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New York Post
3 days ago
- Business
- New York Post
Trump blasts reporter's ‘totally FALSE' rumors about Harvard University grudge
President Trump has ripped 'totally FALSE' rumors that he is targeting Harvard University because he was rejected by the Ivy League school. '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. Advertisement 5 President Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. AP '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. Advertisement '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. CJ Rivera/Invision/AP Advertisement 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. Advertisement 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. Getty Images 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. AFP via Getty Images 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.
Fox News
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Anti-Trump comedian jokes she was booted from WHCA for 'talking sh--'
Comedian Amber Ruffin claimed on Saturday that the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) canceled her appearance at their annual dinner after she began "talking sh--" about the Trump administration. While appearing on CNN's comedy show "Have I Got News for You," host Roy Wood Jr. asked Ruffin about the memo from WHCA president Eugene Daniels that revealed the board decided unanimously to remove her performance as part of a "re-envisioning" of the tradition. Wood wondered whether Ruffin was pulled after she began previewing how she was going to target Republicans at the WHCA dinner, to which Ruffin agreed. "I could f---ing talk for the next three hours," Ruffin said. "But what I choose to say is, it's like, I lost the gig because I was out here talking sh--. And I think it's a good thing that I lost the gig, because I wasn't going to show up there and act all the way out. Also, it's not anyone's fault, because when I was hired, we were like, 'oh, yeah, and we'll give it to everybody.' And I was like, bet." She continued, "Then they started f---ing disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador. They rolled back f---ing civil rights. So I was, like, if I make this equal, then I'm also a piece of sh--. I can't f---ing do that." Wood called the decision a "blessing in disguise" for Ruffin, adding that she would have regretted doing what was expected of her and would have been haunted by the choice. Ruffin made similar comments on the Daily Beast Podcast last month when she called members of the Trump administration "murderers" and mocked the idea of treating them the same as Democrats. "They were like 'you need to be equal and make sure that you give it to both sides and blah blah blah.' I was like, there's no way I'm going to be freaking doing that, dude. Under no circumstances," Ruffin said. She also said they shouldn't feel like human beings during the night "because they're not." The WHCA's decision to cancel Ruffin's performance came one day after White House aide Taylor Budowich criticized the association for recruiting the anti-Trump comedian. "This year's @whca dinner will be hosted by a 2nd rate comedian who is previewing the event by calling this administration 'murderers' who want to 'feel like human beings, but they shouldn't get to feel that way, because you're not.' What kind of responsible, sensible journalist would attend something like this? More importantly, what kind of company would sponsor such a hate-filled and violence-inspiring event?" Budowich wrote on X.
