President Trump on Wednesday ripped Harvard College for hiring “Leftist dopes” Invoice de Blasio and Lori Lightfoot as lecturers — arguing the Ivy League’s employment file is proof the varsity is a “joke” and needs to be stripped of federal funds.
The commander-in-chief blasted Harvard’s determination to make use of the previous mayors of New York Metropolis and Chicago within the wake of their native authorities stints, insisting they might solely have been able to “teaching failure.”
“Everyone knows that Harvard has ‘lost its way’,” Trump raged in a fiery Reality Social submit early Wednesday.
“They employed, from New York (Invoice D) and Chicago (Lori L), at ridiculously excessive salaries/charges, two of the WORST and MOST INCOMPETENT mayors within the historical past of our Nation, to ‘teach’ municipal administration and authorities.
“These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil. 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.’”
The elite Cambridge, Mass. faculty employed de Blasio as a instructing fellow on the college’s faculties of presidency and public well being in 2022 after his Large Apple mayoral time period ended.
In the meantime, Lightfoot — who served as Chicago’s mayor from 2019 to 2023 — was employed as a instructing fellow on the Ivy League’s faculty of public well being for the 2023 fall semester.
“Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges,” Trump continued.
“Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds.”
The president’s rant got here quickly after the federal authorities revealed it was freezing greater than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard after the establishment stated it will defy the Trump administration’s calls for to curtail antisemitism on campus.
In a letter to Harvard final Friday, Trump’s admin had referred to as for reforms for scholar self-discipline insurance policies, in addition to adjustments to its admissions insurance policies.
It additionally demanded the college audit views of range on campus and cease recognizing some scholar golf equipment.
Nonetheless, Harvard President Alan Garber on Monday introduced the college wouldn’t bend to the federal government’s calls for.
“The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” Garber stated.
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
Hours later, the federal government froze billions in Harvard’s federal funding.
