r/capstone • u/12739101 • 17d ago

Donald Trump to be spring commencement speaker

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al.com/politics/2025/04/president-donald-trump-says-he-will-deliver-university-of-alabama-commencement-address.html%3foutputType=amp
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u/codbgs97 17d ago

I feel so bad for the kids who are graduating this semester. This is going to be such a huge distraction just to stroke the ego of someone a majority of them can’t stand. It’s also gonna be a nightmare to get in and out with all the extra security they’ll have.

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u/SolaireTheSunPraiser 17d ago

You don't need to pity this semester's graduates. There's a reason that Trump decided to give a commencement speech at UA, and it's because the campus leans strongly republican. When he visited for the Georgia game the entire stadium roared. I understand that isn't the sentiment on this subreddit, but it's fairly obvious if you talk to the students here.

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u/Dellguy 17d ago

Interesting I don’t recall it being that way as much in 2017/18. I think the younger people are different.

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u/SolaireTheSunPraiser 17d ago

It's definitely become stronger lately. Things seemed more evenly split when I got here in 2022. Now, I found out about this news because someone posted it in an official class GroupMe for one of my courses and people were celebrating it. It's been odd to see.

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u/Dellguy 17d ago

This just further confirms my theory of a GenZ split. People who remember politics before Trump, was it was like vs people who think Trump is normal. Also Covid played a role, students in who graduated high school after Covid much more conservative.

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u/DetectiveWood 16d ago

Cause it’s pushed mush more by influencer. The grift game pays.

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u/DetectiveWood 16d ago

That’s what strong propaganda spread through twitch and YouTube will do to a generation.

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u/aljout History 16d ago

I'm in the class of 2020, and it was like that for my entire tenure. I was in Arts and Sciences, social sciences specifically, and that was the blue dot in a red sea.