He insisted on students from the public not to think they were too young to achieve great things before he was over the rates. “Try not to be someone else,” he begged them after attacking the right process for unauthorized immigrants. And he said they should not consider themselves as victims before he distracted in how the 2020 elections were “rigged” against him.
On Thursday evening, President Trump spoke to the graduates of the 2025 of the University of Alabama, hesitating between campaign rally material and an initial speech when he used his earlier political grievances to encourage students to fight for their future.
The students in Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa speeches, flanked by drawing with the text “The American Dream is back”, Mr. Trump told the students that they were “the first graduation course of the Golden Age of America” and used his comeback story to encourage the world to be ambitious about the world.
“In recent years, too many of our young people have really learned to consider themselves as victims and to blame people, and to be angry,” he said. “But in America we reject that idea that someone was born a victim. Our heroes are those who take the lead over their own destination, make their own happiness and determine their own fate, despite the opportunities.”
At points in the address, the President rattled familiar advice for graduates. But Mr. Trump – who acknowledged that he did not use his teleprompter for a large part of the speech – threw in various roots that reflected the Blitz of political performances that he has placed this week to celebrate his 100th day in office. The largely receptive crowd often cheered in the scatter shot injection of problems from the price of eggs to transgend rights, a microcosm of an era in which even the pablum of a diploma cannot escape the politics of the moment.
Some stories from Mr Trump were aimed at how he himself had fallen victim during his political career, because he was eliminated by other politicians who never thought he could become president to possibly prevent another accusation.
He also enjoyed his victories and told his election results, including his commander victory in Alabama, of which he said he felt like “at home” when he started as a candidate in 2015. A large meeting that he kept in the state was one of the first signs that Mr. Trump may have something that has been put outside the coast of the coast.
“So never let anyone tell you that something is impossible,” he said. “Once, once, ever. In America it is impossible is what we all do best. There is nothing you can’t do if you are willing to fight for it.”
“Fighting, fighting, fighting,” he added, and called on a slogan encouraged by a failed murder attack on him on the campaign track last year.
Mr. Trump told the graduates that they ‘had to break the system a little and follow your own instincts’, are apparently furious, flood, the zone strategy that the federal government in chaos and the country has immersed the edge of a constitutional crisis.
“Change is never easy, and the closer you get to success, the more desperation those who have an established interest in the past will resist you,” he said.
Mr. Trump also enjoyed how he experienced much less resistance in his second term, with reference to ‘internet people’ and others who now bow to him. “They all hated me in my first term,” he said, and added that she was kissing him now.
Even in a university city, Mr. Trump was on a relatively friendly territory in the heavy Republican State, which he easily wore in all three of his presidential bids. But there were protests and a petition from the University of Alabama Democrats and the local chapter of the NAACP against the appearance of Mr. Trump drew more than 26,000 signatures.
“Americans wake up again with the fact that this Wannabe monarch wants to rule over us as a king,” said Vick, the president of the University of Alabama Democrats, in a statement in which the protest was announced.
About two miles from Coleman Coliseum, the Democrats of the University held a protest combined by former representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas and former Senator Doug Jones of Alabama.
“We have to appear where the fight is, and that includes places like Alabama, who has been written off by the Democratic party for far too long,” said Mr. O’Rourke in an interview after the protest. “And the message was: people have the power. And when people showed up, as they did during the protest today or on the marches or this no-show town halls, it really starts to move the rest of the country.”
Benard Simelton, the president of the NAACP of Alabama, compared Mr Trump with the former governor of the state, George Wallace, who built his political career as a populist and segregationist.
“He is the president of all people, and yet he has every citizen failed miserably with his division, destructive policy, while giving our Spanish, Latino and other communities horror,” he said in a statement to his visit. “The notorious words of Wallace can still be heard today,” Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow and Segregation Forever. “
But Mr. Trump was enthusiastically received by the thousands of attendees in Coleman Coliseum. Mr. Trump’s address was part of a “special ceremony” before 6,000 students follow a formal diploma on Friday. The pre-commement ceremony was optional for students and tickets were opened for guests.
Despite the falling approval classifications of Mr. Trump, the beginning offered a window to the resilience of much of his support outside Washington, and a measure of the cultural shift in the country that has chosen him.
There were at least as much red “make America great again” hats in the crowd, because there were special red graduation hats that meant the average of the 4.0 grade point of graduate. The crowd broke out in hymns of ‘US’, enjoyed the extensive praise of Mr Trump about his sports teams and roared when he spoke about the ‘clean coasts of the Gulf of America’. They cheered when he spoke about preventing transgender women to play in women’s sports teams, and some then laughed Mr. Trump spent a few minutes spotting matchups involving transgender players.
The warm reception of Mr. Trump came when he attacks the higher education system. Although the administration has so far largely focused on the most elite high schools in the country, the University of Alabama has not been spared.
Last month a doctoral student at the University of Alabama was held by federal immigration authorities, In the midst of the administration campaign to deport non -citizen students for the execution of protest forms. Alireza Doroudi, an Iranian citizen, was legal In the United States and held in Louisiana.
Mr. Trump used the address to make shots at Harvard, which stood up in the government’s efforts to overhaul institutions that regards it as liberally and powerfully. Mr. Trump created that his administration keeps billions behind HarvardAnd the two universities were deposited against each other – as if they were predicting a fight.
“It is clear to see that the next chapter of the American story will not be written by the Harvard Crimson,” he said. “It will be written by you, the Crimson Tide.”