One speech that stuck with me was given to the 2003 graduates of the University of Alabama. My son was in that class, and I sat with a friend to watch him cross over. My husband had a broken arm from a hiking accident, so he couldn’t be there, but listened to our son’s name called out as I held my phone up.

Abraham Verghese is a Stanford University professor, bestselling author and a prominent doctor who advocates for strengthening the physician-patient connection and bedside skills.

READER POLL: Who gave the best commencement speech? Kermit the Frog, Dawn Moore, Wes Moore or JD Vance? This graduation season, the biggest names to deliver commencement addresses to Maryland institutions came from the heights of government and puppeteering.

The frog’s speech focused on three points, finding your people, taking the leap, making connections. “I see you, I see you out there.

The president said the graduating cadets would enter a service no longer subject to “absurd ideological experiments” or “nation-building crusades.”

"I guess he can't relate to working hard to graduate college...so he speaks about what he does know. Trophy wives and expensive boats."

The last time President Trump gave a speech at the U.S. Military Academy came amid nationwide reckoning following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.

Harvard President Alan Garber, who has repeatedly defended the school's actions, didn't directly touch on the Trump administration threats.