Trump, Vance and Hegseth attend Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington
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U.S. President Donald Trump paid tribute to fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.
In his address, he briefly veered into politics boasting of a nation he is "fixing after a long and hard four years."
Trump also wrote on Truth Social that he is considering taking 3 billion dollars grant money previously awarded to Harvard and giving it to trade schools.
U.S. President Donald Trump alongside Vice-President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Arlington National Cemetery marking Memorial Day.
Saluting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as the national anthem played.
Before laying a wreath at the tomb. There are 400,000 fallen service members laid to rest here. Trump spoke about their valour but still veered into politics.
US President Donald Trump said: "Those young men could never have known what their sacrifice would mean to us, but we certainly know what we owe to them.
Their valour gave us the freest, greatest, and most noble republic ever to exist on the face of the Earth. A republic that I am fixing after a long and hard four years.
That was a hard four years we went through. Who would let that happen? People pouring through our borders unchecked."
Meanwhile, Trump wrote on social media that he is considering taking 3 billion dollars previously awarded as grant money for scientific and engineering research away from Harvard University and giving it to trade schools.
Harvard, a private university, has sued to restore the funding saying the cuts are an unconstitutional attack on its free speech rights and is unlawful.
On Friday a judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability to enrol foreign students, a policy that the university said was part of Trump's broader effort
to retaliate against it for refusing to surrender its academic independence.
Harvard enrolled nearly 6,800 international students in it current school year representing 27 percent of total enrolment and a significant part of its revenue from tuition fees.
