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left-of-center2012

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Fri May 31, 2019, 03:22 PM May 2019

President Trump salutes Air Force Academy graduates: 'Keep the wings level and true'

Nearly 1,000 cadets celebrated their graduation from the Air Force Academy on Thursday with a Thunderbirds flyover and an address by President Donald Trump.

“Today you take the controls,” Trump told the Class of 2019 during the ceremony at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “You’re going to push it up and chart your course across the sky. Keep the wings level and true, because your country is sending you on a vital mission: To defend America, protect our people, and to pursue our nation’s great and glorious destiny.”

Trump praised the parents and other supportive family members of the graduating cadets, who were “beaming with joy – and that’s what they’re doing, they are beaming with joy.”
“Thank you for raising rock-ribbed American patriots,” Trump said. “America is stronger thanks to your love and support for these incredible people, these incredible graduates. Without them, you wouldn’t be here, and that’s the way it is.”

Trump also lauded the progress the military has made under his administration ...

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/05/30/keep-the-wings-level-and-true-president-trump-salutes-air-force-academy-graduates/

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President Trump salutes Air Force Academy graduates: 'Keep the wings level and true' (Original Post) left-of-center2012 May 2019 OP
I have not heard the expression "rock-ribbed" for a very, very long MineralMan May 2019 #1
From his chef at his hotel in DC. n/t monmouth4 May 2019 #2
He always has to insert himself in there somewhere. smirkymonkey May 2019 #3
Of course, he personally wrote that address. Totally Tunsie May 2019 #4
He can't wait to address the first ever graduation ceremony of the Space Force! lunatica May 2019 #5

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
1. I have not heard the expression "rock-ribbed" for a very, very long
Fri May 31, 2019, 03:24 PM
May 2019

time. I wonder where Trump picked it up.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
4. Of course, he personally wrote that address.
Fri May 31, 2019, 04:39 PM
May 2019

NOT!

Why does his staff keep trying to portray him as a literate adult?

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
5. He can't wait to address the first ever graduation ceremony of the Space Force!
Fri May 31, 2019, 04:44 PM
May 2019

By then Pence will have conquered the Moon, turned it into a 100% Christian outpost where the Outer Space cadet graduation ceremonies will be held!

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