President Donald Trump has announced his intention to pull another $1 billion in federal funding from Harvard University. This decision came after an earlier $2.3 billion funding freeze, bringing the total to over $3 billion in cancelled grants. In a post to social media, Trump savaged the woke university for parroting radical left-wing politics and failing to educate its students.
For context, this decision comes after months of tensions between higher education and the Trump administration. Harvard, among other prominent universities, was accused of tolerating anti-Semitism during pro-Palestinian protests, and leadership has resisted federal demands for oversight despite the funding cuts.
Such was shown when President Donald Trump took to social media in April 2025 to slam the woke university. He said, “Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders.’”
Concluding his rebuke, Trump declared, “Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress. Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds.”
Responding to the president’s decision, Carter Stewart, a Harvard Student and Republican, sided with Trump. He said, “In my personal opinion, it’s that Harvard kind of deserves everything that’s happened, everything that is coming to it. I think Harvard is faced with a choice, and it seems like they’re making the wrong choice, which is to double down on these crazy ideas that most Americans don’t agree with and to pay the price for that.”
Adding to his condemnation, Carter explained that Harvard should be forced to accept responsibility for their far-left values. He said, “So, I think it’s a good thing that Harvard’s being forced to put its money where its mouth is.”
Trump is not the only prominent politician to clash with Harvard. As we reported, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) slammed the Ivy League University for platforming an anti-Israeli activist who minimized the crimes of Hamas. He said, “I am truly appalled that the Kennedy School would platform an individual who celebrates and justifies Hamas’ October 7th killing of Israeli citizens—babies, children, the elderly, and the systemic, r*pe, mutilation, and torture of young girls and women.”
Building on this point, he said that the controversial speaker’s remarks were inappropriate. Fetterman wrote, “This hate has absolutely no place in any sanctioned dialogue. Decency would demand it relegated to the sewer of social media fringe. As an alumni and a member of the United States Senate, 25 years later, it’s hard to recognize my former university.”
Deflecting criticism, the school said, “Dean Douglas Elmendorf personally finds abhorrent the comments by Dalal Saeb Iriqat quoted in the press that justify and normalize the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas. An invitation to speak at the Kennedy School never implies an endorsement of a speaker’s views by the Kennedy School or members of the Kennedy School community.”
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