Barack Obama Will Deliver Televised Commencement Address For 2020 Grads | Talking Points Memo

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Barack Obama will deliver a televised prime-time commencement address for the high school class of 2020 during an hour-long event that will also feature LeBron James, Malala Yousafzai and Ben Platt, among others.


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I can just see the heads exploding at 1600 after this. No matter…it will be nice to hear President Obama speak again…a man who can form complete sentences and actually form a thoughtful comment on current events. Looking forward to this.

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Trump will definitely try to stage some kind of last minute interruption.

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Don’t worry Trump will demand a prime time speech to the 2020 Pre K 1& 2 graduates his peer group.Don’t mean to insult the Pre Ks.

This is how its done .confirmation questioning that is

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Trump university graduates are now asking for equal time. Maybe Don Jr. can fill in.

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Good for all of them. That’s very cool.

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This will be a nice thing right now, as a nation in need of a president. A light shining through the manure pile.

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Yep, there will be some sort of Trumpian shitshow announced around 6 pm ET that day.

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Oooh, that’s gonna leave a mark…

Well played, President Obama, celebrating the students royally screwed over by the Trump Pandemic

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Marked my calendar.

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Or some kind of counter production. That is, he already is forcing the West Point cadets to come listen to his drivel (and somehow the academy is allowing him to put their graduates at risk, but that’s another show). So maybe he finds something going on that night or puts on another show at the Lincoln Memorial or something.

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Emergency presidential address the major networks are required to broadcast. Content of which won’t matter, though I could see Trump dropping a bomb and starting a war to preempt this.

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Have you ever seen a mama cat, with all her kittens in a circle, and some poor hapless mouse in the middle, teaching them how to hunt?

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I hope Obama delivers a powerful and rousing speech about how it’s past time to Open America Up and get everyone back to work, and definitely no handouts for the little folk.

Trump would order a nationwide lockdown through the end of the year and MoscowMitch would table a universal basic income relief package within an hour.

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Every time he speaks in public, even if it’s just a tweet about some minor holiday, it’s like De Gaulle broadcasting to the Free French, letting us know there’s a whole world out there, our own world from the recent past, actually, where rational problem-solving and a modest but real respect for objective reality and telling the truth still persist as values. It’s all still inside us, and he’s a symbol of its continued existence. It’s probably our greatest power right now. Which is why a president giving a commencement address, a pretty commonplace thing in ordinary times, probably won’t be this time. Just a guess. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I am almost tearing up. It has been such a long road through the desert.

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An honorable man does an honorable act for the US.
Someone is going to go a little more nuts when he hears of this not to mention the day of.

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For a little while we can pretend we have a real president again.

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On my calendar. Hope it’s on everyone else’s, too. Also hope the media doesn’t cut away because fat boy makes up some kind of pre-emptive BS.

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“Bomb Bomb Bomb…Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran…”