"For this, I'm sorry that was never the intent, and I want you to know I have heard you and we are responding."

Instead, the ceremony would be "refocused more centrally on students" and WSU Tech practical nursing graduate Rebecca Zinabu would be the sole speaker, according to the release.

Utash said the invitation to Trump was extended in February and that the White House adviser offered to record a "congratulatory message to graduates" to be played during the ceremony.

On Friday, Trump posted the nearly 10-minute prerecorded address on Twitter and spoke out about "cancel culture."

"Our nation's campuses should be bastions of free speech.

Cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination are antithetical to academia.

Listening to one another is important now more than ever!" she wrote on Twitter.

In her video message, Trump focused on the coronavirus pandemic and said her "heart goes out" to the graduates on this day, adding "changes and hardships do not predict failure.