By Michael Woyton
I wasn’t surprised to read that my congressman — Rep. Pat Ryan, D-Gardiner — was as pissed as the rest of us after hearing the grifter-in-chief’s rant commencement address at the United States Military Academy in West Point.
President Donald J. Felon trashed diversity and drag shows, told a stadium full of graduates who became second lieutenants that no one was joining the military and advised them to avoid trophy wives in the hour-long speech Saturday.
Ryan, who is a graduate of West Point and represents New York’s 18th Congressional District where West Point is located, wrote in an op-ed in USA Today that he didn’t have an opportunity to speak with the president about concerns his constituents have.
Why no opportunity? The adjudicated rapist high-tailed it out of the Hudson Valley immediately after ending his speech.
“Trump didn’t even have the decency to stay and shake the graduating cadets’ hands, a longstanding tradition embraced by every president from Biden to Reagan — instead he went golfing,” Ryan wrote.
The congressman said he was honored to participate in the ceremony to celebrate the young graduates.
“They deserved the day to be totally focused on their selfless dedication to serving our country,” Ryan wrote.
“Unfortunately, that is not the speech they got from the president. Instead, wearing a bright red MAGA hat, he delivered an overtly political and incredibly divisive campaign speech,” he wrote.
Ryan decided to send the president a letter after the ceremony asking him to think about the future of those graduates and “the future of ALL our men and women in uniform.”
In the letter, he told the president that firing 83,000 VA employees will have detrimental impacts on the quality and accessibility of care for veterans.
Ryan said that cutting funding for mental health care and cancer research will kill veterans.
He also said that closing beds at the Castle Point VA, where he himself received medical care, will put veterans’ lives at risk.
“You’re politicizing our military and our service academies, including with the hat you wore today,” Ryan wrote. “Your insistence on making our troops loyal to you — rather than our country and Constitution — puts us all in danger. You must stop.”
Well said, congressman.
Read Rep. Ryan’s complete letter to the president through this link.
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This is what happens when a conspiracy theorist is in charge. If they can’t find proof of something, they will just make it up.
I’ve said it before: RFK Jr. doesn’t care if people die.
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Lead photo: West Point – The U.S. Military Academy via Defense.gov
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