The White House has altered the transcript and the video of Trump's West Point speech.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

At West Point, President Trump Lauds the “Future Leaders of America’s Army”
The White House
May 25, 2025

“The job of the U.S. Armed Forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, or to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun. The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America — anywhere, any time, and any place.” Watch

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Here is that passage as Trump actually delivered It:

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Trump: The job of the U.S. Armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun…

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May 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM

Trump: The job of the U.S. Armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun…

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-24T16:56:44.582Z

[BoRaGard]

1. G.O.P. has Winston Smith on retainer

Now that he has learned to love Big Dotard, the infamous G.O.P. felon/rapist/grifter.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Because he's an idiot

He requires copywriters chasing after him to clean up his incomprehensible babbling.
That certainly qualifies him for world's stupidest living entity.

[mitch96]

16. Have you noticed he needs NEEDS someone to hate? uff...nt

[vapor2]

19. I have never seen anyone with so much hatred towards everyone

[dchill]

3. Our first Artificially Intelligent president. (?)

[Chasstev365]

4. But... But... But...

Sleepy Joe, Blah Blah Blah:

Hey Corporate Media; FUCK YOU BIGGLY!

We are here because you constantly treat Republican presidents one way and Democratic ones another way. If not for you and the complicit Republican Party, Trump would be sitting a jail cell for multiple felonies.

[NotHardly]

13. LOL!!! Perfection.

[UpInArms]

5. reminds me of: How Stalin's propaganda machine erased people from photographs, 1922-1953

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-photo-manipulation-1922-1953/

Stalin didn’t have Photoshop, but that didn’t keep him from wiping the traces of his enemies from the history books. Using tools that now seem impossibly primitive, Soviet proto-Photoshoppers made “once-famous personalities vanish” and crafted photographs representing Stalin “as the only true friend, comrade, and successor to Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR.”

One day a politician may have been in favor, the next he could be facing the firing squad as an enemy of the people. In the Soviet Union, people were literally written out of the history books by using photo manipulation techniques.

After he came to power in 1929, Stalin declared war on the Soviets he considered tainted by their connections to the political movements that had come before him.

Beginning in 1934 he wiped out an ever-changing group of political “enemies.” Some 750,000 people died during the Great Purge, as it is now known, and more than a million others were banished to remote areas to do hard labor in gulags.

During the purges, many of Stalin’s enemies simply vanished from their homes. Others were executed in public after show trials. And since Stalin knew the value of photographs in both the historical record and his use of mass media to influence the Soviet Union, they often disappeared from photos, too.

This quasi-artisanal work, one of the more enjoyable tasks for the art department of publishing houses during those times, demanded serious dexterity with the scalpel, glue, paint, and airbrush. In this manner, Stalin could order written out of history such comrades he ultimately deemed disloyal (and who usually wound up executed as).

(please go to link to see manipulated photographs - where people are "disappeared" )

[Baitball Blogger]

6. May history log this in as an example of Trump's attempt to alter history.

The cover-up that defined the Trump Administration.

[usonian]

7. He's a chatbot anyway, and OUT OF UNIFORM. Get down and give me twenty, scumbag!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20337392

And Putin is pushing the buttons.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/


Whatever causes the US the most harm is what he orders.

It's planned.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160

And a piece of craptastic piece of shit as a soldier/leader.

[Biophilic]

8. Ah, good to see the "most transparent administration " at work.

[onenote]

9. I've listened to it three times and hear "or" not "but" every time.

that doesn't make the speech any less of an abomination.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Good afternoon. Try refreshing the page.

Last edited Mon May 26, 2025, 02:12 PM - Edit history (1)

Someone’s the soundtrack will revert to that of the previous clip you were watching. I observed what you did too.

This morning, I am on a 3rd generation iPhone SE, with the newest iOS, 18.5, and Safari.

The original definitely has “but,” while the revision has “or.” The NYT marked his comment as possibly being misspoken. I sat through the original, at twice the playback speed. He definitely made the odd remark the first time around.

Cool day out there.

[Aristus]

11. "Alert - Whitehouse SecPress report POTUS MemDay speech doubleplusungood; rectify speedwise."

n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. This made me smile

[bronxiteforever]

14. They even lie when the truth has been recorded

This transcript should be marked as a work of fiction.

[Dem4life1970]

15. It sounds me like he is

... calling for the military to dominate him.

[Hela]

17. Thoughts on Orwell

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”

I remember reading 1984 and wondering how such a society could ever come to be. George Orwell had it right all along, but I didn't expect to see it in my lifetime and even less in the United States.

~Nancy

[pandr32]

18. It won't alter the recollection of those who witnessed the fiasco firsthand.

The Felon made it shockingly obvious how unqualified he is and how low his standards of everything are.