Adelphi Lacrosse Uses President Trump Speech As Entrance Music

For those of you who are unfamiliar, Adelphi University is a private, non-sectarian school located in Nassau County, NY.

Adelphi has a rather impressive lacrosse program that has won seven NCAA national championships through the years.

This season, Panthers Lacrosse has been using a President Trump speech as their entrance music.

Naturally, Adelphi is receiving big league backlash online as a result.

Lax team comes out of the tunnel to a Trump speech. Somewhere @oldrowofficial is cumming themselves. Follow @barstoolnewsnet if you like to argue with people in comment sections

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Adelphi: a school that prides itself on diversity that allowed its all white lax team to walk onto the field to a Trump speech. The irony.

— Meg (@MeghanUrschel) May 10, 2017

Adelphi University (never heard of it) men’s lacrosse team ran out onto the field with a Trump speech playing. That’s embarrassing.

— Jacob Fagan (@jacobfagan) May 10, 2017

WATCH: Adelphi University lacrosse team plays Donald Trump speech as pregame music. https://t.co/yycPwCbKsB pic.twitter.com/DIN0hMwFXs

— WFAN Sports Radio (@WFAN660) May 10, 2017

From CBS NewYork:

Donald Trump has been giving a college lacrosse team pregame pep talks, although the president may not be aware of it.

On Wednesday, Barstool Sports posted a video on Instagram showing the Adelphi University lacrosse team listening to a recorded speech from Trump just before running onto the field. Adelphi is located in Garden City, Long Island.

It’s not clear which game the video is from. Club music plays underneath Trump’s words while a player from the team holds up a pole with the American flag.

“In all of our cities and all of our towns, I make this promise: We will make America strong again, we will make America proud again, we will make America safe again, and we will make America great again,” Trump says in the recording. “God bless you, and good night. I love you.”

The team then trots onto the field together. As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 563,000 people had viewed the video.

Adelphi athletic director Danny McCabe told Newsday that pregame music is selected as a team and cannot contain vulgarity or inappropriate subject matter. The lacrosse team’s selection does not violate that policy, he said.

The Adelphi Panthers are 14-3 and in first place in the Northeast-10 Conference, an NCAA Division II league.

The program has won seven national championships and reached the national title game 12 times, the last time coming in 2011.

Adelphi had no choice but to release a statement. To the surprise of some, the university defended the team’s use of the song.