President Donald Trump had a bonkers proposal for graduating business majors on Thursday during his commencement address at the University of Alabama.
“I challenge you not merely to use your talents for financial speculation but to 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,” the president declared.
Trump — who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an economics degree — added that business students shouldn’t just build a “strong portfolio” but they should also build a “very, very strong America.”
He’d go on to suggest how future engineers, technicians, mathematicians — and even journalists — could contribute to building a “better” America before pivoting to talk of border security and a need for fair elections, part of the political asides and ramblings he inserted throughout his speech.
Elsewhere in a speech met with hundreds of protesters outside, Trump ranted about political foes, spoke of “internet people” who hated him that now kiss his “ass,” remarked on real estate developer William Leavitt having a “trophy wife” and mused about calling “tariff” the “most beautiful word in the world.”
Social media users clowned the president over his call to action for graduates.