Donald Trump escalated his campaign against Harvard University on Monday, threatening to take away $3bn in grants and lashing out at some of its foreign students as “radicalized lunatics”.
Trump said he would consider removing the money from Harvard and giving it to trade schools in the US. “What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
In a separate post he railed against the university’s international students, saying he was waiting on Harvard to supply “foreign student lists” so that the US government could determine “how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country”.