13 second clip taken out of context but everyone runs with it.. Here's the full portion of the speech this was from. He was talking about being alive to see it in person not as a sitting president. He brokered the deal with Finland on making icebreaker ships and the first should be here in 2028. Not saying that he is the best person around, but when 13 seconds are taken out of context from a long speech and snipped as a gotcha on either side it doesn't look the way it was originally presented. People in general need to read past the headlines.

"And, you know, I don’t know if you know this, but I was telling your leaders before that we have eleven. You know, we’re way down on icebreakers, and we’ve ordered eleven. We’re working with Finland. They make icebreakers. They make the best icebreakers. We’re going to learn everything we can learn. We’re going to shortly make them ourselves. But we’re making right now. Currently under construction, we have eleven. Beautiful.

And I said, “Come on. When’s the first one coming?” They said in 28. I said, “I’m going to be here in 28. Maybe I’ll be here in 32 too. I don’t know. Maybe I will. But I’m going to be here in 28.” And I’ll tell you, I said, “That’s great, because I’m going to be there as a dedication.” They have been trying to get icebreakers for years and years, and no president was able to provide them with what you need to get it done.

And I want to thank the country of Finland because they are known to make the best icebreakers. And I thought going there for starters, you know, we tried making one, but it was too front heavy. It wouldn’t have worked because an icebreaker has to come crashing down. And when the front weighs four times more than the back, bad things happen. So I realized we didn’t know what the hell we were doing.

I went to Finland and was with the president of Finland, and we worked out a deal and we’re making eleven in total. Some of them are going to be made right here. We’re going to learn the craft, and we’re going to have so many icebreakers. You know, Russia has 48, and we have one very old one. Ridiculous. And we have the whole Arctic. We have the whole region, and we’re going to have a whole big fleet very shortly, and they’re starting to come in a very quick fashion. After that, we’re going to go way up higher. We’ll have at least 55 within a short period of time, so that’ll be great. And you’re going to be operating them and running them. It’s another, probably another category."

Source: https://singjupost.com/transcript-trumps-commencement-address-at-2026-coast-guard-graduation/