LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's commencement address at Liberty University (all times local):

11:40 a.m.

President Donald Trump says "so much has changed" since he last spoke at Virginia's Liberty University in January 2016 — when he delivered the convocation address at one of the country's most prominent evangelical Christian institutions.

Back then, he was one of many Republican candidates running to be president. And now he's in the White House.

Trump has given the commencement address and he's citing the class of 2017, "dressed in cap and gown graduating to a totally brilliant future."

And he tells graduates that he's standing before them as the country's leader.

He says: "I'm guessing there are some people here today who thought that either one of those things — either one — would really require major help from God. Do we agree?"

After applause from the crowd, Trump said: "And we got it."

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11:10 a.m.

President Donald Trump is telling college graduates that they should "relish the opportunity to be an outsider."

He says outsiders "change the world and make a real and lasting difference."

Trump is delivering his first commencement speech as president at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

He says his message to those in the audience is "never, ever give up" and "never stop fighting for what you believe in."

Trump was an outsider who challenged the political establishment on the way to winning the White House. He tells students that they should "be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched and failed power structures." He then asked, "Does that sound familiar, by the way?"

And he says the more that people say something can't be done, "the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong."