President Trump is scheduled to deliver the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy next month.
Trump will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., to speak to graduates at the service academy’s Falcon Stadium on May 30, the White House announced on Thursday.
The Air Force’s Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, will perform a flyover after the graduation ceremony concludes.
This marks the first time Trump will deliver a commencement speech at the Air Force Academy. He spoke at the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduation in 2018 and the Coast Guard Academy’s graduation in 2017.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will deliver the commencement speech to 2019 graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy on May 24.
In 2018, then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis delivered the commencement speech to Air Force Academy graduates and advised them to “always be ready to fight and to win.”
“There’s no room for complacency as our adversaries do everything in their power to erode our military’s competitive edge,” Mattis said.
The service academy typically has either the president, vice president, secretary of defense, and secretary of the Air Force speak at graduation each year.
