President Donald Trump encouraged college graduates to “break the system” while bragging that top internet executives like billionaire Elon Musk initially “hated me in my first term, and now they’re kissing my ass.”

“If you look at some of these internet people, I know so many of them, Elon is so terrific. But I know, now all of them, you know they all hated me in my first term, and now they’re kissing my ass. It’s true. All of them. It’s true,” he said to applause before graduating students at the University of Alabama Thursday night.