Exactly
Exactly
And no one walked out!
No one walked out and they were smiling and laughing and waving. So much joy was had as opposed to the stone -cold silence and the grim faces at West Point. What an amazing contrast 🐸 💙
MUPPETS FOR SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW... DR TEETH BAND!
As long as you don't leap: 1. into a pot of warm water, expecting it to stay that way 2. from a frying pan
Definition of a DEI hire
Genuinely getting goosebumps. More Kermit. Much, much more Kermit.
There's a puppet leader I could get behind.
HA! Me too! LOL!!
Me three 🐸
George Carlin as VP.
Hilarious that @nytimes.com posting this.... culpable for Trump and overt racist regime
It was today that I learned it's actually Dr. The Frog.
Hoping there's a YouTube video of this somewhere.
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Thank you!
Awesome — CNN is airing some of it as I type!
The frog is wise indeed 💚
Infantilism. Dunderheads at public institution in deep blue state demand to be entertained by muppets. If not, there's no guarantee they will pay attention to what is being communicated.
There is no guarantee that anyone will pay attention to anything whether in Maryland or Mississippi. That said, Mr. Henson's voice from the past communicates more good will than Trump's discussion of yachts and trophy wives to second lieutenants.
Why did you fail to mention Biden's discussion of sniffology and getting bought off by the Communist Chinese to his second lieutenant Hunter?
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Unlike most graduates, 20 years from now, 2025 UM graduates will be able to tell you who their commencement speaker was.
A puppet who is smarter, kinder and a better leader than the president.
Puppet? That’s a frog lol
My bad!🤣
Fuckin frog puppet has more class than half the country. Get your shit together, America.
So, so awesome! Spread these good words!!!!! 👏👏👏
Proud to be a Terp!❤️🤍🖤💛 Excellent message, Kermit😊
This would have been AWESOME to witness. Somewhere Over the Rainbow Conection Jim Henson is smiling. 🌈🐸🎶
The frog knows
I ♥️ Kermit and Bored 🐸 🐸
The end, It sound like the dean scream ! youtu.be/RwkNnMrsx7Q
Yayyyy Kermie!!!
It’s not a commencement. It’s a concludement, for fu*** sake! Learn English!!
*conclusion
Love Kermit..Loved Jim! Tears..
Redicules
The cynical graduates don’t appreciate the wit & wisdom of Kermit or the variety show he hosted, the movies & songs as much as their parents and grandparents did. Jim Henson was a genius to them. The Trump Admin thinks the university of Maryland isn’t white enough for them
That's Doctor The Frog, to you.
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I'd go back to college if I got to meet Kermit.
Well, it appears the University of Maryland has finally reached that stage in quarantine where even puppets are considered to be renowned orators. #NoMuppetLeftBehind
I just cried at Kermits speech, damn I'm a mess
Suck it West Point!
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Bet West Point graduates are so jelly.
Wow! How beautiful a tribute to Jim Henson and the students at his Alma Mater. UM College Park is just outside DC. I have strong memory of the 1st time seeing Kermit on TV when I was a little girl - an early a.m. local PSA about something or other. All I remember is loving this talking frog! ☺️🥰
He did Wilkins Coffee commercials in the late 1950s - early 1960s, too.
Vote for the Greens.
This happened?! 😅🩷👏👍
West Point should have had Kermit the Frog give the commencement speech, because Trump was a Hot Smelly Mess.
This was AWSOME completely
Awaiting the response from the Fox shill set.
Kermit the Frog is a radical communist socialist who wants to trans your kids!!! 🤪🤪
"DEI beneficiary and interspecies marriage advocate unleashes woke tyrade in attempt to indoctrinate young graduates into insane far left ideology."
"Look at how liberals want to infantilize America's youth. Graduates of this college -adults, supposedly - are so unprepared for the real world that they still need to be entertained by puppet shows for toddlers." - Fox News, probably. But less coherently.
Riley Gaines was up in arms as it was occurring.
I think they might steer clear, because then they have to acknowledge the "Speech" that the President delivered to the Cadets as West Point, probably the finest Military Institute in History that has produced many of the world's most brilliant military leaders. I imagine many said "WTF was that?"
Woke frog is smarter than entire current administration.
😂
Morons waving at the camera ffs.
#Kermit should be careful. Could find himself in El Salvador
Those poor students that have to sit through some right wing nonsense-- looking at you, who had to listen to Gestapo Barbie-- must be eating their hearts out. Well done, Kermit!
The best thing I’ve seen on line in a long time!
Proud of my alma mater 🐢
I wish Kermit were running the country.
Cookie Monster for Secretary of Health? The Count for Sec of Education? These are clear upgrades!
With Bob Ross as VP and Big Bird as Speaker.
Bob Ross would make a great Secretary of the Interior.
Instead we've got a bro who takes this as his theme song... tomsmith.bandcamp.com/track/undead...
Make Big Bird the Sec. of State and Oscar the Sec. of Defense and it’s a deal.
Absolutely, Oscar should definitely be involved.
That’s a puppet government I could get behind.
This is wonderful
And Sean Hannity can't stand it. I guess he really wanted Kermit to make his first appearance at NYU...
Kermit got jokes 😄
Statler: Hey, there's a puppet speaking! Waldorf: The orange one? Statler: No, the green one! Waldorf: Well, he's better appreciated than the orange one. Statler: Not that hard, I'm better appreciated too. Statler and Waldorf: Doh hohohoho!
Joyful...merci, kermy 💕
Should you not be more bothered than you do not seem to be that this...puppet delivered a much more memorable, inspirational, coherent, and appropriate commencement speech at the University of Maryland, than The Commander in Chief of the US Military did at West Point!?
When you said commander in chief of the us Military it made me angry he should never have been rel elected, I hope those students know he would never sacrifice for this country.
I think that speech told them quite a bit about the person giving it.
I wasnt even there and was sobbing watching the video
yea so would have cried if i heard this speech at my college graduation
I so ❤️ this
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Can’t wait for Trump to try and censor Kermit the frog
He made a lot more sense than my commencement speaker. Nice job, Kermit!
This is the best moment in the life of all students, as someone said, the best life is, of course, the student life, my congratulations to all of them!🧐😜🤪😍👍‼️👏🫶
My guess is that very few of them will listen to a “mere frog.” But they should. Humanity needs them. 🐸 🐸
Thanks Kermy.
I have always loved Kermit the Frog, and Grover, the count, Oscar and of course Cookie Monster! I am happy that Netflix is picking up Sesame Street.
yes, future generations should experience the joy! ♥️
*While I regard this as "cute,"* I personally would NEVER have attended a commencement with a *cartoon character as "speaker."* The fact that a school of any caliber "needs" to DUMB DOWN their students, is a poor indication of today's education. *If this were a play in a theatre, then OK.*
I graduated in 1979 and I would have loved an entertaining commencement speech from Kermit the Frog than the boring blah blah blah speech I sat through.
Who hurt you?
Oh Kermit, we love you and we will always love Jim Henson.
Someday we’ll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.
It is for the ruling class of 0.01%...😭😭😭
Go Terps!
Yeah to Kermit, even a frog has more heart than these servile MAGAts in Congress
Thanks
What an amazing message and to think they are going to try and take Sesame Street away when it has been such a positive impact on generations of children
One of the streaming services just bought it, Netflix I think.
Long live Kermit!!
Would be a better prez than t-fatassrump
I worked for Jim Henson productions for a short while. I have Been in the Big Bird suit! He was loyal to his original puppeteers. Happiest place on the planet
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If any of these kids didn’t appreciate the fuck out of this they should be thoroughly smacked. Would’ve MUCH preferred him to mine a million years ago
I love Kermit, think about this. He is essentially a "sock puppet". A sock puppet who has more living brain cells and firing synapses than the entire Republican Party combined! Kermit for President!
And guess what⁉️ Fox news thru a hissy fit about this, pulling out all the old chestnuts like; woke! DEI, anti-christian bias!!! All over Kermit giving a speech😳😳😳😣😖😫😫
I would have loved to have had Kermit speak at my commencement! I don’t even remember who spoke at mine or what they said
They're just mad because Alex Jones told them the water turns the frogs gay.
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Two of my sisters were in the drama department when Henson was there.
I would have remembered Kermit at my commencement. Whoever spoke at mine I don’t remember at all.
I literally only remember mine because it was a guy who went to my high school and played at my college for a couple years before going into the nfl.
Love this University. I got my bachelor degree there while stationed everywhere in the US Army.
Kermit's dad, Wilkins, was watching from Hell.
That was a true and wonderful speech 👏
Contrast this to the absolute steaming pile of shit address Trump did at West Point today
This is really going to trigger the maga crowd.
Riley Gaines was complaining about it on Fox News as it happened.
Hopefully. 🤞🏽
A felt frog is a billion times better than a trump
And the little green woke frog has spoken! I am enamored by Kermit’s charming and insightful philosophy on life. 🤗 Congratulations Class of 2025. 👏🏽👏🏽🎓🎓
Best ever!!
I love this!
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And then ICE arrested him and sent him to Sudan.
No need to shit on joy.
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I needed this today 🥰🥰🥰
woke
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Lol...insulting.
Dear NYTimes: Drop Dead! You’ve carried Trump water or whatever fluid he’s full of.
What? This has literally nothing to do with politics, let alone Trump.
Given that he's currently attacking universities, diversity, and our entire country and that NYT helped by sane washing his rise to dictatorship, I'd say their every post is fair game for attack and ridicule
Yes Drew, that’s my point. NYT doesn’t get to pretend they are ok by printing this fluff piece. They sold out. They stomped on their own ethical commitment. F em.
What did NYT do wrong?
The bowed to Trump and trashed democrats.
NYT is left-leaning. mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-tim...
How/where?
This is a decent explanation link.motherjones.com/public/36678...
Every single time they coddled descriptions of Trump or used phrases like "Trump states alternative view to XYZ" instead of calling him them lies, meanwhile supporting an endless litany of criticism for anything pro-Harris, Biden, Dems That's what happens when you care more about money than truth
Oy
And to see news of a beloved frog bringing us back to normalcy if for only a minute..
This made me so happy to see. And sad too. These kids are going to be slogging through so much hate and stupidity and it’s our fault. I hope they can make it. They look so happy and hopeful
This is way better than what West Point got.
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I've been gathering stuffed animals for a couple of months, to give to the kids I cross. Next Friday is the last day of school. I decided to do it today, since next Friday will be tearful & chaotic. I used clothespins to hang rhe crittets to the chain link fence. It was a surprise & a success!
I happened (by chance) to see that!
Short and sweet. 👏
brilliant idea - and joyous too💖💚💚💖
yes! fight them with joy!
While we're laughing at them not with them (unless they stop what they're doing) 🐸
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I love it!
They should have started a “Kermit for President!” Chant. That would have destroyed Trump.
So much better than having a criminal from the tRump admin FUCKING LIE TO the grads.
Mississippi finest son.
This brings such joy, fun and laughter with the serious message of humanness and loving each other. What a marvelous & clever way to present a commencement speech and the crowd absolutely loved it and listened. So wonderful‼️
I teared up when he invited everyone to sing 🌈 connection with him at the end.
Oh no. I never did see that part. I definitely would've had the tears rolling.
🥰 What a lovely idea!
Nice Robe!
Kermit for president!
Miss Piggy as FLOTUS would be iconic. Imagine her, Dr. Biden, and Michelle together 😮💨
Awesome. Go Kermit.
It’s not easy being green right now… so thank you for that speech, Kermie.
That was SUPER !!!!!!!!
And they'd get more from him and rather have Kermit than any one of the ridiculous members of our current administration
You want likes for this? When you can't ever report truthfully about the man who is a rampaging solo act?
#Kermit49 more inspiring than MangoMussolinis Westpoint Address.
I think I saw the grandson of Roy Orbinson in the clip
This is both silly and awesome
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UMD shared Kermit's full speech here: www.youtube.com/live/032tRMH...
Kermit @ UMD graduation. 🥰 📌
I love my dudes
So proud of U of M for allowing this vision to happen
That’s my boy
The frog gave a much better commencement speech than Trump. The frog was more coherent and inspirational and an all-around better speaker.
PREACH
This made me tear up. I love Sesame Street so much. It’s the backdrop of my life and I feel bad for any kids that never watched it. I hope these students listen to the life lesson. He’s is right. Kermit is always right. 💕 Congrats 2025 🎓
More depth, intelligence and wisdom in Kermit than the current ass in the WH.
It is!!! 💕
Fantastic.
How wonderful! Kermit for President!!
Yea Kermit we love you
We love PBS and Kermit,and he’s buddies..
Life is better when we leap together 🫶🏼
I love this !!
Best commencement speech ever!
Kermit the Frog rocks
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If only you had a president who could string a sentence together as well as Kermit. Absolutely love his outfit.
Absolutely brilliant!
Wish I got Kermit at my graduation. Instead we had a convenience store chain CEO talking to us about AI and how human interaction was special. Could not even give us free sandwiches
We love you Kermie!!!!
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I'd love to have Kermit speak at my graduation. But apparently it bothers these two too much. Fuckin snowflakes.
Who are they?
Losers. But for real, the copy-and-paste MAGA blonde is "podcaster" Riley Gaines. The other one is Fox Propaganda Jason Chaffetz. They believe that Kermit giving a speech is insulting and unserious. But it's always projection with MAGA.
Oh, thanks for that. I know of the only truth teller, Jessica Tarlov. The propagandists I am aware of on fux are bessie waters, that drunk judge and brett baier. I seldom watch that state channel but I do for the comedy and their most recent scare tactics. Whatta weird fuckin' channel 🙄
You're welcome. Jessica is great,I don't know how she deals with her coworkers. They are ignorant fools and laugh at her as if she is what they are. @meidastouch.com includes clips from everywhere, which I appreciate because I'd never watch that shit on my own. That's what this is from.
That's so cool! 🐸
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Too late now but muppet/Sesame Street commencement speaking should be sought out. C’mon Harvard.
Very cool indeed!
Much more relevant than an incoherent political rally that couldn't even start on time. Kermit is infinitely more qualified and capable than all the cabinet summed.
It’s worth repeating “life is better when we leap together “
Great quote.
We need more of this. 🥹
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Kermit. 📌
Sounds like a fun graduation, indeed.
Lovely and spot on!
Netflix will take it up and Give to PBS TV Nice one Netflix 'Now you're Talking ... Nice one Netflix !
Way to go Netflix 👊🫸🤝🫷power to the people 🤌🫶🫳
More Kermit. Less Trump.
So jealous!
Good Lord! The amphibious Pericles! It's not easy being green but Kermit rocks it. And anyone who says different will get a karate chop from Ms Piggy.
And just like Kermit, most Maryland grads will soon have someone shoving their hand up their butt.