day (13) runs with the ball throughout the first half of a sport towards Tulane Dec. 6, 2024, in West Level, N.Y.  (AP Picture/Adam Starvation)

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“I simply tapped his shoulder. It is like I hit a chunk of metal. The man’s in fine condition,” Trump mentioned as Day by day left the stage. “There’s at all times a purpose for fulfillment. In a time when different prime faculty quarterbacks had been occupied with going professional, Bryson’s thoughts was on one thing else. He advised an interviewer earlier this 12 months, ‘I’m targeted on my profession as an infantry officer.’ That is what he needs to do. So Bryson, you probably did the best factor. That is service at its best. Thanks, Bryson. That is superb. He is an incredible man with an incredible staff.”

Trump delivered a speech to Alabama graduates earlier this month, spotlighting their groups and former head soccer coach Nick Saban.

Trump advised the 1,002 graduating cadets that the academy is the “most elite and storied army academy in human historical past.”

President Donald Trump walks the sphere previous to addressing graduates of america Army Academy at West Level at Michie Stadium Might 24, 2025, in West Level, N.Y. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photographs)

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Trump railed towards earlier overseas coverage initiatives. And he declared an finish to crucial race concept, DEI initiatives and males in girls’s sports activities whereas vowing to advertise a return to merit-based techniques and conventional army values.

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