Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Thursday dismissed college students who chose to protest against Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday.
“The reality is they are a bunch of spoiled cry babies,” said Giuliani on Fox News. Still, the vocal Trump supporter suggested that Trump should try to console distraught students.
“You should find a way to listen and talk about it and say to them, look, you are overdoing it. Take a while and evaluate my presidency a year from now. My advice to Donald would be to say that,” said Giuliani in response to the reports. “Give me a year and I think you are going to find you are living in a much better country than you are living right now. If not, I don’t know, you can go cry then.”
Giuliani said he doubted most students were crying over Trump’s victory. “[S]omeone said we’re bringing up a generation of cry babies. Most kids aren’t crying, most are going to class,” he said.
Giuliani said he has spoken at a number of college campuses and he believes there are more conservative students than there used to be, and said they are rebelling against the professors that are the remaining “left-wing loonies.”
“We’re growing up a slightly higher percentage of conservative students than we used to. They are rebelling against the professors. If you’re looking at the real left-wing loonies on campus it’s the professors not the students,” he said.
He argued that Trump’s message reached more young people than people might think, as many are faced with poor job prospects after spending all their time and money on a degree that isn’t as marketable as they thought.
“They are starting to realize, I got to get a job when I leave here, and my friend who graduated last year had to take a job for half of what I thought I was going to make,” he said.
