Graduating students listen to U.S. President Donald Trump deliver remarks at the Coleman Coliseum at the University of Alabama on May 01, 2025, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Trump's remarks come the day before official commencement ceremonies. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"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 angry. Don't be angry," Trump said. "In America, we reject that idea that anyone 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."
Trump shared a range of other advice with the graduating class in addition to touting his political agenda. In between slamming federal judges for blocking him from doing his job and questioning Democrats' defiance of his directives to keep men out of women's sports, Trump urged students to beat the odds – hearkening back to his November election victory – and preserver through difficult challenges.
"Graduates of the Alabama class of 2025 standing here before you in this magnificent arena, it is clear to see the next chapter of the American story will not be written by the Harvard Crimson. It will be written by you – The Crimson Tide," Trump told the students as he concluded his address. "Because this is Alabama. And in Alabama you fight, fight, fight and you win, win win. That's what you know how to do."
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A man wearing a pro-Trump shirt walks outside Coleman Coliseum before commencement ceremonies at the University of Alabama on May 1, 2025, in Tuscaloosa. (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
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