'Harvard is a joke!' Trump melts down on university for defying him

President Donald Trump ratcheted up his attacks on Harvard University after the school defied his demands for control.

The Trump administration announced it was freezing $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard after the nation's oldest university refused to comply with the president's demanded changes to its hiring, admissions and curriculum, and he kept up his rhetorical attacks on the private educational institution.

"Everyone knows that Harvard has 'lost its way,'" Trump posted at 7:05 a.m. Wednesday morning on Truth Social. "They hired, from New York (Bill D) and Chicago (Lori L), at ridiculously high salaries/fees, two of the WORST and MOST INCOMPETENT mayors in the history of our Country, to 'teach' municipal management and government. These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil."

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Trump then attacked Claudine Gay, who resigned early last year as Harvard's first black woman president over plagiarism allegations dating back to 1993.

"Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and 'birdbrains' who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called 'future leaders,'" Trump posted. "Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn’t take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching, rather than firing her ON THE SPOT. Since then much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place."

Gay, who is now a Harvard professor of government and African and African-American studies, was grilled by a congressional committee with other university presidents in December of 2023 over their handling of antisemitism on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war.

"Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges," Trump posted. "Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"