"Roll Tide," Trump tells Alabama University graduates

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "Men should not play in women's sports," Trump declared, drawing some of the biggest applause of the evening.
61% : Roll Tide," Trump told hundreds of University of Alabama graduates gathered at the campus's Coleman Coliseum for the president's first commencement of his second term.
61% : Trump offered the graduates some lessons from his own lifetime "spent building dreams and beating the odds.
60% : Nick Saban, who won six national football championships at the University of Alabama before stepping down in 2024, took the stage to a raucous, standing applause to introduce Trump.
53% : " Trump won Alabama in 2004 with a commanding 64% of the vote and the state has been home to a number of his trademark large rallies over the past decade, including his earliest rallies that packed stadiums in a sign of his future political strength.
47% : Trump, who has made his war with elite private universities in Democratic-run states a pillar of his education policy, selected the public university in heavily Republican Alabama as the backdrop for his speech.
36% : One-time presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke of Texas and former U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the last Democrat to hold statewide office in Alabama, were slated to address the rally, called a "Tide Against Trump" -- a play on the university's nickname.
24% : "I'm not a politically active person, but I can't just sit around and do nothing as President Trump destroys the country," said Allison Schorr, a 20-year-old University of Alabama student.
19% : The speech comes as the nation's economy and Wall Street are showing signs of stress under Trump's trade wars, and as Trump ousted his national security adviser Mike Waltz in the first major shakeup of Trump's inner circle since he took office in January.

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