WASHINGTON — President Trump urged Wednesday that Harvard halve its variety of worldwide college students to make the celebrated college “great again” — after halting billions in federal grants and making an attempt to throttle the Ivy League establishment’s capacity to enroll foreigners.
“I think they should have a cap of maybe around 15%, not 31%. We have people who want to go to Harvard and other schools, [but] they can’t get in because we have foreign students there,” Trump instructed reporters within the Oval Workplace.
The administration final month froze $2.2 billion in federal funding to the elite college and final week paused its capacity to enroll worldwide college students — after school leaders rebuffed administration calls for to curtail antisemitic incidents and supply lists of overseas college students for federal overview.
“Harvard is treating our country with great disrespect,” Trump added. “I want Harvard to be great again.”
The president additionally floated rerouting federal funds to commerce faculties and away from the Cambridge establishment, which says 27.2% of its scholar physique within the 2024-2025 tutorial 12 months was non-American.
“They’re taking $5 billion and I’d rather see that money go to trade schools. And by the way, they’re totally antisemitic at Harvard, as you know, and some other colleges too, in all fairness to them, and it’s been exposed, very exposed,” Trump mentioned.
“Every time they fight, they lose another $250 million. Yesterday we found another $100 million. And they have, you know, they have a fund, an endowment, $52 billion, all right? They got a lot of that from the United States. And I think it’s ridiculous.”
Trump added: “Everyone’s coming up to me saying, ‘We love the idea of trade schools, with that kind of money … you can have the best trade schools anywhere in the world.”
