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President Joe Biden told graduates of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London they’d soon be defending America in a changed world during his keynote address at the academy’s 140th commencement ceremony.
Biden spoke about the Coast Guard’s role in dealing with climate change and threats from Russia and China. But his main topic was the pandemic that led to the cancellation of last year’s in-person ceremony.
“When times got hard, you were there for one another. That’s something you’ll all learn quickly at the academy. You can’t crew the tall ship Eagle without working together it’s not possible. So the pandemic didn’t change that, but it made it more important,” Biden said.
Under bright sunshine in New London, Connecticut, Joe Biden addressed the graduating class of the US Coast Guard Academy and found it a tougher crowd than he was expecting. Delivering remarks to the class of 2021, the president thanked them for “choosing the more difficult path” than many others during a challenging time. In the more light-hearted first half of the speech, a genial Mr Biden made a number of jokes, though some were better.
Joe Biden is still sharing his dementia humor with America. This time it was during the Coast Guard graduation. He drew some laughs for jokes that didn’t work because the audience was polite and in a good mood, but his dementia brings him to the brink of anger if everything doesn’t go the way he wants it to go. That happened at the graduation as you can see in the first clip.
As J.D. Rucker said at Liberty Daily, the worst part is he stole the line and then butchered it:
He was busy butchering a quote from the teleprompter, saying how the Coast Guard is “the hard nucleus around the Navy form in times of war.” That’s not quite the line, but they understood what he was trying to say. Still, they didn’t clap, and Biden took offense.
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Emphasizing the importance of their mission ahead in a quickly changing world, President Biden told graduating Coast Guard cadets on Wednesday that we need you badly - that’s not hyperbole.
Biden, giving his first commencement address as the nation’s commander in chief, urged the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s 2021 graduating class to go out and be the future and that their mission will become even more global and even more important.
Speaking at the Coast Guard Academy’s campus in New London, Connecticut, the president stressed that the world is changing. We’re at a significant inflection point, as he spotlighted disruptive nations such as China and Russia as a top challenge facing the U.S.