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“If you’re here today and think that you’re too young to do something great, let me tell you that you are wrong. You’re not too young. You can have great success at a very young age,” mentioned Trump.

“Young people can do anything. I was 28 when I took my first big gamble to develop a hotel in Midtown … and it worked out incredibly well.”

The president inspired college students to push themselves additional, discover their limits and discover a profession they love.

“I rarely see somebody who’s successful that doesn’t love what he or she does. I had a lot of different careers, but I loved real estate so much, and I was very successful in real estate because I loved it.”

The majority of the president’s remarks echoed versions of his rally speeches.

Trump began his comments by thanking various Alabama officials.

He encouraged students not to “waste their youth.”

“Ancient wisdom is being rediscovered in the best and strongest place, coming back for all to see bigger, better and greater than ever, coming back,” he said.

Trump added remarks about his first 100 days in office.

“The people that have rejected the voices of a failed establishment, you saw that in the election, we turned the page of endless wars, crippling debt, open borders, ruinous situation and a lack of respect for our country and for its leaders, but we’re turning them all around, and we’re turning around very fast. We will very quickly make America great again.”

Trump began speaking around 8 p.m. He touted his administration’s recent accomplishments on the military, border crossings and tariffs.

He walked out on stage to cheers of “USA! USA!”

He called his election the “golden age” of America.

This is down from a previous forecast of $11.2 to $12.5 billion.

The Attorney General invited MAGA influencers to see the first tranche of the Jeffrey Epstein files — now the White House says there’s “no specific timeline” to release the rest.

At a briefing on Monday, O’Handley asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt when to expect the “bulk of the files” to be released or any arrests related to the matter. She said she doesn’t have a “specific timeline” for their release.

“SCALP,” declared conspiracy theory-lover and right-wing activist Laura Loomer in a tweet posted after reports of his removal as NSA and shortly before news that he would be moved to the now-vacant position of ambassador to the United Nations.

The writing was on the wall for Waltz long before news of his imminent ouster from his security role broke on Thursday. His new position puts him out of the White House, and out of Trump’s inner circle of advisers.

President Donald Trump has tapped Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations after ousting him as National Security Adviser.

The shake-up comes just weeks after the Signalgate scandal, where Waltz inadvertently added a journalist from The Atlantic into the chat discussing war plans in Yemen.

Trump announced the move in a post on Truth Social.

Rhian Lubin and Andrew Feinberg followed events today for The Independent.

Trans service members suing to overturn the Trump administration’s ban on trans troops have filed their response to the Supreme Court after government attorneys asked the justices to block lower court rulings overruling them.

“Transgender servicemembers like the active-duty Respondents have served in our military for years with honor and distinction,” they wrote.

“Applicants have admitted they have no evidence that such service has negatively impacted military readiness or unit cohesion, nor can they identify any harm that would occur during the short time the preliminary injunction is in effect while their appeal is resolved. The Ban has been enjoined for weeks, and the government has delayed in requesting the alleged ‘emergency’ relief it now seeks, which independently justifies denial of the request.”

In a separate filing, a group of trans service members in a parallel case wrote to the court to warn that blocking those lower court orders would “immediately trigger” a harsh process of removal for “thousands of transgender service members, causing reputational, professional, and constitutional harm that can never be undone.”

“Once initiated, the shame and opprobrium of being forced into that process (even if later reversed) causes irreparable harm,” they wrote.

Meanwhile, Michael Flynn and a group of right-wing activists filed a brief to support the administration’s arguments by repeatedly misgendering the decorated service members at the center of the case and claiming that “such decisions belongs only to the President and Congress, not the Courts.”

Flynn and others write to the court that trans people (written as “transgender,” with quotes, in every instance) are disqualified because they “experience high levels of depression, abuse of alcohol and drugs” and “rates of infection with sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS.”

“Finally, there are high levels of overlap between people who ‘identify’ as ‘transgender,’ and those who claim to be ‘transabled’ (wanting to mutilate perfectly good body parts to match how they ‘feel inside’), and those who believe they are ‘otherkin’ (‘identify[ing] as wizards, dragons, elves, trolls, potted plants, dogs, wolves,’ etc.),” the right-wing activist groups wrote.

“It does not require speculation to see the risk inherent in allowing those who suffer from serious mental health and other problems to serve in the military,” they said.