Trump Delivers Remarks at the University of Alabama Commencement, May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025 · The White House · 0:58:45
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What happened
President Donald Trump delivered the keynote commencement address at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on May 1, 2025, carried on the White House channel, telling the Class of 2025: “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.”
The President saluted the university’s football tradition and Coach Nick Saban — “What a great coach. Let’s bring him back. No, you have a good coach right now, though” — thanked President Stuart Bell for ten years of service overseeing, as the President stated it, the education of 100,000 Alabama graduates, and noted the university had combined all seven of its commencement ceremonies for the occasion, “the first time they’ve done that.” He greeted Governor Kay Ivey and Senator Tommy Tuberville from the stage.
Why it matters
The address is the President’s first commencement keynote of the term and a set-piece speech to a graduating class in deep-red Alabama — delivered the same evening he hosted the National Day of Prayer at the White House, both events paged in this chronicle.
Sources: The White House, “President Trump Delivers Remarks at the University of Alabama Commencement” (YouTube, May 1, 2025) — official description and broadcast transcript as aired.
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