Why Does Trump Keep Saying Harvard Teaches Remedial Math?
The White House has an expanding list of complaints about Harvard. Among them: a puzzling claim that Harvard kids can't do math.
'Did you see that, where the students can't add two and two and they go to Harvard?' President Trump said on May 23 during an Oval Office briefing.
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