FULL REMARKS: President Trump delivers commencement speech at University of Alabama

FULL REMARKS: President Trump delivers commencement speech at University of Alabama

47th president of the United States. Donald. J, Trump. Thank you, coach. What a nice looking group, this is. A very big hello to the University of Alabama. Congratulations to the class of 2025. roll tide. roll tide. There are things that happen in life. That are very remember where you were when they happened. as a student at Alabama. You’ll always remember. Where you were, when you were. head coach. Nick Sabin retired. remember that. Because he’s on such a fantastic. job. The last time. I was here and that’s true with. Nick. What a great coach. What a, let’s bring him back. No, you have a good coach right now, though. That’s right now. It’s great. But the last time I was here, the Crimson Tide beat to 34. Watch it. That was some game. Today is my pleasure to return to this campus as the first president. ever to deliver the keynote Commencement address to This truly great. American. University. It’s a great School. And there’s nowhere. I’d rather be. than right here in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Title Town, USA. That’s what it’s become. And I love because I want Alabama by 45 points. Could that be the reason for that? like, uh, the polls have closed in Alabama, Trump is 1, Alabama, mediately Sorry, quick. It was very, very quick and nasty. That’s what we like. They put all 7 of your commencement ceremonies. I don’t know if you know this but they put them all together first time ever. So I better do well. Or I’m in big trouble. but I want to thank president. Bell for his 10 years of distinguished service. highly respected gentleman. But 10 years of service to this, great. University overseeing the education of 100,000 proud Alabama Graduates at record. to have on your record. I also want to thank Alabama, Governor K Ivy, who’s here with us. And she’s a fantastic. water. Is she Where is She’s are around here, someplace. She’s here. I just took a picture. I said you’re doing a great job. along with the very wonderful man, A friend of mine. Senator Tommy tuberville Where’s Tommy? um, when he wanted to run for the Senate, you know, I said well, you beat Alabama, 6 times in a row, how can you run for the Senate? He said, well, I just look at him and say, well, I was responsible for them getting Nick Sabin. I said, that’s a good reason. Anyone very easily. he won. But I’ll never forget that. Thanks also to a wonderful person. representative. Lisa mlan had a great person, Gary Palmer. Robert. aderholt, Dale, strong, Ronnie Jackson Ralph Norman. along with lieutenant governor. will Ainsworth. Alabama Attorney, general, Steve Marshall Alabama. Secretary of State. West Alabama, Senate, President, protem Garland. goodger. Chancellor. Sid Trant. and members of the University of Alabama Board of Trustees. but most importantly, and they would agree with this. Let’s give a big round of applause to your incredible parents grandparents, and family members. Because they made this wonderful day possible. doesn’t happen. without them You probably aren’t here and you wouldn’t have that big beautiful smile in your face. This year, the graduating Alabama Class of 2025 has over. 6. graduates. You’re the largest class in school history. among your ranks are among the 800 first generation. college students and nearly 3,000 students. from right here in the great state of Alabama. and this class also includes many. Road holars. Goldwater, Scholars. 213. Merit Scholars? and over? 1500 students graduating with red caps. You know what That signifies. 4.0 GPA, that’s a lot of students. A lot of students. It’s pretty good. I know who I’d pick. I’d look for a red cap. I say, I want you to work for the beautiful Trump Administration. This lovely Administration. in addition, the class of 2025 is nearly 130 active duty members of the University of Alabama. ROTC. Thank you very much. Thank you. see the fierce Spirit of this school. But nowhere, more clearly than in your world. class. Athletics is nothing like it probably. there’s no school like it. That’s why I would like to recognize. the 11 graduate seniors on the University of Alabama. football team. where may they be? Where are they? You just have to look and they’re about a foot taller than everybody else. Oh great, Thank you very much. congratulations. Great season. Thank you. Thank you. Great season. There’s something truly coaches and the fans who pack the stands, at Bryant Denny Stadium. and proudly sing. Dixie Land Delight. We changed college football forever and inscribed into the history books. The names of Bear Bryant Joe namuth. and of course, the Great Nick Sabin. for made it really is is a special place. when you president, called, we talked about it. it took I’ll go I wasn’t looking to do it. and we are busy, You know, we’re winning a lot of battles right now. we love winning, don’t we love winning? We’re winning a lot of for the University. Enough. and great is in great enough. The Crimson Tide does not rest. Does not quit, and does not stop winning until It’s all. time, you know, it’s all time. you’re always winning and you’re going to keep winning. That’s why the University of Alabama. football team is 1 more games. in the last decade. than any college football team in America. That’s not bad. And it’s why last 4 you beat Auburn for the fifth year in a row. That’s Dr. It’s not bad. has a brand and that brand is winning. that brand is winning. great School. last year, the Crimson chaos, watched the tide Hoops, make it to the final 4 for the first time ever And this year, you built on your incredible record and returned to the Elite 8. so, not only is Alabama, a great football school. it’s now 1 of the nation’s best basketball schools and congratulations. And I love. sports. And I I think I should have come here. I think I should have come here. Congratulations. as well to the women’s track and field team for winning. 2 SEC, titles this year. That’s something. as long. and as long as I’m President, we will always protect women’s sports Men will not play in women’s sports. they say that it’s an 8020 issue. Know it’s a 973 issue. I think. now, men will not be playing in women’s sports. We’re already. I said that and I classified it with a very powerful executive order, as you know, it’s done. the class of 2025 was the first to enter the halls of this. University and the aftermath of Co 19. follow a difficult, senior year of high school. Many of you came here to Tuscaloosa from around the country and for the very first time, you experienced something called freedom, yet, freedom, so, let’s give a big round of applause to the leaders of the state who chose Liberty over lockdowns. They did. a good job, Good job. As you know, there are a few campuses in the world more beautiful than this 1. And there are a few memories sweeter than the ones you have. formed really at this. Capstone and at the Capstone, you’ll miss the beautiful sounds of Denny Chimes The excitement of lining, the Walk of Champions, the Saturday tailgates at the quad as you graduated, it’s natural to reflect on 4 years of happy memories and you’ve really had happy memories here. You’ve done a lot of winning winning is a good thing to do. But today, I’m also asking you to look forward to really something very very bright. and more promising. and it’s going to be an even more promising tomorrow. I promise you that. You’re the first graduating class of the golden. age of America, we’re in the Golden Age, you watch? the Golden Age? This is the Golden Age We’ve done things that nobody thought possible. 100 days yesterday. 100 days. And we’ve done things that nobody thought even possible. Like many generations before. you, you graduating at an exciting time for our nation, a period of both. extraordinary. change and incredible potential. And what will be unbelievable growth. you’re going to see that very soon. You’re going to see it starting very, very soon. the whole world is talking about it. Our country has always been. defined by its ability to reform and reinvent itself to meet the challenges of the next era. The last 4 years were not good for our country. but don’t let that scare you. It was an aberration. We’re run by people who, Truly at that time. 4 years. we were run by people that didn’t have a clue. They didn’t have a clue, I’m trying and I’m trying to be nice when I say it that way. They allowed our beautiful USA to be left at scorned and taken advantage of by everybody. We were ripped over the world. Both friend and Foe and oftentimes a friend was far worse on trade than the foe. But those days are over. You’re at the start of something very, very big. You’re going to see that very soon now, exactly. 250. years After the first Patriots, stood and fought at Lexington, and Concord we’re in the midst of another kind of Revolution a revolution of winning and a revolution of Common Sense. Common sense. Everywhere you look? broken systems corrupt institutions. and tired Dogmas are being Swept Away by the tide of History. Ancient wisdom is being rediscovered and the best. and strongest traits of America are coming back. For all. to see bigger better, and greater. than ever coming back. and they’re coming back. Fast the spirit of our age. is 1 of boldness vigor ambition and adventure. and it’s exciting to be you. and Young. oh I’d pay you a lot of money to have your age. You have a great future, the people have rejected the voices of a failed establishment, you saw that in the election. we’ve turned the page on endless Wars crippling debt open borders ruinous inflation. and the lack of respect for our country and for its leaders. but we’re turning that all around. and we’re turning it around. quickly. make America great again. This week. we’re celebrating the most successful first. 100 days of any presidential Administration. in the history of our country. And we’ve been given a lot of credit for that, but a 100 days does not a full term make but we’re going to do even better as we move along in a matter of weeks, we’ve achieved the lowest number of illegal. border crossings ever. it hundreds of thousands of people pouring into our country from prisons from uh mental institutions from gangs and all over the world. not just in South America. You’d see hundreds of thousands of people. poor across in 1 day. You know what we had just recently 3 3, 3. and we illegal aliens. released into the United States. by 99.999%. and, you know, If that number is wrong, the fake news, which is all over the place today. Is going to be. correcting me before I get to the next about that? Nobody thought that was possible. They said you needed legislation. know you just needed a new president. That’s what you needed. but, despite the tremendous, success as you’ve been reading the courts are trying to stop me from doing the job that I was elected to do. We won by millions of votes, we won all 7 swing States 7 out of 7. We? won. 312 Electoral College votes, They said, oh 270 would be great. We went. 312 and 27. counties versus 525 counties throughout. the nation. That’s why. When you look at a map, it’s all red. it’s all red. every inch of it is read a little couple of blue dots. But they have to let us do the job that the voters want us to do judges. are interfering. Supposedly based on due process. But how can you give due process to people who came into our country illegally? They want to I don’t know. We’ve created. 350,000 new jobs, and brought core inflation down to its lowest level In many, many years. energy is down. Look at your cost of energy way down. groceries are down. Even eggs groceries down. Remember, I came in remember I was here a week and they started screaming at me, the fake news. egg prices have doubled. I said they just got here. I’ve been here for 4 days. I said, tell me about egg prices. They doubled. Well, they didn’t double under me. I just got there. and we did a great job. We brought down the cost of eggs. In fact, they said you won’t have eggs for Easter. They wanted to give we have a big Easter egg hunt at the White House. You, saw it, just take place. and they thought we should order thousands of plastic eggs. plastic. They said, no, we’ll do it and we straighten out the egg situation very quickly. Our great Secretary of agriculture. Did a fantastic job, and we had so many eggs we didn’t know what the hell to do with them. And prices of eggs have gone down. 87%, since I took office, that’s something like But the price of food has gone down and mortgage rates are down. and gasoline prices. just hit. 1 dollar. and 888 cents a gallon in 3 states. Can you It was at Fort. We’re Drilling. uh, we’re Drilling. you know, drill, baby drill, right? We drill baby drill. We do that. We got it down. you know when energy drops that much you don’t have much inflation. so it to have inflation. It was just announced that in the in the United States. are up. 22% that we’re leading the whole world. and investment Everybody’s pouring into our country with big dollars. And it’s all about November 5th and November 5th, election. and tariffs. And incentives that we’ve given, That are going to make this country so much. richer. And we have 36 trillion dollars in debt. that’s going to start to come off. It’s going to come off rapidly but we’ll be over. 8. trillion dollars in investment. with apple and others investing. 500 billion dollars each We’ve never had a period of time in 2 months because we’re here for 3 months, a little bit more. but give me a break for the first month, you know, we had to get a little acclimated had to see where the enemy lies because they’re already looking to impeach Trump. You know, these crazy people. let’s impeach him for what? We we’ll try. it for these people are crazy. so, we had a, you know, get our bearings for the first couple of weeks. So, in 2 Trillion dollars, think of it. committed. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. There’s never been anything like it in any country at any time and it’s all because they want to avoid the tariffs. We want to get here fast. and, uh, I said, you know, a number of times. tariff. It’s the most beautiful word in the world and I got absolutely decimated by the fake news. They said, What About Love What about your wife? What about your parents? What about religion and God so, I said, all right, it’s the fifth nicest word I’ve ever seen. And since I’ve done that, I’ve been in good shape, nobody’s bothered me. They’ve been very nice. so, it’s the fifth, most beautiful word I’ve ever as very rich. And you’ll be seeing the results pretty soon sooner than most people think. because that’s what other countries have been doing to us. just so you understand they were tariffing the hell out of us. We couldn’t sell cars in Europe. We couldn’t sell cars in China. We couldn’t sell cars in Japan or anywhere else. We couldn’t do anything. And doing it to them, but we’re doing it much better. And the US military has suddenly seeing its best recruiting numbers ever. We’ve never had numbers like that. We now have waiting lists, because there is such incredible spirit in our country. There’s a great spirit. and just think 6 months ago and you remembered it was embarrassing. before the election 6 months ago, we were hearing and reading that numbers of those joining our military were at the worst levels ever. We’ve never had anything like it, right? You remember that? And now there are the best levels ever. We have waiting lists to get into the military. We couldn’t fill the positions. and that included in our police departments. We love our fire departments. Also we can never forget our fire departments. but our police for help. and now, they’re brimming over with people. and applicants and they’re getting great ones. It’s amazing. What’s taking place? and that’s really the spirit, each of the will soon have the chance to help lead this project of national renewal. and that’s what it is. It’s a national renewal we so badly We had 1 of the greatest economies we actually had the greatest economy in the history of our country during the first term of trump. and then we uh, we got hit hard with inflation. During the Biden economy. It was horrible. we were hit so hard the worst. probably will accept that. But I would say ever, you’ll Embrace this moment and you’ll step forward with strength and grit faith. and patriotism to put America, on a new trajectory for your children. And then you will take your place among the greatest Generations in the history of our country. I think you have a chance to be the greatest Generation country. because we’re turning it around and you happen to be available. That’s a good time to be available. There are sometimes when it’s not so good to be available. But this is a great time. I’m absolutely confident that the Alabama Class of 2025 is up to the task. Are you up to the task? You learned a lot about winning here at Alabama and now we need you to help. win for America. For the business. majors here today. I challenge you not merely to use your talents for financial speculation. But to apply your great skills that you’ve learned, and had to forging the steel and pouring the concrete of New American factories. plants shipyards and even cities which are going up all over our country. Don’t just build a strong portfolio. Build a very very strong. America and you’re going to do that. To the engineers. Brilliant. You are math majors. We need your Alabama. spirit. competition to keep our country at the Forefront of every single domain. America should have designed the fastest airplanes, build the greatest cars. Do everything the absolute best. better than any other nation in the world and you soon land American. will happen That will happen. In every field, you have studied. there are problems to be solved and breakthroughs to be made. to the journalism majors of which I’ve had a lot of problems with Let’s be honest, I’m not sure I like them No, I do. I do. but, you really we we need a great and Free Press, we need a brilliant press. they’re like a watchkeeper. They’re very important. and you can go out and take it down a new track. Oh, save the country. So important. your task is so important. and it’s to can trust and remember. The people of this country. they know the truth. When they hear it, that’s why. the uh, Ratings the approval low. We need those ratings to be 100%. We have to be able to trust our media. I say you have to have that. you need. strong you need. really free Fair. clean elections. You need those things but the media is a big part of it. in the world of health and Medicine. There is an exciting New Movement. to get poisons out of our food supply. Keep toxins out of our government. Clean out our environment and make America healthy again. And I think Bobby’s going to do a great job. don’t you? I think so. I think he’s the guy we needed. and in government, It is the task of your generation to replace bureaucracy, graft and waste with a new system that defends American freedom. These are Big tasks before you, but the reward for your hard work will be the United States of America. is stronger. prder better. and more unified than ever. ever ever before. it’s going to be As you embark on this Great adventure. Let me share some of the biggest lessons I’ve learned from a lifetime spent building dreams and beating the odds I beat a lot of I beat a lot of odds. A lot of odds, a lot of people said, I don’t know. But it worked out, okay? where are we? Oh, dear, I’m president How did that happen? now, you’re going to be in the same position, but some of the, would you like to hear some of the ideas? or should I just skip over that part, huh? It’s going to be more interesting than all the other stuff, which was slightly political, right? I got to give it to you, though. Just as I say it, and as I’ve learned it, the hard way and the easy way first, If you. are here today, and think that you’re too young to do tell you that you are wrong. You’re not too young. You can have great success at a very young age. You’re all very young in America with drive and ambition Young people can do anything. I was 28 when I took my first big gamble to develop a hotel in Midtown, Manhattan, the Grand Hyatt And it worked out incredibly well. but I was very young at the time I was like a very young person. and sort of an old person business. Steve Jobs was 21 when he founded Apple Walt Disney was 21 when he found a Disney. James Madison. James Monroe, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson they were no older than 25 when they began the journeys that etched their names into the history books for all time. so, to everyone here today, don’t waste your youth go out and fight right from the beginning, from the day you leave. this incredible. University. Go out and fight fight tough Fight Fair. But go out and fight, you’re going to be very successful because now is the time to work harder than you’ve ever worked before. push yourself further than you have ever. pushed yourself before. find your limits and then smash through everything. go and smash through. You’ve watched that football team smash through You’re going to do the same thing. you’re at the age when you have the time. and vitality to do really incredible give it your all you’ll look back and a decade from now. You’ll be astounded by what you’ve achieved. You’ll remember this day. You remember when the guy named Trump? was giving the commencement address and he said, I could do it and guess what I did, I think you’re going to remember that very fondly, I hope so. second of all, and very importantly you have to love what you do. see somebody. that’s successful That doesn’t love what he or she does. That’s way. you really like work Isn’t work. It’s fun. It’s, uh, I find it fun. I work all the time and I find it fun if I didn’t find it fun, I wouldn’t be successful Whether it was real estate or or in shops, I had a lot of different careers, but I loved real estate so much. And I was very successful. in real estate because I loved it. I learned a lot from my father. because I watched him work.

President Trump’s spring commencement address to graduating seniors at The University at Alabama.

“What a nice looking group this is,” Trump said to open his speech. “There’s nowhere I’d rather be than Tuscaloosa.”

“You’re the first graduating class of the golden age of America,” the president told the graduates.

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