Trump Tells Linda McMahon He Wants $500 Million Settlement From Harvard
“They’ve been very bad. Don’t negotiate.”
This apparently came up during the Trump cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
CNN reports:
‘Don’t negotiate, Linda’: Trump calls for $500 million Harvard settlement
President Donald Trump called for Harvard University to pay a sweeping $500 million settlement to restore its federal funding, saying the elite university has been “very bad.”
“We want nothing less than $500 million from Harvard. Don’t negotiate, Linda,” Trump said to Education Secretary Linda McMahon during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
He continued, “They’ve been very bad. Don’t negotiate.”
Harvard has been one of the Trump administration’s biggest targets, and an agreement between the two parties has so far proven elusive.
Harvard did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
The administration has argued it’s cracking down on antisemitism on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war. But Harvard, the only school to take on the White House directly in court, has become the epicenter of a broader clash over academic freedom, federal funding and campus oversight. And there’s a belief inside the White House that targeting the country’s most elite academic institutions is a winning political issue for the president.
Trump’s comments come as a federal judge is expected to soon rule in the school’s funding case against the Trump administration. Harvard had asked for an expedited final decision from US District Judge Allison Burroughs before September 3, which the school said was the first date it would be required to submit paperwork to close out grant funding.
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so maga vs the blmplo hamas
it never ends with them
To just which “them” are you referring?
Trump: “Who writes the grant checks to Harvard? I want to have a word with him.”
This is ludicrous, guys Trump insists on Harvard paying him 500 million before he pays them over 1 billion. What’s wrong with this picture? My eight-year-old learned how to be a better banker playing Monopoly.
Do not question him. He’s playing 7D chess again. Or something.
Yet again, the accompanying picture to an article about Harvard is of Brown University. Can’t your internet managers get this right for once?
You’re supposed to get the photos from ChatGPS, not CharGPT.