Trump blasts reporter's ‘totally FALSE' rumors about Harvard University grudge
'Michael Wolff, a Third Rate Reporter, who is laughed at even by the scoundrels of the Fake News, recently stated that the only reason I'm 'beating up' on Harvard, is because I applied there, and didn't get in,' Trump raged in a Truth Social post about the author late Monday.
'That story is totally FALSE, I never applied to Harvard,' he maintained.
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'I graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.'
Wolff, who penned 'Fire & Fury' about Trump's first administration, had claimed on The Daily Beast Podcast last week that the prez held a 'grudge' against the elite school because he'd been rejected.
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'He needs an enemy,' Wolff claimed of the president. 'That's what makes the show great. The Trump show. He picks fantastic enemies, actually. And Harvard, for all it represents, fits right into the Trump show.'
After being asked if he thought Trump's hatred of Harvard was odd given those close to him are all Ivy League educated, Wolff said: 'It's important not to lend too much calculation and planning to anything he does.'
'But the other thing is that, by the way, he didn't get into Harvard,' the author continued.
5 Author Michael Wolff discussing his book 'All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America' at The 92nd Street Y on Friday, March 14, 2025, in New York.
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5 Trump tore into author Michael Wolff, who has written several books about the president, after he recently suggested the White House's crackdown on Harvard was a personal vendetta.
'So one of the Trump things is always holding a grudge against the Ivy Leagues.'
Trump, for his part, accused Wolff of going after him because of plummeting book sales.
'He is upset because his book about me was a total 'BOMB.' Nobody wanted it, because his 'reporting' and reputation is so bad!' Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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5 Wolff, who penned 'Fire & Fury' about Trump's first administration, had claimed on The Daily Beast Podcast last week that the prez held a 'grudge' against the elite school because he'd been rejected.
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5 Demonstrators with signs stand around the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard following a rally against President Donald Trump's attacks on Harvard University at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 17, 2025.
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It comes soon after first lady Melania Trump shot down a viral conspiracy theory that her son Barron, too, applied to Harvard and was rejected.
'Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false,' the first lady's spokesman said.
The 19-year-old's admissions status had been the subject of furious speculation on social media amid his father's repeated attacks — and cancellation of grants and other federal funds — on the Ivy League institution.
Barron completed his freshman year at New York University last month.
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