--- ---  # 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._ --- > “” --- Read Donald Trump's Liberty University Commencement Speech ```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"}}]}] ```