(The crowd boos the reporters behind them.) He lied, he's a liar.' These people are sick, the fake news. Watch, if I'm off by two minutes, they'll say, 'He exaaaaagerated! It was only an hour and 25 minutes.
Right? I salute for, probably an hour-and-a-half. Hours! Sun – I came home, I had a nice tan. And the kids throw the hats in the air, it's beautiful, it really is, and it was a beautiful day. Then the incredible helicopters, brand new, gorgeous helicopters, the Apaches and the other new ones that we just bought, so they fly over. It lasted a long time, I don't know, maybe 45 minutes, maybe longer, I don't know, but a long time. They make some speeches, then I make a speech. "But after an hour – the general that runs it is a fantastic guy – after an hour, we land, we do some more inspections and they say, 'Sir are you ready?' 'Yes, I am.' So we walk like, the equivalent of about three blocks, which was fine. Studied a lot of our great generals, some of our presidents that went there. That was very exciting, actually, it's beautiful, very old. So, they say to me, 'Sir! We're ready to go.' I say, 'Let's go!' This is after saying hello to a lot of cadets inspecting little areas of a building. So, just to show you how bad the fake news is. "And I went there, 1106 cadets were graduating, and beautiful. We're ready.' I said, 'Oh that's right, I have to make a commencement speech at West Point.' You know they delayed it for six weeks because of COVID. So last week they called me, and they say, 'Sir, West Point. You'll find it in the video player at the top of the page.
#Trump ramp walk full
Oh, and while I've tried to capture tone and inflection as best I can here, I would also encourage you to watch the full excerpt from Trump's speech.