Trump offers advice to University of Alabama graduates in speech interspersed with politics - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : " The 21-year-old from Cartersville, Georgia, said she attended Trump's first presidential inauguration in 2017 when she was a freshman in high school, along with her father, who she said loves Trump.
65% : " Although Trump described the speech as a commencement address, it is actually a special event that was created before graduation ceremonies that begin Friday.
63% : Saban said Trump was a gracious host.
63% : In his remarks Thursday, Trump noted that he was marking his 100th day in office and touted the plummeting levels of arrests at the southern U.S. border as evidence that his immigration policies were working.
62% : " The president of the University of Alabama, Stuart Bell, told graduates before Trump took the stage that Thursday night's event was all about them.
54% : One-time presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke of Texas and former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, the last Democrat to hold statewide office in Alabama, addressed the attendees at their event, called a "Tide Against Trump" -- a play on the university's nickname.
54% : After his stop in Alabama, Trump is scheduled to travel to Florida for a long weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
51% : But after talking up his tariff plans, sharing his successes from his first 100 days in office and bashing the media, Trump turned back to the graduates, offering 10 pieces of advice drawn from his life and career, such as "Think of yourself as a winner," "Be an original" and "Never, ever give up.
42% : Trump mostly went in a different direction.
41% : O'Rourke told the rally that Trump was trying to make the students' graduation "all about him, true to form."
30% : "But how can you give due process to people who came into our country illegally?" Trump has a long history of injecting such rhetoric into his remarks at venues where traditional political talk was seen as unseemly.
22% : Aidan Meyers, a 21-year-old junior studying biology at the university, said he was upset by the decision to let Trump speak at a graduation-related event.
16% : " "The power of people works in this country, even against Donald Trump," O'Rourke said.

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