{"id":654462,"date":"2026-05-20T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654462\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:31:09","slug":"president-trump-to-deliver-commencement-address-to-us-coast-guard-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654462\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump to deliver commencement address to US Coast Guard Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 President Donald Trump will travel to Connecticut on Wednesday to address graduates at the United States Coast Guard Academy. <\/p>\n<p>The president will address the 145th Graduating class at 11 a.m. EST at Cadet Memorial Field. <\/p>\n<p>Trump last spoke at the commencement ceremony in May 2017, where he praised the Coast Guard for its mission, saying the graduating class is &#8220;always ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Americans will place their trust in your leadership, just as they have trusted in generations of Coast Guard men and women,&#8221; Trump said. <\/p>\n<p>In 2025, former Homeland Security Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/top-videos\/trump-names-oklahoma-sen-markwayne-mullin-as-next-dhs-secretary-effective-march-31-kristi-noem-homeland-security-trump-administration-immigration-minnesota-shield-of-americas#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kristi Noem<\/a> gave the keynote address. <\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s appearance this year is also expected to be met with protests, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/2026\/05\/20\/protest-planned-for-wednesday-as-trump-in-ct-for-u-s-coast-guard-commencement\/?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-hartfordcourant&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;mrfcid=202605206a0aff419dec6c1d889c8cc1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hartford Courant <\/a>reports. <\/p>\n<p>A protest is scheduled at New London&#8217;s McKinley Park on Wednesday morning. The outlet reports that a coalition of 14 or more organizations operating as the &#8220;Unify and Resist Coalition&#8221; will be in attendance. <br \/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>A protest organizer told the Hartford Courant that all groups support a common goal: &#8220;The defense of democracy and civil rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Trump&#8217;s remarks will be streamed on The National News Desk&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheNationalDesk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 President Donald Trump will travel to Connecticut on Wednesday to address graduates at the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-654462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}