It was an all-American rollercoaster of a speech. Donald Trump spoke to the assembled graduates of the US Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday, offering advice, congratulating them on their success … and also commenting on their bodies and going off on a tangent about every political achievement he considers himself to have made.
Introduced by new DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin — who clarified that Trump believes in “peace through strength,” an awkward claim as the Iran war festers in the background, that he quickly modified to “but some people only understand strength — the president took the stage.