{"id":237964,"date":"2026-05-20T13:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237964\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:31:48","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-connecticut-prepares-for-president-trump-visit-to-coast-guard-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237964\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Connecticut Prepares For President Trump Visit To Coast Guard Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">President Trump, who last spoke at the Coast Guard Academy in 2017, is set to deliver the keynote address Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He&#8217;s expected to congratulate about 260 cadets on their hard work and dedication.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">There is a protest planned nearby at McKinley Park at 9 a.m. by the grassroots movement Indivisible.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Members say it is expected to be a nonviolent, non-confrontational protest.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New London police say the park will be open to the public, but there are several parking restrictions in the area.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">People will not be allowed to gather near the main gate of the academy.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Commencement exercises begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday morning and are not open to the public.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 Connecticut&#8217;s John Craven will be covering the graduation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Last year&#8217;s keynote speaker was then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 will cover the president&#8217;s speech live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump, who last spoke at the Coast Guard Academy in 2017, is set to deliver the keynote&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-237964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}