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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show earlier this week, I welcome to
the Saturday Bonus Podcast. By the way, earlier this week,
I spoke about President Trump's commencement address at the University
of Alabama. What a great honor for them, and did
he ever seize the moment?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
It was?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
It was incredible, It was just incredible. Esquire Magazine would
have you believe that he treated the graduates to talk
of a trophy wife and mocked transgender athletes, and it
was complete lunacy. That's what Esquire Magazine's Charles P. Pierce wrote.
Because Charles P. Pierce is out of touch and he

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cannot stand boy, that jealousy will get you jealousy. It's
a bitter, bitter thing. It'll make people do crazy things,
he wrote. The President went down to the University of
Alabama on Thursday night to deliver the commencement address. It
was not a event. It was a performance of complete lunacy,

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one of the worst things that campus has seen since
George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door back in nineteen
sixty three. He did caution the graduates not to behave
like victims, and he did not immediately burst into flames.
There is no.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
God.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, we decided to post the entire speech as our
Saturday bonus podcast because not only is that not true,
it's one of the finest commencement addresses I've ever heard,
not because of the flowery language you see the Charles P. Pierces.

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What have you believe? That what we need is another general,
our Secretary of State.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Telling the graduates in the most august terms that the
future is yours and America must preserve a place in
the world it is safe for all, while.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Sending somebody's graduates off to die in war, and while
bringing people from third world countries to this country to
rape their wives and mothers and daughters, to traffic children.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
And drugs, but to do it in a very solemn manner.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Because that's what has been done for a very long time.
But Americans know better now, and so without further ado,
And by the way, if you enjoy this speech or
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(02:37):
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I look forward to hearing from you, and now, without
further adieu, President Trump at the University of Alabama, the
full commencement address in all it's glory.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Thank you, coach. What a nice looking group. This is
what a beautiful group of people, and especially a very
big hello to the University of Alabama. Congratulations to the
class of twenty twenty five. Roll Tide, Roll Tide. There

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are things that happen in life that are very important,
and you always remember where you were when they happened.
As a student at Alabama. You'll always remember where you
were when you're head coach Nick Saban retired, remember that
because he's done such a fantastic job. The last time

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I was here, and that's true with Nick, what a
great coach. Let's bring him back. No, you have a
good coach right now. Though I have a good coach
right now. It was great. But the last time I
was here, the Crimson Tide beat the Georgia Bulldogs forty
one to thirty two. I was here, I got to

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watch it. It was some game. Today, it's 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, Tidletown, USA. That's what

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it's become. And I love this place. Maybe it's because
I won Alabama by forty five points? Could that be
the les in forty five? You know the way they say,
you like the polls have closed in Alabama. Trump has
won Alabama immediately. It was very quick. It was very
very quick and nasty. That's what we like. They put

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all seven 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 ten years of distinguished service. Highly respected gentlemen, but
ten years of service to this great university overseeing the
education of one hundred thousand proud Alabama graduates had something

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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 yours? She's 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 Tommy's

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When he wanted to run for the Senate, you know,
I said, well, you beat Alabama six 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 Saban. I said, that's a
good reason. And he won very easily. He won, but
I'll never forget that. Thanks also to a wonderful person,

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Representative Lisa McLain, a great person, great highly respected Gary Palmer,
Robert Adderholt, Dale Strong, Ronnie Jackson, Ralph Norman, along with
Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, Alabama
Secretary of State Wes Allen, great people, Alabama Senate President

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pro Tam Garland Gudger, 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 parent, grandparents, and family
members because they made this wonderful day possible. Oh yeah,

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great without them. It doesn't happen without them. You probably
aren't here, and you wouldn't have that big, beautiful smile
in your faces. This year, the graduating Alabama class of
twenty twenty five has over six thousand, six hundred graduates.
You're the largest class in school history. Among your ranks
are among the eight hundred first generation college students and

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nearly three thousand students from right here in the great
state of Alabama. Amazing. And this class also includes many
Rhodes Scholars, gold Water Scholars, two hundred and thirteen Merit Scholars,

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and over fifteen hundred students graduating with caps. You know
what that signifies. Four point zero GPA. That's a lot
of students, a lot of students. That's pretty good. I

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know I'd pick I'd look for a red cap. I said,
I want you to work for the beautiful Trump administration,
this lovely administration. In addition, the class of twenty twenty
five is nearly one hundred and thirty active duty service members, veterans,
and members of the University of Alabama rot S. Thank
you very much. Thank you. Everywhere you look you can

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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 eleven graduating seniors on the University
Alabama football team. Where may they be? Where are they?
You just have to look and they're a better foot

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taller than everybody else. Oh great, thank you very much. Congratulations.
Great season, Thank you, thank you, great season. There is
something truly special about the players, coaches, and the fans
who packed the stands at Brian Denny Stadium and proudly

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seeing Dixie Land delight. We like that Alabama has changed
college football forever and inscribed into the history books the
names of Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, four Heisman Trophy winners,
and of course the great Nick Saban. This place is

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truly where legends are made. It really is. It's a
special place. When your president called, we talked about it.
It took me about two seconds to say, algo, 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 battle
But I wanted to do this for the University of Alabama.

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Good isn't good enough? Tough isn't tough enough, and great
isn't 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 has won more games in the last decade

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than any college football team in America. That's not bad,
and it's why I last fall, you beat Auburn for
the fifth year in a row. That's still not going.
That's not The University of Alabama has a brand, and

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that brand is winning. That brand is winning. A great school.
Last year, the Crimson Chaos watched the Tied Hoops make
it to the Final Four for the first time ever.
And this year you built on your incredible record and
returned to the Elite Eight. So not only is Alabama
or great football school, it's now one of the nation's

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best basketball schools. And congratulations, And I love sports, and
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 two SEC titles this year.

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That's something. As long and as long as I'm president,
we will always protect women's sports.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Men will not play in women's sports.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
No way. They say that it's an eighty twenty issue.
Know it's a ninety seven to three issue. I think
now men will not be playing in women's sports. I
said that, and I classified it with a very powerful
executive order. As you know, it's done. The class of

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twenty twenty five was the first to enter the halls
of this university and the aftermath of COVID nineteen. Following
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. You
had freedom. So let's give a big round of applause

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to the leaders of the state who chose liberty over lockdowns.
They did did they did do a good job. As
you know, there are a few campuses in the world
more beautiful than this one, and there are a few

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memories sweeter than the ones you have formed. Really at
this capstone, and at the capstone you'll miss the beautiful
sounds of deady chimes, the excitement of lining the Walk
of Champions, the Saturday tailgates at the quad. As you graduate,
it's natural to reflect on four years of happy memories.
And you've really had happy memories here. You've done a

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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

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it's the Golden eighte This is the Golden Age. We've
done things that nobody thought possible one hundred days yesterday,
one hundred days, and we've done things that nobody thought
even possible. Like many generations before you, you're graduating at

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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

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challenges of the next era. The last four 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 four years we were run by people
that didn't have a clue. They didn't have a clue,

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and I'm trying to be nice when I say it
that way. They allowed our beautiful USA to be laughed at, scorned,
and taken advantage of by everybody. We were ripped off
on trade by nations all 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

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at the start of something very, very big. You're going
to see that very soon. Now, exactly two hundred and
fifty 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,

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and tired dogmas are being swept away by the tide
of history. Ancient wisdom is being discovered, 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 one of boldness, bigor ambition and adventure, and it's

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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

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and for its leaders. But we're turning that all around,
and we're turning it around very fast. We will very
quickly make America great again. This week, we're celebrating the

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most successful first one hundred days of any presidential administration
in the history of our country. And we've been given
a lot of credit for that. But one hundred 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 recorded, and you've seen it, hundreds of thousands

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of people pouring into our country from prisons, from 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 one day, you know, what we had just
recently three three three, and we slashed the number of

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illegal aliens released into the United States by ninety nine
point nine nine nine percent. 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 end. Now, ninety nine point

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nine nine nine percent. How about that. Nobody thought that
was possible. They said you needed legislation. No, 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

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was elected to do. We won by millions of votes.
We won all seven swing states, seven out of seven.
We won three hundred and twelve electoral college votes. They said, oh,
two seventy would be great. We won three hundred and
twelve and two thousand, seven one hundred and fifty counties
versus five hundred and twenty five counties throughout the nation.

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That's why when you look at a map, it's all red.
It's all red. Every inch of it is red. 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

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our country illegally? They want to give them due process.
I don't know. We've created three hundred and fifty thousand
new jobs and brought core inflation down to its lowest
level in many, many years. Energy is down. Look at
your costs of energy way down. Groceries are down, even

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eggs are down. Remember I came in. Remember I was
here a week and they started screaming me the fake news.
Egg prices have doubled. I said, they just got here.
I've been here for four days. I said, tell me
about egg prices. They dive 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,

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they said you won't have eggs for Easter. They wanted
to get 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 straightened 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.

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And prices of eggs have gone down eighty seven percent
since I took office at sub play.

Speaker 5 (21:37):
Right, But the price of food has gone down, and
mortgage rates are down, and gasoline prices just hit one.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Dollar and eighty eight cents a gallon in three states.
Can you believe it? It was at three point fifty,
it was at for we're drilling. Oh, we're drilling, you know,
Drill baby drill, right, drill baby, drill. We do that.
We get it down. We have it going good. And
you know, when energy drops that much, you don't have
much inflation, So I to have inflation. It was just

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announced that in the first quarter, investments in the United
States are up twenty two percent, that we're leading the
whole world and investment. Everybody's pouring into our country with
big dollars. And it's all about November fifth, November fifth
election and tariffs and incentives that we've given that are
going to make this country so much richer. We have

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thirty six trillion dollars in debt that's going to start
to come off it's going to come off rapidly, but
we'll be over eight trillion dollars in investment, with Apple
and others investing five hundred billion dollars each. We've never
had a period of time in two months, because we're
here for three months a little bit more. But give

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me a break for the first month, you know, how
to get a little acclimated. Had to see where the
enemy lies because they're already looking to impeach Trump. You know,
these crazy but let's impeach them for what. We don't
know exactly, but we'll these people are crazy. So we
had to, you know, get our bearings for the first
couple of weeks. So in two months, we had over
eight trillion dollars. Think of it, committed. Nobody's ever seen

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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 I said, you know, 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

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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 heard. But it's making us 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.

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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 all we're
doing is we're doing it to them. But we're doing
it much better. And the US military is suddenly seeing
its best recruiting numbers ever. We've never had numbers like that.

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We now have waiting lists because there is such incredible
spirit in our country. There's a great spirit. And just
think six months ago, and you remembered, it was embarrassing
before the election. Six 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,

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you remember that, And now they're at 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 forces,
our fire departments. We love our fire departments also. We
can never forget our fire departments. But our police forces

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were begging for help. And now they're brimming over with
people and applicants and they're getting great ones. It's amazing
what's taken place. And that's really the spirit each of
the graduates in this arena. We'll soon have the chance
to help lead this project of national renewal, and that's
what it is. It's a national renewal. We suffered so

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badly for four years. We had one 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 got hit hard with inflation during the Biden economy.
It was horrible. We were hit so hard, the worst
probably ever. They say forty eight years. We'll accept that,

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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'll take your place among the greatest generations
in the history of our country. I think you have
a chance to be the greatest generation in the history
of our country because we're turning it around and you

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happen to be available. You're available. That's a good time
to be available. There is 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 twenty twenty

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five is up to the task. Are you up to
the task? You learned a lot about winning here in 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

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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've got to do that to the engineers,

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brilliant you are technicians, scientists, and math majors. We need
your Alabama spirit and competition to keep our country at
the forefront of every single domain America should have the
world's tallest buildings, designed the fastest aeroplanes, build the greatest cars,
do everything the absolute best, better than any other nation

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in the world. And you can do it, and we
will soon land American astronauts on Mars. That will happen.
That will happen. In every field you have studied, there
are problems to be solved and breakthroughs to be made

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to the journalism majors, of which I've had a lot
of problems with it. So I must be honest. I'm
not sure I like them, No I do. I do,
but you're really leading of everything. Because 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. Help save

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the country. So important. Your task is so important, and
it's to build a media that Americans can trust and
remember the people of this country they know the truth
when they hear it. That's why the ratings the approval
numbers of the media. So we need those ratings to

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be one hundred percent. We have to be able to
trust our media. They say you have to have that.
You need strong, strong borders, and 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

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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

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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, prouder, better,
and more unified than ever ever, ever before. It's going

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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 odds, a lot of odds. A
lot of people said, I don't know, but it worked out. Okay,

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where are we? Ohee? 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 just skip over that part? Huh,
that's going to be more interesting than all the other
stuff which was slightly political. Right. I'm going to give
it to you though, just as I see it and

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as I've learned it, the hard way and the easy way. First,
if you're here today and think that you're too young
to do something great, let me 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.

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I was twenty eight when I took my first big
gamble to develop a hotel in midtown Manhattan to Grand Hyatt,
and it worked out incredibly well. But I was very
young at the time. I was like a very young
person in sort of an old person business. Steve Jobs
was twenty one when he founded Apple. Walt Disney was
twenty one when he founded Disney. James Madison, James Monroe,

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Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, they were no older than twenty
five 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,

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but go out and fight. You're going to be very
successful because now is the time to work harder than
you have 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.

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You're at the age when you have the time and
vitality to do really incredible things. If you give, just
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 that address, and he said, I

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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, Okay, you have to. I rarely see
somebody that's successful that doesn't love what he or she does.

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That's way he really like work isn't work. It's fun.
It's 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 show biz. I had a lot of different careers,
but I loved real estate so much, and I was
very successful at real estate because I loved it. I

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learned a lot from my father because I watched him work.
He worked seven He was a workaholic. He worked, he
loved to work. It's a good man. He was a
tough guy, tough as hell. Actually, now that I think back,
I don't know if you could even get away with
that nowadays. He was tough, but he was a good man,
I'll tell you. And he worked seven days a week.
He works Saturday Sundays. It didn't matter. And I learned

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by watching him. He loved his life. He loved what
he was doing at a great long term marriage, a long, long,
many many many years. He beat me on that one.
Now I'm minded very successful, but they Kevin lasted quite
as long it was. It was close to seventy years.
Was a long time, said Pop. You beat me on
that one, But you know what I learned from him

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that he just he loved life and all he did
was work. I see people that don't work hard and
they're miserable, So go out and find But he loved
what he was doing. And you have to find something
that you love, and you have to follow your own instincts.
Listen to your parents are very wise, but you have
to follow your instincts and your heart, your soul, and

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you want to be the very very best you can be.
Treat every day like a home game against orburn fight
like hell, and enjoy doing it. And your coach can
tell you all about that. Third thing is to think big.
You know you're going to do something, you might as
well think big because it's just as tough you can
think small. I know a lot of people they thought small.

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They're very smart. I know others that weren't nearly as smart,
but they had a better picture of the big picture.
Because it's just as hard to solve a small problem
as a big problem, and it's just as much energy
everything else, except the result is going to be a
smaller one. So love what you do, but think big
if it's possible. Now if it's not possible, that's okay too.

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You do something, you have to do something that you love,
you will have all the same headaches and challenges, all
the same delays and setback, So you might as well
do something that's just amazing. America doesn't aim small. Alabama
doesn't aim small, and neither do you. So think big
when possible, think big. Fourth is work hard, work hard,

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never ever stop. An example is a great athlete, actually
Gary player, golfer, great great golfer. He wasn't as big
as other men. He was actually on the small side.
Don't tell him that, friend of mine. Don't tell him
that because he doesn't understand that. But he worked very,

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very hard. He made up for it. He never stopped.
He won one hundred and sixty eight golf tournaments. Think
of that one hundred. I said, Gary, you're winning like
every weekend. Do you have a choke or anything. I
don't know what joke means. And he made a statement
years ago that I read and I thought it was
sort of an incredible statement. He said, It's funny, the

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harder I work, the luckier I get. Right, Think of
the harder I work, the luckier I get. So you
really have to work hard and you're going to be
successful because you have the talent. To get into this
school is not easy to get through. It is even
more difficult you have a lot of talent. Fifth is,
don't lose your momentum. You just want to keep it going.

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And you have to know if you are losing it.
You have to know when you're losing it. So maybe
you stop, and maybe it's time to stop. Listen to
the feedback, think through your plan very carefully, and keep
moving fast. The word momentum is very important. I mean,
I'll just tell you a little story about a great
real estate developer named William Levitt. He built Levittown. You

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might live in eleven Town. He was the biggest developer
of the whole country in the nineteen forties and so
and he built these jobs. He started with one house,
then two houses, and twenty houses, then thousands and thousands
of houses. And a company, Gulf and Western, came along
and they said, we're going to make you an offer
to buy your company. And they offered him a lot

(37:23):
of money, a lot of money, more money than he
ever thought he could make. And he retired, lost his momentum.
He retired, and he led a beautiful life. He had
a wife. I must tell you. It was a second wife.
It was a trophy wife. What can I say? I
don't like telling you everything. But we're all friends, right,
can we talk? We're all friends. He had a trophy wife,

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and he lived a different life. He moved to the
south of France, but he lived it was a life
of tremendous luxury. He had so many millions of dollars.
He was given a fortune for the company. And ten
years went by, and then fifteen years went by, and
he got a call from this big conglomerate, Gulf in
Western and they said, we're not doing well with the purchase.

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Because he used to pick up every nail, every piece
of sawdust, every piece of wood, every chip, everything, and
he'd sell it. It'd make a couple of bucks. Everything
was perfect. They can't do that, you know, these big companies,
they don't do that. You see it a lot when
an entrepreneur sells to a big company and then he
ends up buying the company back for peanuts later on.
Happens a lot. But he was the best at what

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he did. But fifteen years went by and he was
so excited, and they sold him back his company and
he started and he was gonna tear apart the world
because he got bored with a life of luxury. And
he started building and building and building, and the markets
turned on him and he went bad. He lost everything,

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and he went bankrupt, absolutely bankrupt. And it was a
sad story to read. It was such an amazing because
he was so rich. But he paid them and he
bought it for the right price, bought it low. But
he went wild. But he lost his momentum. He wasn't
good at it anymore. And he was at a party
on Fifth Avenue I'll never forget. And it was a

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party of a very very powerful man was having the
party in a magnificent apartment overlooking the park. And I
walked in and there were fifty or so people I recognized,
most of all the biggest business people in the world,
actually very glamorous. I was doing well. I was young,
and I was doing well, and I was invited to
parties like that. And I looked in the corner and

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there was mister William Levitt sitting all by himself on
a chair, looking very dlum. Nobody was talking to him.
Because you'll find that when you're not successful, you lose
a lot of friends. It's not a good situation. But
there was nobody talking to But I wanted to talk
to him because I was in the real estate business
and he was, and most of these people were in

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different businesses. And I went over and talked to him,
and I said, how are you, mister Lovit? He goes donald,
He knew who I was. Not well. I'm not well.
I said, so can you come back? He said, no, son,
I lost my momentum. I shouldn't have done it. I

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lost my momentum. And I never forgot that expression. He
lost his momentum. If he would have kept going instead
of selling and relaxing and going into a different life,
he probably would have been three times bigger than he was.
But he lost his momentum. And you have to know
when it's your time. I mean, there'll be a time
when you do lose. You see it with fighters. You

(40:38):
see it with a lot of people. They have a
great record and they retire and then four years later
they say I'm going back. I can beat that guy,
and they get knocked to hell and it's not good.
It's not good. So he lost his momentum. You have
to know when your momentum time is up. I call
it momentum time. But follow your momentum. Very important word.

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You don't hear it from too many, but I've seen it.
I've seen it a lot. Number six. If you want
to change the world, you have to have the courage
to be an outsider. In other words, you have to
take certain risks and do things a little bit differently. Otherwise,
if that weren't the case, everybody would be successful. Does
it work that way? Progress never comes from those satisfied

(41:23):
with the failures of a broken system. It comes from
those who want to fix the broken system, and you'll
make the bigger money. You'll make them more success by
acting that way. The other way maybe more secure, but
if you want to go to the top, you're just
never going to do it unless you break the system.
Change is never easy, and the closer you get to success,

(41:46):
the more ferociously those with a vested interest in the
past will resist you. They want to resist. So I
just say trust me on that, because I know you
really do. You have to break the system a little
bit and to follow your own instincts. But if your
vision is right, nothing will hold you down. Nothing. You

(42:06):
have to have the right vision. If you look at
some of these Internet people. I know so many of them.
Elon is so terrific. But I know now all of them.
You know, they all hated me in my first term,
and now they're kissing my ass. You know, General, it's true,
all of them. It's true. It's amazing. It's nicer this

(42:33):
way now. In the first you know, they didn't know
what happened because I won an election. That you know,
there was never a businessman that won a presidential election.
Out of one hundred percent, eight percent were generals and
ninety two percent were politician, not even admirals, not even

(42:54):
just generals, the eight generals, General Washington, General Grant, Generals,
General eisenh But eight percent were generals and ninety two
percent were politicians. And when I ran, everyone said, well,
I can't win me. He's a businessman. That's not going
to work. And you know, but you have a natural
instinct for things. I guess I had a natural inkage.

(43:15):
I said to somebody, was I a better businessman or politician?
And they said, well, there are a lot of guys
that made a lot of money, but there's only one
guy that became president that was a businessman. So I
guess you're a better politician. But I don't think of
myself as a politician. I think of myself as a businessman,
and I'm proud of that. And I've applied business instinct

(43:36):
and that's why I think you're seeing us doing so well.
So number seven is to trust your instincts common sense.
You can go very far in life with common sense.
And I applied that to politics because some of these things,
like they had open borders, let everybody in the whole

(43:57):
world flow into our country. That's not common sense. Had
transgender for everybody. We ended that if you noticed, okay,
but they had transgender for everybody. They said, I said,
this is not working. This is not going to work.
As I said before, you know, so simple men playing

(44:20):
in women's sports. Did you ever see some of the records?
Did you ever see some of these boxing matches? You know,
we have to protect these women are great athletes, but
we have to protect. If you looked at the Olympics
where they had transition to people going into the boxing,
where the women had boxing, and they had a great champion,
a female boxer, I mean, after one punch, you walked

(44:42):
back to the corner. So I can't get hit like that.
I've never been hit like that before. You look at
all the volleyball players that have been hurt so badly
with balls that I hit at levels that they've never
seen before. But the greatest is like weightlifting. You ever
see the weightlifting where they have a record that wasn't
broken in eighteen year years and they have should I imitate?

(45:02):
You know, my wife gets very upset when I do this.
She said, it's sir, darling, it's not presidential, and yeah,
but people like it. Should I do it or not?
All right, I'm in trouble when I get home. But
that's okay, what the hell. I've been in lots of
trouble before. But now you look at the weightlifting where

(45:24):
eighteen years it stands, and they have this young woman
and her parents are right where you are in the
front row, and they're so proud of her, and it's
like two hundred and nine pounds and she's gonna lift that.
The record stood for eighteen think of it, eighteen years,
and they put an eighth of announce here and an
eighth of announced here, a little tiny little bit, and

(45:47):
she's gonna do it. Mom, I love you, I'm gonna
do it for you, mom. And she goes and she
lives and she gets it. Mom. I'm gonna do it, mom.
Ah canto. And then a guy comes along, or a
gal or whatever, a transitioned person comes along, and he

(46:14):
was a failed weightlifter as a man, but he comes
along two hundred and six pounds. They put the little
thing on and he goes boom boom and breaks a record,
like by one hundred and nineteen pounds. That's that right.
The other one is the swimming. You've heard me talk

(46:35):
about it. Great swimmers, and you know they rose to
the top women swimmers, and they grew up together, and
they are Olympic class swimmers, and they're qualifying for some
big tournament. And now the race is getting ready to start,
the big race. And the one young lady she was
going to set the record. She fought all her life

(46:57):
to set the record, just to win it by one
one ninth of a second. Think of that one ninth
I don't like those odds. One ninth of a second. Right,
But she looks to the left and she sees all
the friends that she grew up with down in California,
from all over the country. They were all the best swimmers.
Then she looks to the right and she sees the
same thing. But there's a person next to who's a giant,

(47:21):
and she looks like, who is that? I don't recognize
that person? That was the person that transitioned, and he
had the wingspan of wilt the stilt Chamberlain, if anybody
knows what And as you know, what happened, she was very,
very badly injured in that meat because he went by

(47:44):
her so fast that she was windburned. They had to
take her. She got serious windburn He flew back and
forth and back and forth, and she didn't know what,
but she got that hell knocked out of her. Knowing
that I'm only kidding. She wasn't windburned. She was just
beaten a lot. Where the race did you see the
race where they had the best female runners and they

(48:06):
had a guy who was a decent runner a long
distance race and he won by five hours and nineteen seconds.
You know, normally you win by like twelve seconds two
seconds a quarter for a secon. He won by five
hours of nineteen seconds. It's crazy, and you know, honestly,
it's demeaning for women, very demeaning. These are great athletes.

(48:26):
It's very demeaning, and we're going to protect women. We're
gonna protect women, We're gonna protect everybody. So now that
I'm in trouble with my wife, I'm going to blame
the University of Alabama asking me to go through with
that stuff. But it's pretty descriptive, isn't it. Really? It

(48:50):
helps when you know that borders are not races, speech
is not violence, America is good. Terrorists are bad, men
can never be women, police are not criminals, and criminals
are not victims. Eighth, everybody should believe, thank you, thank

(49:15):
you very much. Everybody should believe in the American dream.
It's real, it's there, and it's right before you. We're
coming back to the American born night. Think of yourself
as a winner. The power of positive thinking. Doctor Norman

(49:39):
Vincent Peel from many years ago wrote a book The
Power Positive Thinking, and there is a lot to it,
The Power of positive Thinking. Don't consider yourself a victim,
consider yourself a winner. In recent years, too many of
our young people have really been taught to think of
themselves as victims and blame people and be don't be angry.

(50:01):
But in America, we reject that idea that anyone who
is born a victim. Our heroes are the ones who
take charge of their own destiny, make their own luck,
and determine their own fate despite the odds, despite all odds,
that's what happens. They take Really, they're given a little chance,
in many cases, very little chance of success, and they

(50:22):
become the most successful people in the world. Whether you
were born rich or poor, black or white, male or female.
In America, anyone can be a winner. And our whole
country will be cheering you on. And I'll be at
the front of the line cheering you on, especially because
you come from this incredible university. And next is to

(50:48):
be an original. The old time greats were people who
had the confidence to be a little different. Teddy Roosevelt,
Douglas Magarth, George Patten, Amelia Earhart, Any Oakley, Muhammad Ali,
and so many others, so many others, far too many
to name, live their lives with pride, personality, and flair.

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God only created one of you. Remember that God created
one of you. You're all different summer close, but nobody
is the same. You're one of a kind, So don't
try to be someone else. Just be yourself and Finally,
and most importantly, never ever give up. Never give up,

(51:36):
never give up. And I've learned anything in life, and
it's so true, one of the most important things you
can learn. If you just went a little bit longer,
if you just held out a little bit longer, you
would have been successful. Of the stories of that are legend.
But I've learned that perseverance is everything. So whatever happens,

(51:58):
no matter where you are life, stay optimistic and just
keep pushing forward. Just don't stop, never ever give up.
Victory is right around the corner. I've watched coach Saban
win games that really were virtually over. You've seen it,
you've been in the stands. He won a couple of games.
I said, Coach, you got lucky as hell. He said,

(52:19):
I didn't get lucky. I'm a talented guy, you know,
those little touchdowns that come out of nothing. He's amazing.
But he's a guy that doesn't quit and doesn't know
what the word quit even means. He couldn't define it.
He took victory out of the jaws of defeat. And
you can do that too. At every stage in my career.

(52:40):
My enemies, of which there were many and probably are
right now. I can think of a couple of people
that don't like me too much right now. But they
said that they have to do everything they can to
keep me from winning, to keep me from making it.
And I'm representing you, so I have to make it.
I have big shoulders, but these are big shoulders. I

(53:01):
have to win for you. I'm not winning for myself.
I'm winning for you. Do you remember when they said
that Donald Trump will never become president of the United States?
Remember Barackussein Obama said that Barack Cussein Obama, Donald Trump
will never be president. Like fifty other politicians said that
where are they now? Let me say, oh that they are.

(53:21):
Where are they now? But here I am standing before
you as the forty fifth and forty seventh president. You
heard that a lot. But against all odds, I did
great in twenty sixteen. Twenty sixteen, How great was that?

(53:43):
And then I did much better in twenty twenty. Sorry
the election was rigged, probably, but it was a rigged election.
And then in twenty twenty four I made it too
big to rig. I said, we got to do this again.
We got to do this, said that, and we made
it too big to rig. We made it that was

(54:06):
a great expression. I said, you got to go and vote.
Even though I was leading big in the polls. I said,
it doesn't matter. You got to make it too big
to rig. And they did. They went out and they
voted and voted and voted, and we won the whole thing.
And it was so good and it's such a great
mandate for our country. That's the important thing. So never
let anyone tell you that something is impossible, ever, ever, ever,

(54:29):
in America. The impossible is what we all do best.
There is nothing you cannot do if you're willing to
fight for it. You gotta fight, fight, fight. Oh i've
heard that expression funny, that's not here, that's not here

(54:53):
in the Actually, most of what I've said tonight is
not have the telepreupter. That's all right. Isn't nice of
a president that says doesn't need a telibrupter? And those
sort of can sort of have a little fun because
I feel that this is home. You know, it's been
such a great state for me. I feel it's home.
When they said Alabama, I said, that has a good
ring to me. But it's something nice about somebody that

(55:16):
doesn't need a teleprompter. Isn't it. But for the past
four years, you've lived in a state known for its fighters,
it's champions, and it's warriors, and you've lived in the
great state of Alabama, one of the greatest of them all.
From Huntsville to Birmingham, from Montgomery to Mobile, and from
right here in Tuscaloosa to the gleaming shores of the

(55:47):
Gulf of America. Alabama, that's a nice thing. Everybody loves it.
I wouldn't say Mexico is thrilled, but you can't have
them all. They're not thrilled. You continue the legacy of Alabama.

(56:08):
Legends who blaze the trails, won the games till the
fields forged, the steals, built the ships, and gave us
the victories that built America and changed the world. The
entire world was changed by our victories. This is the
state that gave us the might of the Iron City,
the power of the Saturn five rocket, and the roaring

(56:31):
engines of Talladega. Talladega. We love Tallaga, We love Talladega.
This is the state that gave us nothing but victory.
The state of some of the greatest heroes and history,
like William Mays, Jesse Owens, Joe Lewis, your coach, Nick Sabin,

(56:53):
Hank Williams, and many others. Some of you will leave
here today and travel the world, but you will always
know that this state as this is really sweet home Alabama, right,
It's always going to be your place. I sort of
feel that way myself because from a political standpoint, it's
just been we connected from day one. From the first

(57:15):
day I set my foot on this beautiful soil, I
connected with Alabama. And here in Alabama, we believe that
the men and women who built this country are heroes,
and that America's destiny is to be the single greatest
nation on the face of the earth, and we're bringing
it back at speed that nobody thought was possible. We
believe in freedom and family, God and country. We cherish

(57:39):
our Constitution, We revere our Bible, and we salute our
great American Flag. We honor our police, we respect our veterans,
and we always stand for were our one and only

(58:02):
national anthem. We love ourth we love our national anthem.
We believe in strong parents, strong values, strong communities, and
very strong borders. And we believe that the United States
Military is the greatest force for peace and justice. The

(58:23):
world has ever known. We have a great military, we
just had people that didn't know how to lead it.
We believe the South is beautiful, Alabama is great, and
America is our home. We believe in the SEC and
the USA graduates of the Alabama Class of twenty twenty

(58:50):
five standing here before you in this magnificent arena, it
is clear to see the next chapter of the American
story will not be written the Harvard Crimson. It will
be written by you, the Crimson Tide. True.

Speaker 6 (59:07):
That's true, that's true, that's true.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
I thought that was rather clever. If you look at
what's going on. You know, they get their five billion
dollars a year. That is not going to be so forthcoming, now,
can you. Wasn't that a clever one though? I would
think of that because this is Alabama, and at Alabama

(59:43):
you fight, fight, fight, and you win, win, win. That's
what you know how to do. Congratulations to you all. Congratulations.
So there's great class of champions. God bless you and
God bless America. Thank you all very much.

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