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President Donald Trump delivered the starting speech at the University of Alabama on Thursday night and easily won the crowd.
Trump dominated the state in last year’s elections, so he already had an advantage of a local crowd, but obtained bonus points when speaking very well of school athletics programs.
The president called the University a “special place … where the legends are made.”
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President Donald Trump offers graduation comments at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, May 1, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP through Getty Images)
“There is something really special in the players, coaches and fans who pack the stadium and proudly sing ‘Dixieland Delight’. We like that. Alabama has changed university football forever,” Trump said, shouting both the deceased Bear Bryant and Nick Saban, who presented Trump.
“The Crimson Tide does not rest, does not give up and does not stop winning until it is always. You are always winning. That is why the football team of the University of Alabama has won more games in the last decade than any university football team in the United States. That is not bad. That is why, the past fall, you defeated Auburn for the fifth year in once.
Jam Miller (26) of Alabama Crimson Tide celebrates after receiving a touchdown with Kadyn Proctor (74) during the first quarter at the Bryant-Denny stadium on September 28, 2024, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
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Trump also shouted the male basketball team that reached his first last four in the history of the program.
“Not only is a great soccer school alabama, now it is one of the best basketball schools in the nation,” he said.
Trump also praised the female athletics team, which won the SEC, previously promised again that transgender athletes will not participate in sports of girls and women.
The football team lost the Reliakest Bowl against Michigan, their second consecutive defeat in the bowl against the Wolverines, which defeated them in the Rose Bowl on the road to the 2024 National Championship.
President Donald Trump shakes hand to the former Alabama Crimson Tide Soccer Nick Saban coach at Coleman Coliseum at the University of Alabama on May 1, 2025 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Anna MoneyMaker/Getty images)
Trump attended the 41-34 victory of Crimson Tides over Georgia last season before the elections.
