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Trump to Move West Point to Mississippi
The President insists the plan is strategic, not a raspberry to his his Democratic home state
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the heels of his announcement that he’s going to move the US Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, President Trump revealed Friday that he also hopes to move the U..S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, to West Point, Mississippi.
The proposed Space Command relocation has been criticized by Democrats as yet another Trump abuse of his office — rewarding a reliably red state while punishing a blue that has mail-in voting.
Moving the military academy will surely spark similar Democrat protests.
Trump is already trying to get out ahead of any controversy. In defense of the plan, he said, “It’s not like we’re going to be fighting any wars in cold places like Russia, so we should be training our future officers in a hot, humid Sun Belt state like Mississippi.
“Besides,” he added, “Mississippi already has a West Point, so we won’t have to change the name.”
When asked if the cost of building a new campus wouldn’t be prohibitively costly, the President noted that the Army would in fact save taxpayers money if it doesn’t have to provide cadets with wool uniforms and coats and that the federally owned West Point campus — 16,000 acres, some of which border the Hudson River — is prime real estate ideal for luxury housing and golf courses.
“It has the potential to become a tourist mecca like Gaza,” the President said.
