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Obama Tells Rutgers Graduates Walls Won’t Solve Ills 

JOSH LEDERMAN
Associated Press
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) —
President Barack Obama
on Sunday urged college
graduates to shun those
who want to confront a
rapidly changing world
by building walls around
the United States or by
embracing ignorance, as
he delivered a sharp and
barely concealed critique
of Donald Trump.
Obama used his com-
mencement speech at
Rutgers University to illus-

President Barack Obama speaks during Rutgers University’s 250th Anniversary commencement ceremony, on Sunday, May 15,

2016, in Piscataway, N.J. 									                                                       (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

trate a world view antitheti-  graduating students that     “A wall won’t stop that,”     — not pull up the draw-
cal to the ideas espoused      the pace of change on the    Obama said, bringing to       bridge and try to keep the
by the presumptive Repub-      planet is accelerating, not  mind Trump’s call for build-  world out.” The president
lican presidential nominee.    subsiding, and that recent   ing a border wall between     never mentioned Trump by
Looking out at a sea of red    history had proved that the  the  U.S. and Mexico. “The    name, but his intended tar-
and black gowns, Obama         toughest challenges can-     point is, to help ourselves,  get seemed clear.
told the roughly 12,000        not be solved in isolation.  we’ve got to help others
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