Buck on Trump’s West Point Speech: He’s Politicizing the Military in a Way I’m Uncomfortable With

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BUCK: "Well, I. Mean, I don’t know if it’s Republican or Democrat. And I will say I’ve actually always had an issue with presidents going and giving speeches in front of military audiences. Even though their commander. In chief. Now, if they are going in the in the role of commander in chief, and they have some specific reason to be there in that position, I think I can understand that. But Donald Trump is certainly not the first president who has gone and given a speech that veered into the political in front of the military, and I’ve always been uneasy about that. Now, this is taking it to a whole other level. He’s got the hat. I don’t know if he was worried about his hair or something, but like, it was clearly not just there in his role as commander in chief. And there was some, I guess some some elements of it that were a normal commencement speech, but it is politicizing the military in a way that I’m just very uncomfortable with in general. And presidents have done it a lot, and now we’re just getting further and further down. This road. I don’t think that’s what the service academies are for, to have politics injected into what they’re doing. They have one mission, service of this country, and it should have nothing to do with with everything else that’s going on in Washington. So I find it very uncomfortable, and I sort of always have."