Is Donald Trump — or at least someone on his speech-writing staff — working overtime to be relatable to millennials? Perhaps it wasn’t intentional, but it looks like in his commencement speech at Liberty University took a few cues from our favorite fictional lawyer (what can I say, Go Set A Watchman didn’t do Atticus many favors).
Jimmy Fallon has the breakdown:
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Of course, the similar bits of the speech are pretty generic graduation fodder. It’s easy to imagine a room full of monkeys (or just speech writers desperately trying not to get fired) coming up with those words.
And I don’t remember Elle Woods’s screed on the evils of the First Amendment.
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