Trump may take billions in grant money from Harvard and send it elsewhere

President Trump is at it again, taking aim at the elitist, anti-Semitic cesspool that is Harvard University. He has a bold plan to yank their federal funding and redirect it to something actually useful, and he is seriously thinking that might be trade schools. 

On Monday, Trump dropped a bombshell on Truth Social, signaling he’s had enough of Harvard’s nonsense.

“I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very anti-Semitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,” Trump declared. “What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!”

The guy loves exclamation points, doesn't he.

This comes hot on the heels of the administration’s escalating war with Harvard, the Ivy League’s poster child for woke dysfunction. 

Just days ago, the Department of Homeland Security pulled the trigger on the school's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, citing the university’s “pro-terrorist conduct from students on campus” and its cozy “collaboration” with the Chinese Communist Party. Naturally, the left-leaning academic elite are clutching their pearls and rushing to the courts to fight back.

Not one to back down, Trump doubled down in a follow-up post, oozing confidence that the feds will come out on top. “We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country,” he wrote. “Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason! The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) - But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!”

Let’s be real; Harvard’s been skating by on its name for too long, while fostering anti-American, anti-Semitic radicals and cozying up to foreign adversaries. Trump’s plan to redirect that cash to trade schools—where real Americans learn skills that actually keep the country running—is the kind of common-sense move we’ve come to expect from him. 

The left will scream, but as Trump says, the government will win, and so will America.

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Pres. Trump cuts over $400 million in grants to Columbia over anti-Semitism worries: more to follow

Useful Idiots Incognito

The Trump administration has unsheathed its blade, and on Friday it fell with a satisfying thud. More than $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University will be rescinded. The charge? A festering anti-Semitism on campus that the institution has either failed or refused to cauterize. This is no mere bureaucratic shuffle—it’s a gauntlet thrown down at the feet of an elite academy that has long cloaked itself in moral superiority while its corridors echo with the oldest hatred.

Not anymore, boys and girls.

Just four days prior, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Education (DoED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) declared a “comprehensive review” of the $5 billion in federal largesse Columbia has grown accustomed to suckling from the government's teat. The stated reason: “ongoing investigations for potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act” tied to the university’s apparent indulgence of Jew-hatred. 

That review barely had time to gather dust before the axe swung—sources, who prefer the shadows to the spotlight, confirm that $400 million from HHS and DoED is already forfeit, with more potentially to follow. Columbia’s sin, it seems, is not merely inaction but a stubborn persistence in letting antisemitism metastasize.

The campus itself offers a grim tableau. This week, anti-Israel/anti-Semitic protests—those rancid echoes of the student encampments that swept Columbia and beyond after Hamas’s slaughter of innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023—reared their head again. 

Students, drunk on self-righteous fury, stormed a library, resulting in nine arrests on Wednesday, per the New York Post. This is not dissent; it is thuggery masquerading as principle, a spectacle that would be laughable if it weren’t so malign.

Enter Linda McMahon, Trump’s Secretary of Education, who descended upon Columbia on Friday to confront its leaders. Her words earlier this week cut through the fog of academic equivocation: “Americans have watched in horror for more than a year now, as Jewish students have been assaulted and harassed on elite university campuses—repeatedly overrun by anti-Semitic students and agitators. Unlawful encampments and demonstrations have completely paralyzed day-to-day campus operations, depriving Jewish students of learning opportunities to which they are entitled.” 

She is not wrong. What we have witnessed is a betrayal of the university’s supposed mission—a descent into a playground for bigots, where Jewish students are not merely inconvenienced but hunted.

McMahon’s verdict is damning: 

“Institutions that receive federal funds have a responsibility to protect all students from discrimination. Columbia’s apparent failure to uphold their end of this basic agreement raises very serious questions about the institution’s fitness to continue doing business with the United States government.” 

This is not hyperbole; it is a statement of fact, grounded in the reality of an institution that has traded its duty for cowardice or, worse, complicity.

The move aligns with President Trump’s executive orders, which have long demanded a reckoning with anti-Semitism—particularly on campuses where progressive pieties too often provide cover for prejudice. A multi-agency Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, born of those orders, has now flexed its muscle, and Columbia is its first scalp. 

The university’s response is predictably weak: “We are reviewing the announcement from the federal agencies and pledge to work with the federal government to restore Columbia’s federal funding,” a spokesperson bleated, adding, “We take Columbia’s legal obligations seriously and understand how serious this announcement is and are committed to combatting antisemitism and ensuring the safety and well-being of our students, faculty, and staff.” One wonders if they truly grasp the gravity—or if this is just another exercise in platitudes from an institution that has lost its nerve.

This is not merely about money; it is about principle. 

For too long, universities like Columbia have dined out on their reputations while tolerating—or tacitly encouraging—a venom that would shame any society claiming to value civilization. 

The Trump administration has called their bluff. Whether Columbia can muster the balls to confront its demons, or whether it will simply whimper for its lost millions, remains to be seen. But one thing is clear: the days of consequence-free cowardice are numbered.

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