The Latest on President Donald Trump's commencement address at Liberty University (all times local):
11:10 a.m.
President Donald Trump is telling college graduates that they should "relish the opportunity to be an outsider."
FILE - In this May 4, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Trump, in an apparent warning to his fired FBI director, said Friday, May 12, 2017, that James Comey had better hope there are no "tapes" of their conversations. Trump's tweet came the morning after he asserted Comey had told him three times that he wasn't under FBI investigation.
He says outsiders "change the world and make a real and lasting difference."
Trump is delivering his first commencement speech as president at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
He says his message to those in the audience is "never, ever give up" and "never stop fighting for what you believe in."
Trump was an outsider who challenged the political establishment on the way to winning the White House. He tells students that they should "be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched and failed power structures." He then asked, "Does that sound familiar, by the way?"
And he says the more that people say something can't be done, "the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong."
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