At the same time that Donald Trump was addressing cadets at West Point's graduation ceremonies, the Washington Post is reporting that some midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy are sneaking around to share complaints about the President's policies.
On Saturday Trump gave a half-commencement speech, half-MAGA rally rant as he spoke to the West Point graduates and their families.
During that speech –– when he wasn't talking about "trophy wives" –– he bragged about ridding the nation's military academies of "DEI policies" before ranting, "We have liberated our troops from divisive and demeaning political trainings. There will be no more critical race theory or transgender for everybody forced onto the brave men and women in uniform, or on anybody else for that matter, in this country. We will not have men playing in women’s sports.”
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With former scandal-plagued Fox News personality Pete Hegseth acting as Trump's defense secretary and immediately purging the military of the policies that offend MAGA conservatives, the Post is reporting that there is a growing resistance at the Naval Academy.
"At the U.S. Naval Academy, some midshipmen have started using nongovernment email addresses to run underground versions of the same affinity clubs disbanded by their administration. Others have used the new email addresses to communicate their concerns about banned books or shuttered clubs to professors, according to three faculty members interviewed by The Washington Post," the report states.
According to one of those educators who wished to remain anonymous admitted he told his students, "There is a point where compliance turns into complicity.”
“We at the Naval Academy are here to prepare young officers to command. They need to know what we have learned from our study of politics and history and literature and languages,” they explained. “We are failing them and we are failing in our jobs if we suppress some things we know are true and we parrot other things we know are false.”