--- title: Read Donald Trump's Liberty University Commencement Speech description: President Donald Trump delivered a speech at the 2017 graduation ceremony at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Read the transcript canonical: https://time.com/4778240/donald-trump-liberty-university-speech-transcript/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-13T17:42:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:54:42.348Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Read President Trump's Liberty University Commencement Speech og:description: A transcript of his remarks in Lynchburg, Virginia og:url: https://time.com/4778240/donald-trump-liberty-university-speech-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd89b0fc9c6bb6952/6988cd3486f68e61086e4af7/gettyimages-682656460-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Delivers Commencement Address At Liberty University og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read President Trump's Liberty University Commencement Speech twitter:description: A transcript of his remarks in Lynchburg, Virginia twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd89b0fc9c6bb6952/6988cd3486f68e61086e4af7/gettyimages-682656460-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read President Trump's Liberty University Commencement Speech by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 13, 2017 5:42 PM UTC  President Donald Trump delivers keynote address during the commencement at Liberty University on May 13, 2017 in Lynchburg, Virginia. President Donald Trump delivers keynote address during the commencement at Liberty University on May 13, 2017 in Lynchburg, Virginia.Alex Wong—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 13, 2017 5:42 PM UTC _President Trump gave the commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, on Saturday._ --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4778240/donald-trump-liberty-university-speech-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4778240/donald-trump-liberty-university-speech-transcript/"},"headline":"Read President Trump's Liberty University Commencement Speech","datePublished":"2017-05-13T17:42:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:54:42.348Z","description":"President Trump delivered the commencement address at Liberty University","url":"https://time.com/4778240/donald-trump-liberty-university-speech-transcript/","keywords":["Education","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd89b0fc9c6bb6952/6988cd3486f68e61086e4af7/gettyimages-682656460-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd89b0fc9c6bb6952/6988cd3486f68e61086e4af7/gettyimages-682656460-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Delivers Commencement Address At Liberty University","caption":"Donald Trump Delivers Commencement Address At Liberty University","creditText":"Alex Wong—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4778240/donald-trump-liberty-university-speech-transcript/","name":"Read President Trump's Liberty University Commencement Speech"}}]}] ```