An accounting professor at a taxpayer-funded Pennsylvania university condemned former President Donald Trump and his supporters as “fascists” during a lecture where he urged his students to vote in November, video shared with The Daily Wire shows.
William Lloyd ripped into Trump and Republicans during a managerial accounting class on September 4 at Commonwealth University-Lock Haven. The university is part of Pennsylvania’s public education system and is located in Clinton County, an area that largely backed Trump in 2020.
“Get informed. It is important. There is a lot of disinformation out there,” Lloyd told his students last week, according to a recording of the lecture shared with The Daily Wire. “And vote. Vote in November. It’s your right. It’s your duty. As an American citizen, it is your responsibility to vote. It’s important.”
Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are currently deadlocked in Pennsylvania, one of a few states that could decide the election. Ahead of Tuesday’s debate in Philadelphia, both campaigns are reportedly vying for the city’s Latino vote.
Lloyd’s calls for his students to vote in November came just after he showed a slide that read: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.”
Slide from Lloyd’s class.
Bullets on the slide explain that “The Ronald Reagan Republican Party is Dead” and that it “has been transformed into a far right, Christian Fundamentalist, Fascists.”
The slide also took shots at the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, an effort to staff the next Republican administration with conservatives which is not affiliated with the Trump campaign. According to Lloyd, Project 2025 is a “blueprint for the overthrow of the American government,” and contains plans of “weaponizing the DOJ” and the “mass termination of federal employees”
During his lecture, Lloyd expressed his belief that the United States was currently in a civil war, and that Republicans would resort to violence after the November election. The class is supposed to focus on teaching students how managers can use accounting data in manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses, according to a syllabus reviewed by The Daily Wire.
“I think that civil war started on January 6, 2021, with the insurrection. I think it’s been brewing for many years, possibly decades,” he said. “I think we are in the midst of a civil war. I think this civil war will be fought in the ballot box, at the ballot box, and in the courts, and possibly, ultimately in the streets. Because I do think this is going to turn violent after the November 5th election. I think we’re going see a resurgence of January 6 because these MAGA Republicans are not going to go quietly into this good night.”
A student in the class told The Daily Wire that Lloyd had previously opened up class with discussions of current events, but in a more neutral way that connected to class issues. The student said that Lloyd’s attacks on Republicans were completely inappropriate.
“As a student aligned with the Republican Party, these statements were not only deeply offensive but also seemed grossly inappropriate for an academic setting, particularly in a managerial accounting class where such political commentary appeared irrelevant to the course material,” the student said.
“Professors and educators must navigate current events with sensitivity to ensure they are maintaining a neutral unbiased learning space. This story is important because students like me deserve to receive the quality education we are paying for, rather than being subjected to the professor’s personal choices,” the student added.
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The accounting professor also directed students to visit his blog, where he frequently lambasts Trump and his supporters. In a September 3 post, Lloyd said that Trump was an “anti-Christ.”
“Throughout history, there have been many anti-Christ’s. Adolph Hitler, Vladimir Putin, and Osama Ben Laden [sic] to name a few. Let me be clear. Trump is an anti-Christ. He pretends to stand for Christian values, but he does not. The risk of another Donald Trump Presidency is the loss of our Democracy, the loss of human rights, and the inhumane, immoral, atrocities that would be leveled on the American population,” he wrote.
In an August post, Lloyd wrote that Trump “belongs in jail, not in the oval office.”
School administrators told The Daily Wire they were looking into the incident, and that staff were not supposed to endorse political figures.
“Commonwealth University officials are aware of the concerns that have been raised and the university is looking into the matter,” a school spokesman told The Daily Wire. “The personal views and opinions of our faculty and staff do not reflect the views and opinions of the university as a whole, and the university does not endorse political candidates.”
In an email to The Daily Wire, Lloyd admitted that he had crossed a line and said he would apologize to his class.
“I should not have expressed my views to the students, that was an error in judgement on my part,” Lloyd said. “I will refrain from such discussion in the future. My political views are what they are and I stand by them, but I agree that It was inappropriate to express my views to the students. I will apologize to them.”
