President Donald Trump escalated his war with Harvard University on Wednesday, accusing “the country’s treatment of great respect,” indicating that he should stop fighting his policies.
“But Harvard wants to fight. They want to show their intelligence, and they get A-kicking, as Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
“All they do is to be deeper, deeper and deeper,” Trump said. “They have to behave.”
President Harvard accused of being anti -Semitism and taking billions of dollars in federal dollars.
President Donald Trump takes questions from the press during a ceremony that divided the interim American lawyer for the Colombia Province, Janine Peru, at the White House in Washington, May 28, 2025.
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“I think they are dealing very badly,” Trump said. “Every time they fight, they lose another $ 250 million,” Trump said. “Yesterday, we found another $ 100 million.”
The president also doubled his allegations that the school had recorded many foreign students and was not done enough to ensure that “rioters” are not “rioters.”
“They take people from the world’s extreme regions, and we do not want them to face troubles in our country,” Trump said, adding that Harvard should achieve its 15 % foreign students.
Iliot House Harvard Tower on Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 27, 2025.
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“We have people who want to go to Harvard and other schools. They cannot enter because we have foreign students there. But I want to make sure that foreign students are people who can love our country,” he said.
Last month, Minister of Internal Security Christie Sleep sent a message to Harvard University, which demands information about each international student with a F-1 visa that allows non-immigrants to study in the United States, and warned that failure to comply with the request would lead to the withdrawal of the student program certificate and the school exchange program.
Harvard, who filed a lawsuit against the administration because of its financing and grant discounts, said in a statement that it provided the federal government with “thousands of data points related to the most complete F-1 visa students.” However, last week, Nayyim announced that she had canceled the school’s SEVP certificate and prevented it from accepting foreign students.
Harvard University filed a lawsuit the next day and gave the judge temporarily to block this step.
President Donald Trump is speaking during the oath of the US temporary lawyer for Washington, DC, Janine Peru, at the White House Oval Office, May 28, 2025 in Washington.
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When asked about a group of Jewish students at Harvard University, who protested on Tuesday the threats of the federal government and the disposable of the anti -Semitism, Trump refused to criticize them and repeated his allegations of Harvard’s insecurity and other elite institutions.
“They harm themselves. They are fighting,” Trump said. “As you know, Colombia was really, and they were very bad. What they did with this exhibition and many other things. But they are working with us to find a solution. And as you know, they remove it from this hot seat. But Harvard wants to fight.”
