Trump's Decline Can't Be Hidden At West Point Speech Disaster

The White House can purge transcripts and try to keep Trump on the golf course, but when the president has to give a speech like his commencement address at West Point, his decline is obvious.

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Donald Trump’s presidential events have taken on a very choreographed look and feel. On most days, Trump is sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office, signing things that he doesn’t seem to know what they are in front of a group of White House reporters who are increasingly littered with friendly right-wing media.

The days of rallies are long gone because Trump doesn’t have to run for office anymore and has seemingly little interest in consistently holding rallies. Trump doesn’t stand up in the White House briefing room and hold press conferences. He doesn’t give many organized speeches.

The White House has purged all transcripts of Trump’s remarks.

Trump gave the commencement address at the non-political West Point commencement address, and the nation got a taste of what his administration seems to be hiding.

Trump attacked diversity, and then he attacked former presidents by saying that they had, “subjected the armed forces to all manner of social projects and political causes, while leaving our borders undefended and depleting our arsenals to fight other countries’ wars. All of that’s ended. It’s ended strongly. They’re not even allowed to think about it anymore.”

Trump rambled on for about an hour, but it was an exchange about trophy wives and yachts that left the crowd silent, and provided evidence that Trump is rapidly declining.

Trump said:

 Pay a trophy wife. It didn't work out too well, but it didn't, and that doesn't work out too well. I must tell you. A lot of trophy wives don't work out, but it made him happy for a little while at least. But he found a new wife. He sold his little boat and got a big yacht. He had one of the biggest yachts anywhere in the world.

He moved for a time to Monte Carlo and he led the Good Life and time went by and he got bored. And 15 years later, the company that he sold to called him and they said, the housing business is not for us. You have to understand, when Bill Levitt was hot, when he had momentum, he'd go to the job sites every night.

He'd pick up every loose nail, he'd pick up every scrap of wood. If there was a bolt or a screw laying on the ground, he'd pick it up and he'd use it the next day and put it together a house.

The Army cadet commencement is non-political, but Trump showed up in his red hat and gave a speech that was nothing but political in the parts that any sense could be made out of.

Watch Trump’s speech:

The mainstream press continues to try to drag the conversation back to Joe Biden, when a real-time crisis showed up at West Point on Saturday.

The White House refuses to release transcripts of Trump’s remarks for a reason.

However, the presidency is one of the biggest spotlights in the entire world. Those around him have been trying to hide Trump in plain sight for years, but Trump can’t stay hidden forever.

There will be moments, like the speech at West Point, where the real Trump will be revealed.

The story that the media should be telling isn’t one about Joe Biden and the past.

The story that should be getting more attention is Donald Trump in the present, and what it could mean for the future of the United States.

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