Donald Trump's annual commencement address to graduating cadets at West Point Academy comes as a growing number of military figures in the US have condemned the president for politicising the armed forces amid the George Floyd protests, and his threat to use federal troops to quell the violence.
US President Donald Trump is set to address the new graduating class of the Military Academy at West Point on Saturday, ABC News reports.
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the 1,110 cadets to follow in the footsteps of other educational institutions and switch to online studies in March, the graduating class is now to be brought back to the upstate New York campus.
In April Donald Trump announced that he would address the graduates in person.
After a succession of COVID-19 quarantine weeks and testing, the graduates were recalled, with the pentagon officials cited as saying some 1.5 percent have tested positive for the respiratory virus.
There has not been any information regarding the contents of Trump's planned speech.
Open Letter
Earlier, in an open letter published this week on Medium, more than 500 West Point graduates from some six decades signed an open letter to the Class of 2020.
The West Point alumni issued a warning to the newly-minted graduates to steer clear of partisan politics.
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