Trump Gives First Commencement Address As President…And It’s Horrifying (VIDEO)


President Donald Trump gave his first commencement speech as president this week at Liberty University.

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Some of it was actually sane. At one point, he said:

“Be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures. Does that sound familiar, by the way?”

“Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label. Being an outsider is fine. Embrace the label, because it’s the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference. The more that a broken system tells you that you’re wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead.”

This sounds familiar. He rose from being an outsider to President. Naturally, he would talk about this. However, he got insane at one point when he said:

“In America, we don’t worship government. We worship God.”

Not only was Trump preaching his religious rhetoric, but he was also preaching his disdain for the system and for Washington, D.C. He said:

“In my short time in Washington, I have seen firsthand how the system is broken,” he said. “A small group of failed voices, who think they know everything, and … want to tell everybody else how to live and what to do and how to think. You are not going to let other people tell you what you believe, especially when you know that you are right.”

Trump hasn’t always had a good relationship with the Liberty University student body. The president of the school is Jerry Falwell, Jr., who endorsed President Donald Trump during the campaign. A student group, Liberty United Against Trump, actually wrote a letter saying:

“We are Liberty students who are disappointed with President Falwell’s endorsement and are tired of being associated with one of the worst presidential candidates in American history.”

I’m ashamed that our President is preaching such hateful religious rhetoric while representing the country.

Featured image from Gage Skidmore via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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