From the NY Times: President Trump floated a new plan last Monday for the $3 billion he wants to strip from Harvard University, saying in a social media post that he was thinking about using the money to fund vocational schools. “I am considering taking THREE BILLION DOLLARS of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media platform. The announcement, among the president’s Memorial Day social media messages, did not appear to refer to any new cut in funding, but rather to a redistribution of money the administration already announced it had frozen or stripped from Harvard and its research partners. Mr. Trump gave no details about how such a plan would work...
While campaigning for office in [November] 2023, Mr. Trump posted a video* in which he spoke of “billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments” to create an entity called the American Academy. Mr. Trump referred specifically to Harvard in the video, which resembled a sales pitch. He said the proposed new academy “will gather an entire universe of the highest quality educational content, covering the full spectrum of human knowledge and skills, and make that material available to every American citizen online for free.” ...
Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/harvard-trump-trade-schools.html.
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