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Towlie

(5,322 posts)
Sat May 13, 2017, 07:04 PM May 2017

Trump needed to hear the applause and adulation that he craves, so he went to Liberty University.

The president’s mood had been low due to “going a full week without hearing the applause and adulation that he craves",

so he delivered a commencement speech to the graduating students of Liberty University.

You may have heard of Liberty University; it's the school that teaches creationism as a biology course. It can now boast of endorsement by the President of the United States, who today arrogantly violated the very first provision of the First Amendment by establishing fundamentalist Christian beliefs as fact. He told them "But you aren't going to let other people tell you what you believe, especially when you know that you're right."
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Trump needed to hear the applause and adulation that he craves, so he went to Liberty University. (Original Post) Towlie May 2017 OP
What a joke. Kath2 May 2017 #1
Why don't they just quit??? pangaia May 2017 #2
Not unusual for a president to give a commencement speech, but when it's *this* president ... Odoreida May 2017 #3
Credit from the unaccredited is not real credit Generic Brad May 2017 #4
Shhhhhh...don't tell donny that. Ilsa May 2017 #5

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
2. Why don't they just quit???
Sat May 13, 2017, 07:11 PM
May 2017

I mean, duh !!!
How complicated is it??
It's not like he is some, you know NORMAL, sane human being. He is a stinking shit stain on humanity and is damaging those around him.

Of course, I suspect they are mostly damaging each other as well...
 

Odoreida

(1,549 posts)
3. Not unusual for a president to give a commencement speech, but when it's *this* president ...
Sat May 13, 2017, 07:16 PM
May 2017

... Liberty University is about the only venue.

Generic Brad

(14,272 posts)
4. Credit from the unaccredited is not real credit
Sat May 13, 2017, 07:43 PM
May 2017

An anti-intellectual school is not a real school and their applause and approval is meaningless. They'd call for whoever they were told to clap for. Fake school for a fake president.

Ilsa

(61,690 posts)
5. Shhhhhh...don't tell donny that.
Sat May 13, 2017, 07:46 PM
May 2017

He'll throw another rally to beef himself up if he thinks today's applause was phony.

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