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trump's next photo op: Today, featuring 1,100 West Point Graduates
(CNN)President Donald Trump will address approximately 1,100 graduates who have gathered at the US Military Academy at West Point for the annual commencement exercises Saturday morning -- but the graduation will look very different from those in years past.
The students were coronavirus-tested and separated into groups of 250 to live, work and eat together for a two-week quarantine leading up to the graduation address. The graduates will be socially distanced 6 feet from one another Saturday across the Plain Parade Field to accommodate the requirements of Covid-19 protection, instead of at Michie Stadium, the traditional location for the graduation. Family and friends will not be allowed to attend the ceremony but can watch it online.
West Point has made every effort to keep Saturday's commencement ceremony "as close to normal as possible," Lt. Col. Chris Ophardt told CNN in an interview Friday.
The graduates will throw their hats into the air when the ceremony concludes, as is tradition, but there will be major changes.
The students were coronavirus-tested and separated into groups of 250 to live, work and eat together for a two-week quarantine leading up to the graduation address. The graduates will be socially distanced 6 feet from one another Saturday across the Plain Parade Field to accommodate the requirements of Covid-19 protection, instead of at Michie Stadium, the traditional location for the graduation. Family and friends will not be allowed to attend the ceremony but can watch it online.
West Point has made every effort to keep Saturday's commencement ceremony "as close to normal as possible," Lt. Col. Chris Ophardt told CNN in an interview Friday.
The graduates will throw their hats into the air when the ceremony concludes, as is tradition, but there will be major changes.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/politics/trump-west-point-graduation/index.html
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No schools have been having in-person graduations, not high schools or colleges, nor my friend who just earned her Master's Degree. It was considered too dangerous for students, families and friends. Students haven't attended in-person classes for weeks.
Yet because of Trump, the graduates of West Point were required to return to campus from all over the country, remain quarantined on campus, go through testing, required to go to the expense and the effort, with no family or friends, all to accommodate Trump. 
