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US President Donald Trump blew up on Truth Social over a claim from an author Michael Wolff that he was rejected by the prestigious Harvard University. Trump said Monday that it is "totally FALSE" that his administration's legal entanglements with Harvard University are connected to him not being admitted to the Ivy League university.Furiously denying claims that he is attacking Harvard because he didn't get in, Trump lashed out at Michael Wolff, the biographer who made the claim and has written about the president extensively, in a Truth Social post Monday evening.Wolff, author of several books about the president, claimed on The Daily Beast Podcast last week that Trump 'didn't get into Harvard' and suggested he's now targeting the university in part because he holds a '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 said.'That story is totally FALSE, I never applied to Harvard. I graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania,' Trump continued. 'He is upset because his book about me was a total 'BOMB.' Nobody wanted it, because his 'reporting' and reputation is so bad!'Wolff presented his theory about the president last week on The Daily Beast Podcast to host Joanna Coles. 'It's also odd because so many of the people around Donald Trump went to Ivy League universities. Several of them went to Harvard Business School,' Coles pointed out. 'Obviously, JD Vance proudly went to Yale. So it does seem particularly odd, but perhaps he's also trying to stuff it to them.''It's important not to lend too much calculation and planning to anything he does,' Wolff responded. 'But the other thing is that, by the way, he didn't get into Harvard. So one of the Trump things is always holding a grudge against the Ivy Leagues.'It comes as the Trump administration has been accused of waging a 'campaign of retribution' against the university.There are no proof to confirm the Michael Wolff 's claim as there are no official record—public or private—that confirms Donald Trump ever applied to Harvard in the 1960s. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has escalated its crackdown on Harvard, first freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding and then suspending the university's ability to enroll international students. These punitive measures followed Harvard's failure to comply with government demands to address reported antisemitic incidents and to provide federal officials with lists of foreign students.Trump's higher education began at Fordham University in 1964. He studied for two years at the Bronx Catholic private school before transferring to the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at Penn. He graduated from the Ivy League university with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1968.First Lady Melania Trump also recently shot down a rumor that the youngest Trump child, Barron Trump, applied to Harvard and was denied admission to the university."Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false," the first lady said in a statement to The Palm Beach Post. Barron Trump recently finished his freshman year at New York University's Stern School of Business.White House spokesperson Taylor Rodgers said in an email to The Daily Beast last week: "The Daily Beast and Michael Wolff have lots in common—they both peddle fake news for clickbait in a hopeless attempt to amount to something more than lying losers.""The President didn't need to apply to an overrated, corrupt institution like Harvard to become a successful businessman and the most transformative President in history," Rodgers said
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