Trump says he wants ‘nothing less than $500m’ from Harvard

[Hume]

Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration “wants nothing less than $500m from Harvard” as a condition for restoring billions of dollars in federal funding to the Ivy League university.


“Don’t negotiate with them, they’ve been very bad,” Trump told his education secretary, Linda McMahon, in a cabinet meeting.

Trump says he wants ‘nothing less than $500m’ from Harvard as feud continues

‘Don’t negotiate with them, they’ve been very bad,’ Trump tells education secretary in cabinet meeting

www.theguardian.com

This is fascism.

 

[Hume]

In April, Harvard became the first – and so far only – university to sue the Trump administration over the funding cuts. It sued again the following month over the government’s efforts to block the school from enrolling international students.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/23/us-college-campuses-trump-funding-protests
The university has argued that the administration unlawfully slashed $2.6bn in research funding from the university in retaliation for the school’s refusal to comply with a series of demands laid out in an 11 April letter from a federal antisemitism task force. Those demands related to campus protests, academic policies and admissions practices.

 

[Nomad]

So where would that $500 million end up, aside from trump's pocket?

Who would Harvard pay it to?

Sounds like another trump scam.

 

[anonymoose]

Harvard has to be the most overrated university in the world.