President Trump concludes Alabama visit
ABC 33/40
[{'start': '1.134', 'end': '9.809', 'text': "CHANCES COMING UP IN MINUTES.    WE'LL SEE YOU THEN.    >>WELL, TONIGHT, UNIVERSITY OF   ALABAMA GRADUATES HEARD THE    45TH AND 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE   UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP,   SPEAK AS PART OF A SPECIAL   COMMENCEMENT EVENT. NOW, THIS    WAS THE FIRST TIME IN THE    SCHOOL'S HISTORY A SITTING   PRESIDENT TOOK THE STAGE AS    COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER. WE HAVE    TEAM COVERAGE FOR YOU TONIGHT.   BUT FIRST, LET'S GO TO ABC 33    FORTY'S MEGAN SCARANO, WHO WAS   IN CULLMAN COLISEUM DURING THAT   SPEECH. MEGAN.   >>MURIEL PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP   ADDRESSED THOUSANDS OF   GRADUATES, FACULTY AND STAFF   AND THEIR FAMILIES TONIGHT AT    CULLMAN COLISEUM. HIS SPEECH   HIT ON TOPICS LIKE BORDER    SECURITY, TRANSGENDER WOMAN IN   SPORTS AND HIS TARIFFS. BUT HE   ALSO TOOK MOMENTS TO   CONGRATULATE THE RECENT    GRADUATES AND GIVE THEM SOME   LIFE ADVICE AS THEY EMBARK ON    THE NEXT JOURNEY OF THEIR    LIVES. AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS   TIME AT THE PODIUM, HE   CONGRATULATED THE GRADUATES ON   THEIR RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS   AND ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL   MOMENTS OF THE SPEECH CAME   AFTER COMMENDING MANY SPORTS   TEAMS HERE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF   ALABAMA. PLAYING TO HIS    AUDIENCE HERE INSIDE OF CULLMAN   COLISEUM, HE CONGRATULATED THE   ALABAMA WOMEN'S TRACK TEAM AND   THEN REFERENCED ONE OF HIS   EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN HIS FIRST    100 DAYS.    >>AND AS LONG AS I'M PRESIDENT,   WE WILL ALWAYS PROTECT WOMEN'S   SPORTS. MEN WILL NOT PLAY IN   WOMEN'S SPORTS. >>TRUMP WOULD BRING UP THIS    ISSUE AGAIN TOWARDS THE END OF   THE SPEECH. HE CALLED HIS FIRST   100 DAYS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF   ANY ADMINISTRATION. HE WOULD GO   ON TO BOAST ON HIS RECENT MASS   DEPORTATION EFFORTS, HIS   TARIFFS AND THE ECONOMY.   >>WE HAVE $36 TRILLION IN DEBT   THAT'S GOING TO START TO COME    OFF. IT'S GOING TO COME OFF    RAPIDLY, BUT WE'LL BE OVER $8    TRILLION IN INVESTMENT WITH    APPLE AND OTHERS INVESTING $500   BILLION EACH.    >>WHILE TRUMP'S SPEECH DID HIT   POLITICAL NOTES AT TIMES, HE   ALSO INCLUDED ADVICE FOR RECENT   GRADUATES, CALLING ON THEM TO    BUILD A BETTER AMERICA, WORK   HARD AND NEVER LOSE MOMENTUM.    >>DON'T WASTE YOUR YOUTH. GO   OUT AND FIGHT RIGHT FROM THE   BEGINNING, FROM THE DAY YOU    LEAVE THIS INCREDIBLE    UNIVERSITY. GO OUT AND FIGHT.    FIGHT TOUGH, FIGHT FAIR, BUT GO   OUT AND FIGHT. YOU'RE GOING TO   BE VERY SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE NOW   IS THE TIME TO WORK HARDER THAN   YOU HAVE EVER WORKED BEFORE.   >>AND TRUMP SPOKE FOR ABOUT AN   HOUR TONIGHT HERE IN   TUSCALOOSA, AND THERE WERE NO    DISRUPTIONS DURING THE SPEECH.   THE CROWD, THE CROWD HERE, VERY   RECEPTIVE OF PRESIDENT DONALD    TRUMP HERE TONIGHT LIVE IN   TUSCALOOSA. MEGAN SCARANO ABC    3340 NEWS.   >>PRESIDENT TRUMP'S VISIT    BROUGHT MIXED EMOTIONS FROM    THOSE IN TUSCALOOSA. ABC 3340    MARY BARRON SPENT THE AFTERNOON   WITH HUNDREDS OF PROTESTERS AT   THE TIDE AGAINST TRUMP RALLY.    >>AS TIME GOT CLOSER TO THE    PRESIDENT'S SPEECH, HUNDREDS OF   PEOPLE FILLED SNOW PARK RIGHT    HERE IN TUSCALOOSA. NOW, SOME    PEOPLE DROVE TEN MINUTES DOWN    THE ROAD AND OTHERS DROVE HOURS   TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT FOR    FREEDOM OF SPEECH.   >>IT IS BY DESIGN. HE WANTS. US   TO FEEL HOPELESS. HE WANTS US    TO BELIEVE THAT HE HAS ALL THE   POWER.   >>THE TIDE AGAINST TRUMP A   RALLY ORGANIZED BY THE   UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA    DEMOCRATS.   >>THIS IS NOT JUST A PROTEST.    THIS IS TRYING TO MAKE SURE    THAT DEMOCRACY IS SAFE.    >>IF YOU LOOK AROUND AND SEE   WHAT'S GOING ON, WE HAVE A   PRESIDENT WHO'S TRAMPLING ON   THE U.S. CONSTITUTION,   TRAMPLING ON THE THE SAFETY AND   AND THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE OF   THE UNITED STATES.   >>THE GOAL TO SPREAD AWARENESS   OF THOSE OPPOSING THE PRESIDENT   OF THE UNITED STATES, SPEAKING   AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   COMMENCEMENT.    >>I THINK THE FACT HE INVITED    HIMSELF IS A KIND OF AMUSING,    BUT ALSO THE FACT THAT, YOU    KNOW, HIS CLAIM TO BE HIS    ADMIRATION FOR STUDENTS AND    EDUCATION WHEN HE'S TAKING   MONEY AWAY FROM EDUCATION    EVERYWHERE.    >>GUEST SPEAKER AND FORMER   PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BETO    O'ROURKE TELLS ME IT'S ALL   ABOUT TAKING THE POWER BACK.   >>DONALD TRUMP IS COMING HERE    TO MAKE US FEEL HOPELESS. HE   WANTS US TO THINK THAT HE HAS    ALL THE POWER. I'M HERE TO   REMIND EVERYBODY WE THE PEOPLE   ARE THE POWER. AND WHEN WE STEP   UP, WHEN WE STAND UP TO BE   COUNTED, MUCH AS JOHN LEWIS DID   60 YEARS AGO, ALMOST TO THE    DAY, AND SHOCKED. THE    CONSCIENCE OF AMERICA.   >>I ASKED PROTESTERS, IF NOT   PRESIDENT TRUMP, THEN WHO?   >>VIRTUALLY ANYBODY IN THE   UNITED STATES WOULD HAVE BEEN A   BETTER AND MORE POWERFUL AND   MORE INTELLIGENT SPEAKER THAN    THE CURRENT PRESIDENT.   >>A PETITION IN OPPOSITION OF    THE PRESIDENT WAS ALSO CREATED.   NOW, AS OF THURSDAY, THE   PETITION HAS GARNERED MORE THAN   20,000 SIGNATURES IN   TUSCALOOSA. I'M MARY BARRON ABC   3340 NEWS.   >>IF YOU MISSED PRESIDENT    TRUMP'S COMMENCEMENT SPEECH    TONIGHT, YOU"}]