Air Force Academy officials have canceled an upcoming annual lecture after discovering the speaker's online history of disparaging President Donald Trump, prompting a donor to pull funding from the series.

Academy alumnus David Jannetta started funding the series in 2008 to bring in writers and artists that have contributed to the understanding of war and encourage critical thinking among cadets.

When Superintendent Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind called Jannetta on Friday to tell him that the school had decided it was not appropriate for University of Utah professor Paisley Rekdal to speak as scheduled in September because she had made disparaging remarks about Trump, Jannetta said he was disappointed and taken aback. Jannetta said the superintendent told him that while Rekdal had a right to

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