President Trump tore Harvard to shreds on Wednesday in the Oval Office when he was asked several questions about the ongoing battle between his Administration and the Ivy League University.
The Trump Administration froze more than $2.7 billion in multi-year research grants and $60 million in contracts for the school last month. The Administration is also cracking down on Harvard’s use of student visas.
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security informed Harvard University that it will no longer be allowed to issue student visas for international applicants.
The decision follows Harvard’s failure to supply documentation confirming that it adheres to U.S. laws prohibiting discrimination in the name of DEI, toleration of campus violence, and collaboration with authoritarian foreign regimes, including the Chinese Communist Party.
However, an Obama Judge blocked the Trump Administration from revoking Harvard’s foreign enrollment abilities on Friday.
During Jeanine Pirro’s swearing-in as Interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia, President Trump took questions on his ongoing feud with Harvard.
During the press conference, the President doubled down on his threat to take $3 billion in grant money from Harvard and redistribute it to trade schools across the United States. “With that kind of money, and money from others, but money from them, you can have the best trade schools anywhere in the world,” he said.
Watch:
Reporter: When could the administration resume the interviews for foreign students’ visas?
Trump: Well, we’re going to see. Look, Harvard has been a disaster. They’ve taken five plus, by the way, $5 billion plus. $5 billion. Nobody knew that they were making this kind— if we didn’t do this, nobody would have, we would have never found this out, Pam. They’re taking $5 billion, and I’d rather see that money go to trade schools. And by the way, they’re totally anti-semitic at Harvard, as you know, and some other colleges too, in all fairness to them. And it’s been exposed, very exposed, and I think they’re dealing very badly. Every time they fight, they lose another $250 million. Yesterday, we found another $100 million, and they have, you know, they have a fund, an endowment, $52 billion, all right? They get a lot of that from the United States, and I think it’s ridiculous. I think this— everyone’s coming up to me saying, we love the idea of trade schools. With that kind of money, and money from others, but money from them, you can have the best trade schools anywhere in the world. You give them to Iowa, Indiana, lots of good states, well run states, and you give them the money, they can only be used for trade schools, and they’ll teach people how to build motors and cars and AI. You know the AI, we’re building plants, we’re building hundreds of billions of dollars worth of AI plants already started, many of them. We’ve never had a boom like we’re having now. You’re going to see it. There’s never been anything like it. So we’re up to about $14 trillion in investments. There’s never been anything even close. You look at Biden, this guy, they had people leaving, as opposed to investing. And they’re doing it because of November 5th, and they’re doing it because of the tariffs. The tariffs have been tremendous. Well, I can promise you, and I have great respect for the people at the European Union, they wouldn’t be over here today negotiating if I didn’t put a 50% tariff on. The sad thing is now, when I make a deal with them, it’s something much more reasonable, they’ll say, ‘oh, he was chicken. He was chicken.’ That’s so unbelievable. I usually have the opposite problem. They say, ‘You’re too tough.’
The President then slammed Harvard for taking almost 31% foreign students, many of whom are “troublemakers,” he said. “I think they should have a cap of maybe around 15%, not 31%. We have people who want to go to Harvard and other schools. They can’t get in because we have foreign students there.”
Reporter: On Harvard, there were some Jewish students protesting on campus yesterday. They said they don’t want you making these huge cuts, cutting off student visas to Harvard in their name…
Trump: Well, Harvard has to show us their lists. They have foreign students; about 31% of their students are foreign-based. Almost 31%. We want to know where those students come. Are they troublemakers? What countries do they come? And we’re not going to— if somebody is coming from a certain country and they’re 100% fine, which I hope most of them are, but many of them won’t be. You’re going to see some very radical people. They’re taking people from areas of the world that are very radicalized, and we don’t want them making trouble in our country. So, I saw yesterday that in the middle, in the middle of the UK, there was a nice young man, he wants to go back to school at Harvard, and he looked good to me, but I want to check his past. But we want to be able to see— you know, these countries aren’t helping us. They’re not investing in Harvard and all of our— we are. So, why would 31%, why would a number so big? Number one, I think they should have a cap of maybe around 15%, not 31%. We have people who want to go to Harvard and other schools. They can’t get in because we have foreign students there. But I want to make sure that the foreign students are people that can love our country. We don’t want to see shopping centers exploding. We don’t want to see the kind of riots that you had. And I’ll tell you what, many of those students didn’t go anywhere. Many of those students were trying students were troublemakers caused by the radical left lunatics in this country.
President Trump further slammed Harvard, saying they are no longer a great school, as evidenced by its new courses on low-skilled, or “remedial,” math, apparently including basic high school algebra.
According to the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, “The Harvard Math Department will pilot a new introductory course aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students, according to Harvard’s Director of Introductory Math Brendan A. Kelly.”
“They’re letting people in, and they’re bragging about how they’re teaching them basic mathematics,” the President said. “Where did these people come from?”
Trump said that he wants Harvard “to be great again,” but they “want to fight.” He continued, “They want to show how smart they are, and they’re getting their ass kicked.”
Reporter: How will the confrontation with Harvard end?
Trump: I don’t know. I don’t know, but Harvard’s got to behave themselves. Harvard is treating our country with great disrespect, and all they’re doing is getting in deeper and deeper and deeper. They’ve got to behave themselves. You know, I’m looking out for the country and for Harvard. I want Harvard to do well. I want Harvard to be great again, probably, because how could it be great? How could it be great when you have– Harvard announced two weeks ago that they’re going to teach remedial mathematics, remedial meaning, they’re going to teach low-grade mathematics, like two plus two is four. How did these people get into Harvard if they can’t, if they can’t do basic mathematics? How did they do it? I mean, people with 1600 on their boards don’t get in, and they’re getting they’re letting people in, and they’re bragging about how they’re teaching them basic mathematics. Where did these people come from? So, we have to look at the list, and Harvard has to understand, the last thing I want to do is hurt them. They’re hurting themselves, they’re fighting. You know, Colombia has been really— they were very, very bad what they’ve done, they’re very anti-semitic, and lots of other things. But they’re working with us on finding a solution, and you know, they take it off that hot seat, but Harvard wants to fight. They want to show how smart they are, and they’re getting their ass kicked.
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