Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump. Then he reveals it was Obama
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LOUISVILLE — Bell County High School student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.
"This is the part of my speech where I share some inspirational quotes I found on Google," Bowling said in his speech. "'Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.' — Donald J. Trump." The crowd burst into applause. "Just kidding," Bowling said. "That was Barack Obama."
The 18-year-old valedictorian said the crowd quickly went silent. "The crowd erupted in applause and before they could even finish clapping I said I was kidding and the applause quickly died," Bowling said. Bowling, who graduated on Saturday morning, told Courier Journal that he "didn't mean anything bad by it" and thought the moment was lighthearted and funny.
“I just thought it was a really good quote,” Bowling said. “Most people wouldn’t like it if I used it, so thought I’d use Donald Trump’s name. It is southeastern Kentucky after all.”
Dude reportedly has a 4.2 GPA. Clearly he's ready to get the fuck out of his backwater hometown, and figured he might burn a few bridges.
Not gonna lie, I kinda wish there was a video because this would be some funny shit to see.
What I wouldn't give to see a recording of every single person's face when he Shyamalan'd them.
That almost sounds like something Trump would say, but probably not so eloquently. He desperately wants to be accepted by elites.
This reminds me of a French journalist who interviewed a bunch of Trump supporters during the election and shared some controversial quotes from the Quran, only to reveal they were actually from the Bible.
Their reactions were as funny as you can imagine.
"FIGHT HARD FOR BIG CHAIR! HUGE CHAIR! WIN"
"Nobody's got a bigger chair than I do, not a bigger table than me either. I mean, that's what I've been told, some very great people told me that, believe me. Nobody has one bigger, not a bigger chair, than me, that's what they tell me."
Ohh somehow I thought Obama was like speaking in the dark, and then once the speech is over, a spotlight shines on him and reveal its Obama
This is just a jpg to me, what?
I like how there was a boo after he said Obama
this sounds like one of those copypasta stories about the brave christian student standing up to the evil atheist teacher that's going to assassinate god
Ben Bowling graduation speech
here's a non-embed link
It refuses to load past one incredibly compressed frame for me, for whatever reason.
It was doing this for me and I figured out it seems be a problem with using an ad blocker. Probably something they did to intentionally trip a false positive and stop the video from playing.
Disabling uBlock Origin doesn't make it work. Oh well, it'll end up on Youtube eventually.
If you're using firefox, I am as well, and that could be causing it.
Did you refresh the page after disabling it?
Yeah they did something similar in the UK, going around a tory safe seat asking if members of the public supported certain policies, having them whole heatedly endorse them, and the revealing they were labour policies.
I was honestly surprised by the amount of people who just instantly changed their mind on something they were super enthusiastic about moments earlier, deciding it was suddenly disastrous because ~the other team is doing it ew~
It's almost like politics are plagued by petty tribalism.
I can sympathise to an extent, I have my own biases.
If someone pitched a good idea to me, more funds for the NHS for example, and then told me it was a Tory policy, I'd want to know what the catch was. But I wouldn't instantly reverse my position like "wtf i hate healthcare now".
This extends to almost everythinh. Like someone could pitch me a TV show idea that I'd love, then reveal that it came from Seth Macfarlane and I'd suddenly have a wave of revulsion.
I mean this is hilarious.
But good lord its fucking pathetic, just how blindly those people follow Trump.
I'd probably die laughing after he revealed it was Obama, but afterwards i would be like "Fucking lord those people are pathetic..."
I can't imagine that working.
How often did Obama use the word (?) "Bigly"?
Its actually easy to tell when its a Trump quote if it had terrible grammar. Even if it was that situation i wouldn't be really cheering anyways. Its more of me laughing at the Die-Hard Trump supporters who think they have to fucking cheer everytime their god emperor is mentioned.
Doesn't work here because USA Today decided to fork their website for the EU instead of fixing their full website when GDPR rolled out.
"Grab em by the pussy" - Barack Hussain Obama
"Can you believe it? Someday I'll be dating her" - Barack Hussain Obama on a 12 year old girl
"If she wasn't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her" - Barack Hussain Obama
"I will be phenomenal to the women. I mean, I want to help women." - Barack Hussain Obama
“Do you believe in punishment for abortion – yes or no – as a principle?”
“The answer is there has to be some form of punishment.”
“For the woman?”
“Yeah, there has to be some form.” - Barack Hussain Obama on Abortion
""I have a great relationship with African Americans, as you possibly have heard. I just have great respect for them. And they like me. I like them." - Barack Hussain Obama on his african americans
Audience reaction: "wtf? I hate trump now!"
Almost made my coffee come out my nose with that one
Hey now, The Orville is actually fun.
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