They both defied expectations to achieve positions of power while sporting gravity-defying blonde hair, so you can see why Donald Trump may have looked to Elle Woods, the famously ditsy-but-smart main character of 2001 proto-feminist comedy Legally Blonde, for inspiration when he was tasked with giving a commencement speech at Liberty University on Saturday.

The US President discussed many things during his at the podium while at the university in Lynchburg, Virginia – his third speech at the institution. He compared his election victory to that of the graduates before him, he spoke about how he stuck to his word that he would come and give the commencement speech, he said the words: "I always loved Mothers Day".