--- title: Read Donald Trump's Speech at U.S. Coast Guard Graduation description: "I got elected to serve the forgotten men and women of our country, and that's what I'm doing," Trump said in his commencement speech canonical: https://time.com/4782382/donald-trump-coast-guard-commencement-graduation-speech/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-17T18:17:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:58:17.973Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Read President Trump's Speech at U.S. Coast Guard Academy Commencement og:description: "I will never stop fighting for you" og:url: https://time.com/4782382/donald-trump-coast-guard-commencement-graduation-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4df49379bba382f/6988cdb1fb4eaca649892085/donald-trump-coast-guard-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP-COMMENCEMENT og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read President Trump's Speech at U.S. Coast Guard Academy Commencement twitter:description: "I will never stop fighting for you" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4df49379bba382f/6988cdb1fb4eaca649892085/donald-trump-coast-guard-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump at U.S. Coast Guard Commencement: 'Adversity Makes You Stronger' by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 17, 2017 6:17 PM UTC  President Donald Trump stands during the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Commencement ceremony in New London, Connecticut on May 17, 2017. President Donald Trump stands during the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Commencement ceremony in New London, Connecticut on May 17, 2017.Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 17, 2017 6:17 PM UTC _President Trump delivered the commencement remarks at the United States Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday._ --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4782382/donald-trump-coast-guard-commencement-graduation-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4782382/donald-trump-coast-guard-commencement-graduation-speech/"},"headline":"President Trump at U.S. Coast Guard Commencement: 'Adversity Makes You Stronger'","datePublished":"2017-05-17T18:17:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:58:17.973Z","description":"\"I will never stop fighting for you\"","url":"https://time.com/4782382/donald-trump-coast-guard-commencement-graduation-speech/","keywords":["Education","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4df49379bba382f/6988cdb1fb4eaca649892085/donald-trump-coast-guard-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4df49379bba382f/6988cdb1fb4eaca649892085/donald-trump-coast-guard-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-COMMENCEMENT","caption":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-COMMENCEMENT","creditText":"Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4782382/donald-trump-coast-guard-commencement-graduation-speech/","name":"President Trump at U.S. Coast Guard Commencement: 'Adversity Makes You Stronger'"}}]}] ```