U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday in his remarks to graduates of the United States Military Academy that his country is „ending the era of endless wars.“
„We are ending the era of endless wars. In its place is a renewed, clear-eyed focus on defending America‘s vital interests,“ Trump said before more than 1,000 cadets of the academy also known as West Point.
Former military officials have increasingly spoken out to rebuke Trump over his response to recent protests against the police-involved death of George Floyd and the president‘s threat to dispatch active-duty troops to cities to quell violence and looting that accompanied some of the demonstrations.
In an extraordinary statement Thursday, the top U.S. general expressed regret for his involvement in Trump’s photo opportunity at St. John’s Episcopal Church earlier this month that followed an aggressive clearing of protesters.