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3 days ago
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Did Harvard reject Trump? Is that why he holds a grudge against the university?
Trump's biographer, Michael Wolff, has claimed that the US president's anger towards Ivy League colleges, especially Harvard, comes from the fact that he failed to make it to the prestigious college. However, the White House denied the claims, saying Trump never applied to the 'overrated, corrupt' institute read more According to presidential biographer Michael Wolff, Trump's anger toward Harvard University does not stem from Barron's rejection, but from the fact that Trump himself never made it to Harvard. Representational image Earlier this week, rumours lit up social media claiming that US President Donald Trump was going after Harvard University because his youngest son, Barron Trump, had been rejected by the Ivy League school. But the speculation was quickly put to rest by First Lady Melania Trump, who clarified that Barron never applied to Harvard in the first place. Now, a new theory has surfaced, this time from Michael Wolff, the President's biographer, suggesting that Trump's grudge against the university might be more personal than anyone thought. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD According to him, Trump's anger does not stem from Barron's non-existent rejection, but from the fact that Trump himself never made it to Harvard. So, is Trump's feud with the elite institution actually about his own past? What exactly did Wolff say? And how is the White House responding to these claims? Here's a closer look. Trump has a 'grudge' against the Ivy League? During a recent episode of The Daily Beast podcast hosted by Joanna Coles, the conversation turned to Trump's apparent hostility toward elite universities. Coles noted how many in Trump's circle are Ivy League alumni. '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,' she said. 'Obviously, JD Vance proudly went to Yale. So it does seem particularly odd, but perhaps he's also trying to stuff it to them.' In response, Michael Wolff, who has authored several books on Trump, including 'Fire and Fury, Siege: Trump Under Fire', and the latest 'All or Nothing', suggested there may be a more personal reason behind Trump's disdain for the Ivy League. 'It's important not to lend too much calculation and planning to anything he does,' Wolff said. '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.' A Harvard sign is seen at the Harvard University campus in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 27. AFP While there's no official record confirming whether Trump ever applied to Harvard, let alone if he was rejected, Wolff's remark adds to the theory that the president's Ivy League animosity may be rooted in his own academic history. Trump began his college education at Fordham University in 1964 after four years at the New York Military Academy. Two years later, he transferred to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD But Trump's academic credibility has long been under scrutiny. In 2020, The Washington Post revealed audio recordings made by Mary Trump, the president's niece, in which Trump's sister, the late federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, made some startling claims. 'I drove him around New York City to try to get him into college,' Trump Barry said in the 2018–19 recordings. She added, 'He went to Fordham for one year and then he got into the University of Pennsylvania because he had somebody take the exams.' The White House swiftly dismissed the claims at the time, saying it was 'false' that anyone else had taken Trump's SATs. When asked by The Post to respond to the recordings, Trump simply said: 'Who cares?' President Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in July 27, 2024 in Nashville. File image/AP According to The New York Times reporters Ross Buettner and Susanne Craig, in their 2024 book 'Lucky Loser, Trump' was a mediocre student at Fordham. He didn't even make the dean's list in his first year, which only required a GPA of 3.5, equivalent to a B+. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD And while much speculation continues to swirl around his Harvard rejection, what is known, though, is that as a young man, Trump had dreams of going to film school at the University of Southern California (USC). Ironically, USC, too, has now become a target of his ire. After the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights said USC failed to meet its Title VI obligations under the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students, Trump cut federal research funding, causing the institution to lose $17.5 million. 'The Trump show' Wolff claimed that apart from 'holding the grudge', Trump's 'TV star instincts as a producer' play a key role in his legal battle against Ivy League universities, particularly Harvard. According to him, Trump 'needs an enemy'. 'That's what makes the show great, the Trump show. He picks fantastic enemies. And Harvard, for all it represents, fits right into the Trump show. The president loves the drama,' he told The Daily Beast. 'He's done what he set out to do - dominate the headline. What do you do? You go after Harvard in a way that is draconian, dramatic, and existential. It's threatening Harvard on that level,' he added_._ STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD For Trump, Wolff added, Harvard becomes just another character in the unfolding drama that is the 'Trump show'. People walk between buildings on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge. File image/AP In recent weeks, that drama has escalated. The Trump-led administration moved to revoke Harvard University's ability to enrol new international students, a policy that has since been temporarily blocked by a US judge. Before that, the White House had also placed a $2.2 billion freeze on federal funding to the university. Trump reportedly offered to lift the funding ban but only under certain conditions that Harvard refused to accept. Throughout, Trump has doubled down on his criticism, accusing Harvard and other elite universities of promoting progressive ideologies and nurturing a so-called 'woke' campus culture. The White House reacts to Wolff's claims Unsurprisingly, the White House didn't take Wolff's latest remarks lightly. Taylor Rogers, a spokesperson for the administration, pushed back hard against both Wolff and The Daily Beast, dismissing their reporting entirely. 'They both peddle fake news for clickbait in a hopeless attempt to amount to something more than lying losers,' Rogers said. '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.' STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD The White House has previously shot down another claim the author made that Melania Trump had 'separated' from her husband and that their marriage was no longer traditional. The White House fired back, calling Wolff 'a blithering idiot.' With input from agencies
New Indian Express
3 days ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Biographer says Trump's Harvard grudge might just be a case of bruised ego — and it's not his son who got rejected
US President Donald Trump's ongoing feud with Harvard University has sparked speculation about its origins, with a popular theory suggesting that Trump's animosity stems from his son Barron not being accepted. However, presidential biographer Michael Wolff offers a different perspective, Wolff claims it was Trump himself who was rejected by Harvard, fueling a longstanding grudge against the Ivy League. Wolff, author of bestsellers such as 'Fire and Fury and All or Nothing', shared his views during a recent episode of The Daily Beast podcast. When host Joanna Coles pointed out that many people in Trump's circle, including some who attended Harvard Business School and Yale, seemed at odds with the president's hostility toward elite universities, Wolff responded: '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. So one of the Trump things is always holding a grudge against the Ivy Leagues.' Despite Wolff's claim, there are no publicly available records or biographies confirming whether Trump applied to or was rejected by Harvard. His known education history includes attending Fordham University for two years before transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1968.
News18
3 days ago
- Politics
- News18
Trump Biographer Explains Why US President Hates Harvard: 'He Didn't Get Into It'
Last Updated: Michael Wolff said, 'So one of the Trump things is always holding a grudge against the Ivy League.' As Donald Trump ramped up his campaign against Harvard University, his longtime biographer Michael Wolff offered a striking personal theory on US President's animosity toward the Ivy League school. In a recent episode of The Daily Beast's podcast, Michael Wolff- author of Fire and Fury, Siege, and All or Nothing- dismissed the internet speculation that Donald Trump's anger toward Harvard is due to his son Barron being denied admission. Instead, he pointed to Trump's own past. 'He didn't get into Harvard," Michael Wolff claimed, adding, 'So one of the Trump things is always holding a grudge against the Ivy League." While podcast host Joanna Coles noted that several of Donald Trump's allies have Harvard connections, Michael Wolff argued that personal resentment and Donald Trump's instinct for confrontation were far more central to his current attacks. 'It's important not to lend too much calculation and planning to anything he does," he said, explaining, 'Harvard just fits perfectly into the kind of elite enemy Trump loves to take down." All of this is part of 'the Trump show", the biographer said, adding, 'He needs an enemy. Harvard, for all it represents, fits right into that narrative. It's drama. It's domination of the headlines. And that's what Trump lives for." There is no official record confirming that Donald Trump ever applied to Harvard as he attended Fordham University before transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics. Donald Trump accused the university of antisemitism, frozen $2.2 billion in federal funding, and barred it from enrolling new international students unless it complies with a set of White House demands. Harvard has refused to yield, calling the restrictions unlawful. The Donald Trump administration has also ordered consular officers to apply enhanced scrutiny to visa applicants headed to Harvard. Watch India Pakistan Breaking News on CNN-News18. Get breaking news, in-depth analysis, and expert perspectives on everything from geopolitics to diplomacy and global trends. Stay informed with the latest world news only on News18. Download the News18 App to stay updated! First Published:
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Biographer: This Is the ‘Real Reason' He Hates Harvard
There's a running joke going around the White House that President Donald Trump is out for Harvard's blood because his son Barron didn't get in—one scotched by First Lady Melania Trump in an unprecedented piercing of her veil of privacy. But presidential biographer Michael Wolff has suggested a very different explanation for Trump's vendetta: he's the one that couldn't attend the prestigious Ivy League. Wolff, author of bestsellers Fire & Fury and this year's All or Nothing advanced the suggestion on Thursday's episode of The Daily Beast Podcast in a discussion with host Joanna Coles about his war on Harvard and other elite colleges. '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 said. 'Obviously, JD Vance proudly went to Yale. So it does seem particularly odd, but perhaps he's also trying to stuff it to them too.' 'It's important not to lend too much calculation and planning to anything he does,' Wolff said. '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.' Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson, was critical about Wolff's claim. She did not, however, confirm on the record whether or not Trump applied to Harvard. '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," she said in an email. '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.' The White House has previously called Wolff 'a lying sack of s--t,' which he has laughed off. There are no publicly available records or reports which would shed light on whether Trump did apply to Harvard in the 1960s. Published biographies have not made that assertion. The potential that his war on Harvard is motivated by personal grudge may appear to be trivial, but his moves against the university are already at the center of high-stakes litigation and questions of motivation would be likely to be closely scrutinized by Harvard's counsel. What is known about his higher education is that as a young boy, Trump dreamed of going to film school at the University of Southern California, a school that's also borne the brunt of his recent attacks. The institution has lost $17.5 million after Trump stripped money from federal research grants after the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights said it did not 'fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus.' After finishing high school at the New York Military Academy, Trump's dreams of attending film school were dashed. He enrolled at Fordham University in 1964, commuting to the private Catholic school in the Bronx from his family home in Jamaica Estates, Queens. 'I'd been away at school for five years, and I wanted to see my parents,' Trump said in Gwenda Blair's The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate, noting that the school was close to home. According to his sister Maryanne Trump Barry, who passed away in 2023, he opted to attend Fordham because they let him in. At Fordham, his grades were average, wrote The New York Times investigative journalists Ross Buettner and Susanne Craig in their 2024 book Lucky Loser. Trump did not make the dean's list in his first year, which only required a GPA of 3.5, or the equivalent of a B+. After only two years at Fordham, Trump's brother Fred called in a favor. His good friend, Jim Nolan, had just taken a job at the University of Pennsylvania's admissions office. 'Freddy requested a favor. Could Nolan schedule an interview to get his kid brother into the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce?' wrote Buettner and Craig. Nolan agreed. When Trump and his father showed up, they were gracious and warm, 'but it was all show,' Nolan added. Nolan said that Trump's grades from Fordham were 'sufficient' to meet the Wharton standards of that era. 'I would say we probably accepted thirty, forty percent of the people who applied,' Nolan said. Only later did Wharton become the highly sought-after institution it is today, the book noted. Trump's then attorney Michael Cohen wrote to Fordham in the run-up to the 2016 election to demand that it keep his transcripts secret. Trump graduated from UPenn in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics. Trump's two older sons, Don Jr. and Eric, went to UPenn but his son-in-law Jared Kushner attended Harvard. He was accepted months after his father, New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner, pledged $2.5 million to the university. Daniel Golden quoted a number of people at Kushner's high school as saying he did not have the GPA or SAT scores to get accepted into Harvard in his book, The Price of Admission. The war on Harvard is now one of Trump's most high-profile campaigns. In April, the White House stripped the university of much of its federal funding after Harvard refused to bend the knee to the president's orders. Trump had already succeeded in his attempts to exert control over other Ivy Leagues like Columbia, forcing them to change their policies, staff, and curriculum to stamp out rhetoric related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices or anything that was deemed anti-Israel sentiment. On May 25, Trump demanded the 'names and countries' of all international students enrolled in Harvard, later vowing to determine 'how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country.' 'But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!' he wrote on Truth Social. Wolff suggested that aside from potential grudge, the reality TV star's instincts as a producer are key to understanding his actions. 'He needs an enemy,' he said, adding: 'That's what make the show great, the Trump show. He picks fantastic enemies, actually. And Harvard, for all it represents, fits right into the Trump show.' The president loves the drama, Wolff said. 'He's done what he set out to do,' he said. 'Dominate the headlines. What do you do? You go after Harvard and you go after Harvard in a way that is draconian, dramatic, and existential. It's threatening Harvard on that level.' Wolff added that even when the higher institutions and federal judges fight back, it's all part of the president's scheme to stay in the spotlight. 'So [Harvard] will oppose this and therefore the courts will stop this from happening. But at the same time, that becomes another aspect to the Trump show,' he said. 'He forces them to play their part, which is to oppose him.'
New York Post
15-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Maple Leafs fans turn on Auston Matthews in ugly playoff loss
Maple Leafs fans made their feelings about Auston Matthews quite clear on Wednesday night. A member of the Toronto faithful tossed Matthews' jersey onto the ice as the team was in the midst of getting dismantled 6-1 by the Panthers at ScotiaBank Arena. 'I don't think we gave them much reason to stick around,' Matthews told reporters of the negative fan reaction. The loss was the third straight for the Maple Leafs after they won the opening two games, and now are on the brink of elimination with the series shifting back to South Florida for Game 6 on Friday night. Matthews is goalless in this series. He hasn't scored since the deciding Game 6 against the Senators in the first round. 'I don't think there's really any excuse or explanation,' Matthews said of the team's lifeless performance. 'We've got to win a game to keep our season alive.' Auston Matthews before the Maple Leafs loss to the Panthers in Game 6 on May 14, 2025. NHLI via Getty Images Matthews, 27, is in the second year of a four-year, $53 million contract, and it's possible it will be his last season playing alongside fellow star Mitch Marner. Marner, 28, led the team with 102 points this season but is heading toward free agency this offseason. Fans on social media trashed the team's two biggest stars. Auston Matthews (left) and Mitch Marner dejected on the Maple Leafs bench. AP 'I'm gonna say it and you can trash me all you want. I'm sick of Matthews more than I'm sick of Marner. They can both leave for all I care. Absolute loser energy players,' one fan wrote on X. 'Did anyone tell Marner and Matthews that 'All or Nothing' was not meant to be taken literally orrrrrr ?' TNT reporter Jackie Redmond wrote. stream sports and more with sling tv Sling Stream tonight's NHL playoff games (and every one that comes after) with Sling TV, which has every channel you'll need to tune in. Score 34 channels in the Sling TV Orange plan, which includes ESPN, ESPN2, TBS, TNT, and ESPN3 (where you'll be able to watch ABC games simulcast live). Right now, you can save 50% off your first month with Sling TV, so instead of paying $45.99, you'll pay just $23 when you sign up today. SLING TV New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. The scrutinized franchise has not won a Stanley Cup since 1967, and the team now has to rally to win two straight against the defending champions to keep their season alive. Toronto was a goal away from taking a 3-0 series lead, but fell 5-4 in overtime in Game 3 before getting outscored 8-1 in the next two games. 'This what was the worst performance we've seen in a long time in a game that had so many implications,' Rangers legend Mark Messier said on the ESPN postgame show. '(One of) two things are going to happen going into Game 6: This was so devastating for the Maple Leafs, they completely quit on themselves and each other or this is going to be so incredibly embarrassing that they are going to rally around each other and come up with their best performance of the year… They have to show up and show some character.'
