{"id":12527,"date":"2018-06-05T12:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/a-bit-of-wisdom-laced-with-humor-on-graduation-day\/"},"modified":"2018-06-05T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:44:35","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-laced-with-humor-on-graduation-day","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/a-bit-of-wisdom-laced-with-humor-on-graduation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom, Laced with Humor, on Graduation Day"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12527","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"The valedictorian at a Kentucky High School borrowed part of his speech from a presidential commencement address -- with a special twist for the audience.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Deep in Trump country, in a southeastern Kentucky county where the president got 82 percent of the vote in 2016, it takes a special young person to challenge the conventional wisdom about the nation's chief executive -- and get a laugh or two in the bargain.\r\n\r\nOn Saturday, Ben Bowling showed himself up to the task.\r\n\r\nValedictorian at Bell County High School, hard by Kentucky's boundaries with Tennessee and Virginia, Bowling drew raucous applause when he offered up an inspirational quote:\r\n\r\n<em>Don\u2019t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table\u2019<\/em>\u2014 Donald J. Trump.\r\n\r\nAmid raucous applause, he delivered the kicker:\r\n\r\n<em>Just kidding. That was Barack Obama.<\/em>\r\n\r\nThe cheers stopped, replaced with a few laughs and a couple of scattered, though robust \"Boos.\"\r\n\r\n\u201cI just thought it was a really good quote,\u201d Bowling told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/2018\/06\/03\/kentucky-valedictorian-quotes-trump-then-reveals-obama\/667625002\/\">Louisville Courier-Journal.<\/a> \u201cMost people wouldn\u2019t like it if I used it, so I thought I\u2019d use Donald Trump\u2019s name. It is southeastern\u00a0Kentucky after all.\u201d\r\n\r\nBravo, Mr. Bowling. 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