President Donald Trump at Liberty University: Critics Are 'Pathetic'

[DonViejo]

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Source: The Daily Beast

"As long as I am your president, no one is ever going to stop you from practicing your faith," President Trump said to a crowd of newly minted graduates.

GIDEON RESNICK
05.13.17 12:18 PM ET

“Nothing is easier and more pathetic than being a critic, because they’re people that can’t get the job done,” President Donald Trump said from the podium at Liberty University on Saturday morning.

The line, delivered by the leader of the free world—who has criticized via his Twitter account everyone from Rosie O’Donnell to recently fired FBI Director James Comey—was delivered in a commencement speech rife with generalized aphorisms and motivational quotes one might see on a local yoga studio’s Instagram account.

Trump arrived in Lynchburg, Virginia, capping what was perhaps the most hectic week in a hectic presidency, to a largely welcoming environment—one which the thrice-married real estate mogul had already partially wooed in the 2016 election. He was flanked onstage by Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty, who wholeheartedly endorsed Trump and helped shepherd some 80 percent of white evangelical voters to the ballot box on his behalf.

"As long as I am your president, no one is ever going to stop you from practicing your faith," Trump said to the crowd of newly minted graduates. He had already delivered, at least symbolically, on a promise he made the last time he spoke at the university as a candidate in January 2016. "We're going to protect Christianity, and I can say that. I don't have to be politically correct,” Trump said at the time, at which point he also referred to one of the books of the Bible as “Two Corinthians.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/13/president-donald-trump-at-liberty-university-critics-are-pathetic

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Highlights from Trump's Liberty University commencement speech

President Trump delivered the commencement speech at Liberty University today where he bashed the "broken" system in Washington, called out the critics, read out the school's football schedule and touched on religious freedom.

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Key quotes:

* "No one has ever achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it can't be done. Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic, because they're people that can't get the job done."

* "In my short time in Washington, I have seen firsthand how the system is broken. A small group of failed voices who think they know everything and understand everyone want to tell everybody else how to live and what to do and how to think, but you aren't going to let other people tell you what you believe, especially when you know that you are right."

* "Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right — and they know what is right, but they don't have the courage or the guts or the stamina to take it and to do it."

* "Treat the word 'impossible' as nothing more than motivation."

Why it matters: Saturday's commencement speech gave Trump an opportunity to address a largely-supportive audience reminiscent of his campaign rallies, which he desperately needed after a rough week of firing James Comey and trying to explain his decision.

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https://www.axios.com/quotes-from-trumps-liberty-university-commencement-speech-2406188902.html

[retrowire]

1. "no one is ever going to stop you from practicing your faith,"

No one ever has tried stopping them from practicing their faith.

Ahh, the Republican party, the provocateur of victim complexes everywhere. Snowflakes!

Coming to take our guns, our religion, taint our white race, what else do they tell them all to be afraid of?

[cstanleytech]

4. Whats funny is that he literally had to find a captive audience to give that speech to.

[dchill]

8. I, for one, would like to stop them from "practicing their faith..."

Because, to them, that means ramming it down all our throats by force of law. Stop them at EVERY TURN, I say.

[Kleveland]

11. Correct me if am wrong...

But isn't Islam a faith?

Isn't that who the immigration ban was targeting?

Last I checked, there was a broad representation of various and valid faiths in this country...

They are all damned to hell, according to these sorts of mindbogglingly ignorant white "Christians".

I have my own notions of who will really be damned to hell.....

What would Jesus do?

These clowns really have no concept of self awareness, or enlightenment, and only use cherry picked catch phrases out of context from their Bible to suit their own narrow minded ideas and self centered hateful prejudices.

Bless their pointed little heads!

This too shall pass....

[niyad]

12. welcome to du. the ONLY faith is that whacked version of xianity, don't you know?

[The Mouth]

29. By their paradigm, Islam is not a faith

It is a political philosophy, cloaked as one, and not deserving of first amendment (or any other) protection.

Seriously, that is how a lot on the right deal with the cognitive dissonance of being anti-Islam and yet supporting religion in the public square.

[roamer65]

2. A fraud talking to frauds.

[dalton99a]

22. +1

[winetourdriver01]

3. Asshole In Chief

These evangelicals grift money by the truck load, and pay zero taxes on the loot. Exactly who do they need protection from?

[C_U_L8R]

5. A crap-covered straw man

I don't know who's worse - shitheels like Trump and most Republicans who whip up these ridiculous fears... or the dumbasses who believe them. Either way, they're made for each other.

[msongs]

6. i heard the new liberty university motto is "grab em by the P+++y" nt

[benpollard]

7. Liberty "university" -- where the Bible is used as a science textbook

Creationism is taught as a biology course at Liberty "university.

What's not so funny is that students there receive nearly 1/2 billion dollars a year in federal financial aid -- our tax dollars supporting a religious institution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

[Turbineguy]

15. They exist to infiltrate the US Government

and plant incompetent buffoons into the civil service.

[Solly Mack]

9. Says the man playing critic to everyone else.

[William Seger]

10. "Nothing is easier and more pathetic than being a critic"

"... because they’re people that can’t get the job done." Like the Republican healthcare "reformers?"

[pansypoo53219]

13. once again using a term to describe himself.

HE is pathetic, minus any pathos. a tic sucking off america.

[jimmil]

14. Trump

Never even mentioned religion, the bible, or anything else related to Christianity prior to the election. Well, except when he started attending church with Marla to slip out and bang Melania (or so it said at supermarket checkouts). Otherwise I never recall anything that put religion into Trump's actions or interviews. Not so much as a whisper. Then when he began his campaign all he had to do a few times was to mention Christian right wing talking points and the Jebus freaks just slobbered all over themselves screaming, "Hez one'uv US!"

[bresue]

16. WOULDN'T IT BE AWESOME IF RUBLICANS WEREN'T FORCING CHRISTIANITY

Down our throats? I don't believe politicians should even state their religion. Nor should they be forcing people to lower their heads while THEY pray. 'God' and 'Jesus' and 'Allah' should be politically incorrect to speak while in congress and we are paying their wages. I am not paying taxes so they can preach religion!!!

[LudwigPastorius]

17. Did he throw in any pithy quotes from Two Thessalonians?

[onethatcares]

18. two thessalonians walk into a bar

and one asks the other, "Why did the chicken cross the playground?"

the other replied. "To get to the other slide".



Thank you. Don't forget to tip your waiters.

[Permanut]

19. Correct me if I'm wrong, ..

but I think that's either in Galoshes or Laminations.

[onethatcares]

20. you're wrong

that's the oldie version. Once electric guitars hit the scene, every thing changed.

[Permanut]

21. Thanks for the update!

[moose65]

31. Hahaha

You'll be here all week, right??

[Blue Idaho]

23. I think clown college is more intellectually honest

Than the dogmatic magical thinking practiced at Liberty University.

It's entirely appropriate that Trump, who gets his hair care advice from Bozo the Clown, should speak at that puffed up half rate diploma mill.

[llmart]

25. LOL

"gets his hair care advice from Bozo the Clown". That made me lose it!

[BlueStater]

24. "Nothing is easier and more pathetic than being a critic,"

I love how this asshat completely lacks any self-awareness. What the fuck was he from 2011 to 2017?

[neeksgeek]

27. That was different.

He has the best criticism. Bigly. Believe me.

[Aviation Pro]

26. Project much....

....you fucking, famously large, blood-soaked, fetid pile of shit?

Have a stroke soon, fuckhead.

[SHRED]

28. So says the pu**y grabbing handicap mocker.

[The Wizard]

30. Another Republican said

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”


― Theodore Roosevelt

[Ilsa]

32. He read out the football schedule? And that counts as inspirational?

Dolt45.

[califootman]

33. Why did he keep bringing up the Republicans in Congress?

* "Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic, because they're people that can't get the job done."

* "A small group of failed voices who think they know everything and understand everyone want to tell everybody else how to live and what to do and how to think."

* "...those who lack the same courage to do what is right — and they know what is right, but they don't have the courage or the guts or the stamina to take it and to do it." (Hint: It's spelled I - M - P - E - A - C - H)

[spiderpig]

34. Perfect choice for a commencement address

"Failed" "so-called" "horrible" "disaster" "veryvery" "believe me"...

Lather, rinse, repeat.

(I forgot "Only I can fix it.&quot

[smirkymonkey]

35. He is such flaming hypocrite!

What a disgusting piece of excrement!

[hibbing]

36. He's not the leader of the free world n/t

[jmowreader]

37. Preparing the campus for his visit must have been a hoot

It's 9 am in the office of Jerry Falwell Jr., president of America's most important Christian madrassa. He calls to his secretary.

"Mary? Has that man from Maintenance arrived yet?"
'Yes sir. Shall I send him in?'
"Please."

"Hello, I'm Dr. Falwell. And you are?"
'Joseph, sir.'
"Joseph. Ah. A very good name. I have a very important job for you. Our esteemed president Donald Trump is speaking on our campus in a few days, and we need to make it a warm and welcoming environment for him."
'And how can I do that?'
"First, run across the street to Home Depot and buy a case of duct tape. No, make it two just to be sure, he might come back and we'll need to do it all over again. Also get five gallons of paint thinner. Then go around campus looking for Ten Commandments monuments. When you find one, tape over the First through Fourth and Seventh through Tenth Commandments. After he leaves, clean off all the tape."
'Sir, wouldn't it be easier just to put tarps over them?'
"Yes. That would be fine. Any other questions?"
'Sir, may I speak freely?'
"Yes, Joseph, you may."
'If President Trump would have enrolled in this university as a student on Monday we would have expelled him that Thursday over honor code violations. Why are we welcoming him as an esteemed guest?'
"Because we had two choices last year - get behind the truly evil man that Donald Trump is, or let Hillary Clinton take our Bibles away."