38 Black women join white male generals and presidents as alumni at West Point
. Trump, who turned 74 on Sunday, responded angrily on his Twitter account, tweeting: “The ramp that I descended after my West Point Commencement speech was very long & steep, had no handrail and, most importantly, was very slippery. The last thing I was going to do is ‘fall’ for the Fake News to have fun with. Final ten feet I ran down to level ground. Momentum!” But as, "There was no evidence that the ramp was slippery, and the skies were clear during the ceremony.
Despite incremental progress, West Point remains mostly white and male: there were 230 women in the class of 2020, according to the, and 12-percent of graduates were African-American; 9 percent were Asian, 9 percent Hispanic and less than 1 percent Native American.
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