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In reply to the discussion: rump's war on Harvard ignited after Barron didn't get in [View all]Attilatheblond
(8,123 posts)32. Don't most colleges look at a student's extra curiculars too? Barron doesn't strike me as having much interest in life.
He seems very uncomfortable anywhere but beside his mother.
Also, another pisser for Trump is that Malia Obama went to Harvard. Oh, and our dear Pete Buttigieg went to Harvard too, before he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
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Trump probably felt Barron was passed over for a DEI applicant or foreign student visa holder.
sop
May 2025
#1
Yes Trump wants NO foreign students in US universities. Only American white males.
Irish_Dem
May 2025
#4
Why didn't Donnie BUY Barron a $2M Harvard entrance like Jared's dad did? nt
allegorical oracle
May 2025
#7
Yes his college admissions standardized testing must have been a train wreck.
Irish_Dem
May 2025
#25
If Harvard and other Ivy League schools are so liberal, why would IT want his son to go there?
LoisB
May 2025
#5
I find this unlikely...Melania essentially moved back to New York to coddle Barron at NYU
Prairie Gates
May 2025
#8
I've seen a number of "IS THIS TRUE" articles and they all waffle on whether it's true.
Miles Archer
May 2025
#10
Don't most colleges look at a student's extra curiculars too? Barron doesn't strike me as having much interest in life.
Attilatheblond
May 2025
#32
If the cheap SOB built them a new building on campus, they might let him in--maybe!
usaf-vet
May 2025
#20
LMAO. What a fucking joke. This MIGHT just be even more pathetic than going after them because of "DEI" and "wokism."
Karasu
May 2025
#22
Yep. His vendetta against Harvard likely has personal roots. It's how he works
Attilatheblond
May 2025
#35