After one of the worst weeks of his truth-challenged presidency, Donald Trump was fortunate to have a “just what the doctor ordered” platform: a commencement speech, and at Liberty University, at that.
Usually these are rah-rah events intended to boost students’ sense that they are the future of tomorrow, right?
But this was the perfect public spot for Donald Trump, the reality show king, to realign himself after his Comey eruption of last week.
Trump got a boost from the Falwell clan’s version of higher ed last year, when its president, Jerry Falwell Jr. endorsed him. The commencement was a timely soft landing for Trump.
Where else could Trump so blatantly grandstand and showboat, and essentially thumb his nose at his critics?
“You aren’t going to let other people tell you what you believe, especially when you know that you’re right,” Trump told the crowd of 50,000 people at Liberty University. “We don’t need a lecture from Washington on how to lead our lives.”
And how does one lead life?
