Trump to severe all remaining ties with Harvard.. number one university in the world

[Demovictory9]

Crazy!!!



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/harvard-trump-federal-funds.html

Trump Intends to Cancel All Federal Funds Directed at Harvard
A letter to federal agencies will instruct them to end contracts, totaling about $100 million. It is meant to sever the government’s remaining ties with Harvard


The Trump administration is set to cancel the federal government’s remaining federal contracts with Harvard University — worth an estimated $100 million, according to a letter that is being sent to federal agencies on Tuesday. The letter also instructs agencies to “find alternative vendors” for future services.

The additional planned cuts, outlined in a draft of the letter obtained by The New York Times, represented what an administration official called a complete severance of the government’s longstanding business relationship with Harvard.

The letter is the latest example of the Trump administration’s determination to bring Harvard — arguably the country’s most elite and culturally dominant university — to its knees, by undermining its financial health and global influence. Since last month, the administration has frozen about $3.2 billion in grants and contracts with Harvard. And it has tried to halt the university’s ability to enroll international students.

[sop]

1. Nothing personal, of course.

[Karch]

17. Willing to bet

Harvard rejected Barron's application, and they are having to pay.

[Rebl2]

19. Rejected

his son and him

[Bookreadingliberal53]

23. Not just that-they accepted Malia Obama and rejected Barron nt

[DiverDave]

18. Is it true his NOT son

Got rejected?
Oh, and if the tall kid is his son, I'll apologize.

[speak easy]

24. What do you think. Spitting image?

He did not get those looks from Melania.

[hedda_foil]

29. That's a very old picture of him. He's 6'8" and in college.

[speak easy]

32. So? He's still Krasnov's boy,

not his "NOT son".

[ananda]

31. Didn't a lot of great Democrats go there?

While the worst Republicans went to Yale...

Except for Trump, who went to BYU and
paid people to take his exams.

(Backyard University, aka Sandbox U)

[walkingman]

3. Don't fall for the BS - the douchebag is corrupt at the core and a habitual liar.

[Demovictory9]

6. Agreed. He will give it to religious nuttery schools or use it for tax cuts

[Rebl2]

21. He said

he was going to give it to tech or trade schools supposedly. I don’t think he will.

[LisaM]

25. I bet he couldn't name one single tech or trade school if you asked him.

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I wish someone would.

I don't know if Barron wanted to go to Harvard. I don't care, either. I know that this is feeding some petty grievance Trump has (maybe he himself couldn't get in). Does it really matter what the grievance is? We know it's something.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. He'll start his own trade school.

[LisaM]

40. Grifter Tech?

It's the only trade he knows.

[malaise]

8. and importantly

the emperor of retribution.

[WSHazel]

4. What?

Do you really support a dictator taking over universities and forcing compliance with Party theory and messaging? The ripple effects on all parts of our society would be devastating, and will certainly accelerate the brain drain to Europe and Asia that is already underway.

[Demovictory9]

5. Trade schools dont conduct research.

[snowybirdie]

9. Fraud will run rampant

"Trade schools" are all over the place. Some run by unions, some by cities some by states. Some are for profit, some are tax supported. And what would they be used for?Harvard funds medical and technical research. Dumping money Willy nilly at random programs is a recipe for waste and fraud.

[iemanja]

10. He wants to give RESEARCH grants to trade schools

who don't have the expertise or facilities to do that research. It's a fucking insane idea. Do you want plumbers and electricians in charge of researching cures for cancer?

[yardwork]

11. It's a bad idea to take all federal research funding away.

All the things we use in our daily lives - including the computer or phone you use to access DU - are the result of federal partnerships with research universities like Harvard.

[BoRaGard]

7. This is the Age of The Deliberately Ignorant

They do not want to know.

Facts. Truth. EXperience. Repubes do not know, and want to prevent YOU from knowing.

[johnnyfins]

12. No. There has been a push toward trade

schools, by the right, for years now. They want a LESS educated society of slaves.

[valleyrogue]

37. They benefit men that's why.

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Women are outpacing men in colleges and universities, and Trump’s policies are a retribution against the increase presence of women in post secondary education.

[Brenda]

43. Exactly.

But don't ya know that women achieving degrees and getting high paying jobs are just so hostile. And everyone knows they're stealing those degrees and jobs from men.

[newdeal2]

13. As long as Harvard remains strong

They will have their students’ backing and hopefully alumni and corporations will step up. Maybe some rich foreigners can donate a building or two

[OLDMDDEM]

14. He is stupid to realize what he is doing. This will come back to haunt him.

[ecstatic]

15. How can any business or university support tRump at this point?

Do they still need for this shit to happen to them personally to wake the fuck up? I figured that this was why DeSantis' campaign didn't go anywhere, and now tRump is doing the same thing. They're all like this.

[DFW]

16. While I have no love for Harvard

(And my grandfather, my father and my brother are graduates!)

I fervently hope that Harvard researchers make some miracle medical breakthrough on curing some awful ailment that ends up striking most of the Trump family and their administration, and then makes sure that treatment gets withheld from them.

Ugh! Yes, it HAS come to that! Congratulations, Melania, I finally do NOT care.

[Kid Berwyn]

30. From reading you for decades now...

...I know when you are joking.

Don't change, DFW. No matter what dimdonnie does to make us hate him and all he stands for -- you are a good man.

Trump and his family are destined for the same garbage mound of history under which all they strive for lies.

[DFW]

39. Only half

The three generations of my family DID graduate from Harvard. That was for real.

And I was only partially playing evil onion. Even I have my limits. My sister once had a minimally paying gig playing a cartoon character for some ghetto kids from NJ. Surprise cameo guest of honor was a pre-candidate Donald Trump. He flew in to the fairgrounds on a helicopter. He told the ghetto kids, who probably had no idea who he was, other than that he was rich, “you work hard, and some day, you’ll be rich and have your own helicopter like me.” Whereupon, he turned around, got back into his helicopter, and flew off. He could have created a lot less ill will by never showing up at all.

[Renew Deal]

20. Harvard will be here long after Trump is gone

[spanone]

22. He's one sick-fuck.

[pfitz59]

26. Harvard on SCrOTUS

22 justices attended Harvard Law. 4 are currently on the court. How will they rule? Will they 'recuse' themselves? Harvard will sue and it will go to the Supremes.

[vapor2]

27. ANY reporter needs to ask him why not YALE??

There is a reason he doesn't go after Yale

[RobinA]

36. To Trump

Harvard is THE number one university in the US. Place where he imagines all the smartest people are. Hence his white hot hate. Same with Taylor Swift, Springsteen, and all his other fave targets that have nothing to do with Trump. Nothing he hates more than anybody or any thing that is better and/or more liked than he is.

[Kid Berwyn]

28. So, where's the opposition to this round of treason?

Asking for a longtime friend who no longer returns my calls.

Anyway...Such power! So manly!

[Scrivener7]

33. That's not his decision to make.

[Ping Tung]

34. Trump was quoted as saying NYAH! NYAH! ans "So there, Harvard!

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[Blue Owl]

35. A win for Harvard; another loss for the Florida fat fuck

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. trump holds a grudge

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. This explains a great deal