President Donald Trump spoke before this year’s U.S. Military Academy graduates as their commencement speaker on Saturday amid the administration’s crackdown on diversity initiatives and removal of key military leaders.

Trump addressed the crowd while wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat and brought a few graduates on the stage as he praised their achievements.

“You are the first West Point graduates of the golden age of America,” he told the graduates, whom he repeatedly called “winners,” to cheers from the crowd.

The president stressed his administration’s agenda to the graduating class, emphasizing his desire to build in America and expressing his commitment to national security and border protection, including the “Golden Dome” missile defense system Trump announced this week.

“It will be completed before I leave office. And you know you wouldn’t think this, but our enemies are very unhappy about it,” he said.

Trump also took the opportunity to tout his administration’s accomplishments and “Golden Age” agenda, reflecting on themes of patriotism, strength and leadership. He also bashed his predecessors, including former President Joe Biden, for what he said was disrespecting the military.

“Each of you is entering the officer corps at a defining moment in the Army’s history,” he said. “For at least two decades, political leaders from both parties have dragged our military into missions. It was never meant to be.

“In some case, they sent our warriors on nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us, led by leaders that didn’t have a clue in distant lands, while abusing our soldiers with absurd ideological experiments here and at home,” he added.

The president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have called for major changes to military academies since assuming office as part of the administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and these changes took center stage in Trump’s speech.

“We have liberated our troops from divisive and demeaning political trainings,” Trump said. “There will be no more critical race theory or transgender for everybody forced onto the brave men and women in uniform, or on anybody else for that matter, in this country. We will not have men playing in women’s sports.”

In February, shortly after Hegseth was confirmed by the Senate, West Point disbanded several student clubs, including the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Women Engineers, the Latin Cultural Club and the Native American Heritage Forum.

The changes were made “in accordance with recent Presidential Executive Orders, Department of Defense guidance, and the Department of the Army guidance,” according to a memo obtained by ABC News.

Also in February, Trump, who avoided being drafted during the Vietnam War due to what he claimed were bone spurs, dismissed the boards of visitors of military academies, claiming without evidence that the schools were “infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues.”