President Trump offered some advice to the graduates of the Coast Guard Academy during his commencement speech Wednesday:

Key quotes:

• "You have to act, and you have to act properly, and you have to learn how to act under great great pressure... you will always have to be ready."
• "I didn't get elected to serve the Washington media or special interests, I got elected to service the forgotten men and women of our country. I will never stop fighting for you and I will never get tired..."
• "Cadets from this day forward, we want everyone to have a clean slate in life, so for any oversights or small violations that may have occurred this year, as tradition holds, I now here absolve you..."
• "My administration, we will be building the first heavy Coast Guard icebreakers... We need them. We need many of them."
• "Under budget and ahead of schedule, we're doing a lot of that... I won't talk about how much I saved you on the F35 fighter jet..."

Why it matters: Similar to his commencement speech at Liberty University, Trump relished the opportunity to address a mainly supportive crowd after a week of being skewered by the media over a number of White House scandals.