President Trump delivered the commencement address on Thursday at the University of Alabama, where he spoke about changing the world.
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00:00Number six, if you want to change the world, you have to have the courage to be an outsider.
00:05In other words, you have to take certain risks and do things a little bit differently.
00:10Otherwise, if that weren't the case, everybody would be successful.
00:13It doesn't work that way.
00:15Progress never comes from those satisfied with the failures of a broken system.
00:20It comes from those who want to fix the broken system.
00:23And you'll make the bigger money, you'll make them more success by acting that way.
00:29The other way may be more secure, but if you want to go to the top, you're just never going
00:34to do it unless you break the system.
00:37Change is never easy, and the closer you get to success, the more ferociously those with
00:42a vested interest in the past will resist you.
00:45They want to resist.
00:47So I just say, trust me on that, because I know you really do.
00:51You have to break the system a little bit and follow your own instincts.
00:57But if your vision is right, nothing will hold you down.
01:00Nothing.
01:01You have to have the right vision.
01:03If you look at some of these Internet people, I know so many of them, Elon is so terrific.
01:08But I know now all of them, they all hated me in my first term, and now they're kissing
01:13my ass.
01:14Do you know?
01:19It's amazing.
01:27It's nicer this way.
01:28Now, in the first, you know, they didn't know what happened because I won an election that,
01:34you know, there was never a businessman that won a presidential election.
01:38Out of 100 percent, 8 percent were generals, and 92 percent were politicians.
01:46Not even admirals, not even just generals.
01:49There were eight generals, General Washington, General Grant, Generals, General Eisenhower.
01:55But 8 percent were generals, and 92 percent were politicians.
02:01And when I ran, everyone said, well, he can't win.
02:03He's a businessman.
02:04That's not going to work.
02:05And, you know, but you have a natural instinct for things.
02:08I guess I had a natural instinct.
02:09I said to somebody, was I a better businessman or a politician?
02:14And they said, well, there are a lot of guys that made a lot of money, but there's only
02:18one guy that became president that was a businessman, so I guess you're a better politician.
02:23But I don't think of myself as a politician.
02:25I think of myself as a businessman, and I'm proud of that.
02:29And I've applied business instinct, and that's why I think you're seeing us doing so
02:32well.