Ivanka Trump’s scheduled commencement speech for Wichita State University was canceled due to her father’s response to George Floyd’s death last week.
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According to Fox News, Ivanka Trump went on Twitter to express her feelings about the speech being canceled after several students protested online for the school to cancel her speech. She tweeted the following along with a video reciting her planned speech: Here is the message I recorded on May 18th for the Graduates of WSU-Tech. I know that all of these talented graduates will dream big and aspire to make the world a better place! Our nation’s campuses should be bastions of free speech. Cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination are antithetical to academia. Listening to one another is important now more than ever!
Wichita State President Dr. Jay Golden and his colleague WSU Tech President Sheree Utah did not explain why Trump was initially dropped as a speaker and said the commencement plans “have been refocused more centrally on students.