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Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Claims He Doesn't Want To Hurt Harvard. His Actions Show Otherwise.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed the 'last thing' he wants to do is hurt Harvard, while his administration is still relentlessly hammering the elite university and as he mounted a new demand for the school to cap its admission of international students. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump conceded he wasn't sure how his battle with the Ivy League school would end. 'Harvard is treating our country with great disrespect, and all they're doing is getting in deeper and deeper and deeper. They've got to behave themselves,' Trump said. 'I'm looking out for the country and for Harvard. I want Harvard to do well. I want Harvard to be great again.' Trump suggested Harvard should swiftly bend to his will, claiming that he bears no responsibility for the tough situation the country's oldest university is facing. 'The last thing I want to do is hurt them. They're hurting themselves,' Trump said of Harvard. Trump suggested that Harvard should have followed the example of Columbia University, which was originally in the 'hot seat' but brokered a deal with his administration after he threatened major federal funding cuts. 'Harvard wants to fight. They want to show how smart they are, and they're getting their ass kicked,' Trump said. Trump is exerting a maximum pressure strategy on Harvard. The State Department is now reviewing all the visas issued for people at the university, not just students, according to multiple newsreports. Trump on Wednesday also floated restricting the number of international students Harvard can enroll. 'I think they should have a cap of maybe around 15%,' he said. 'We have people [who] want to go to Harvard and other schools; they can't get in because we have foreign students there.' International students represent about a fourth of Harvard's student body and also amount to a big source of income for the school. His latest suggestion comes on the heels of his administration's unsuccessful effort to revoke the school's ability to enroll international students. The crackdown on foreign students extends beyond Harvard. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday said the administration is looking to 'aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students,' a day after he announced that U.S. embassies would for now stop scheduling new visa appointments for international students. Meanwhile, Trump has also moved to cut billions of dollars in federal funding and grants for the school. A constitutional law professor at Harvard said Trump has gone too far. 'He thinks he's got the unilateral power that not even King George III had to pick those against whom he will exact retribution,' Laurence Tribe told CNN. In a recent interview with NPR's 'Morning Edition,' Harvard President Alan Garber added that he found Trump's attacks 'perplexing,' saying the action he's taking against the school will hurt everyday Americans instead of addressing his supposed goal of fighting antisemitism on campus. Harvard's Laurence Tribe Draws Brutal Parallel Between Trump And A Ruthless Royal Tyrant 'Used Like Pawns': International Harvard Students Call Out Trump's Tactics Trump Just Launched A New Threat Against Harvard Amid Escalating Legal Fight Harvard President Calls Trump's Intense Attacks On The School 'Perplexing'
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Harvard's Laurence Tribe Draws Brutal Parallel Between Trump And A Ruthless Royal Tyrant
Harvard constitutional law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe delivered a damning assessment of Donald Trump's recent attacks on his university, likening the president's actions to those of a historical, brutal monarch. In an interview with CNN's Kate Bolduan, Tribe was asked how far he believes the Trump administration has gone 'beyond the bounds of the law' with his bids to ban international students from the university, freeze its grants and redirect its federal funds. 'I compare it to King Henry VIII, King Edward II,' Tribe said. 'Not even King George III, against whom we fought a revolution, had this kind of power, because he needed Parliament. Trump thinks he doesn't even need Congress.' Tribe reminded viewers that it's 'Congress that has the power of the purse' and that Trump 'can't just move billions of bucks from one place to another all by himself.' He also warned of the wider fallout of Trump's targeting of Harvard. 'He's hurting the country,' Tribe said. 'It's not Harvard's interest in these wonderful foreign students that's all at stake. They come here, they meet others, they discover things. Some of them end up winning Nobel prizes. They are performing a great public service. It's a private university but it's providing a public education.' Watch here: Trump 'Clearly' Wants To Avoid 1 Thing With Elon Musk, Says Maggie Haberman Kayleigh McEnany Makes Chilling Demand For '60 Minutes' Reporter Over Anti-Trump Speech Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello Unleashes Anti-Trump Fury With Flip Of His Guitar
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Harvard's Laurence Tribe Delivers Unflinching Message To Foreign Students In Trump Crosshairs
Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe on Monday condemned Donald Trump's move to strip 7,000 foreign students of their places at the Ivy League school, calling it 'obviously unhinged' and legally baseless. Appearing on MSNBC's 'The Last Word' with Lawrence O'Donnell, Tribe said the president has 'no idea what he is talking about' and is simply 'slinging around, frankly, B.S.' 'This is a president who hates intellect, who despises the symbol of excellence in the world of higher education around the world,' Tribe added. In a direct message to the affected students, Tribe urged them not to be intimidated by Trump's threats. 'Don't be scared,' he said. 'This guy is a paper tiger. He's a tinhorn tyrant.' Tribe highlighted Trump's recent legal track record. 'In the month of May alone, there were all kinds of cases across the country — judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats — involving Donald Trump and his megalomaniac attacks on our institutions. And you know what his record was? He lost over 95% of them.' Watch Tribe's full analysis here: New York Post Warns Trump How He's Burning Out Even His Biggest Fans Biden Speaks Publicly For First Time Since Cancer Announcement Conservative Legal Icon's Chilling Trump Admission: 'I Don't Know Where This Ends...'
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'The Constitution is explicit': Tribe says Trump's birthright citizenship ban would create 'chaos'
Harvard Constitutional Law professor Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss Donald Trump's latest case before the Supreme Court over federal judges' power over Donald Trump's birthright citizenship and why Professor Tribe says we need to take the Constitution more seriously.
