Trump vs Universities

[YDB95]

I'm surprised any Trump would want to go to Harvard. Their worldview isn't exactly popular there.

 

[dmallord]

It was about prestige, not looking for being popular. That Barron didn't get in is a personal affront. Enough one would suppose to stick in the felon's craw and fuel his anger in addition to attacking the university for other matters.

So, the boy is in a NY school now. Studying finance maybe like his dad did at Penn.

 

[Bray123]

Nah. I don’t hate Harvard. Hear good things about their medical school. Law school is probably decent. Business school not so great. Actually terrible. Politics, government and social sciences are a joke.

Harvard business school can't be any good, they don't recommend that CEOs are appointed from a series of knock-out competitions whereby contestants try to complete irrelevant & silly challenges and then whine about how it was someone else's fault.

 

[Bray123]

It was about prestige, not looking for being popular. That Barron didn't get in is a personal affront. Enough one would suppose to stick in the felon's craw and fuel his anger in addition to attacking the university for other matters.

So, the boy is in a NY school now. Studying finance maybe like his dad did at Penn.

Even worse, Malia Obama was accepted at Harvard and graduated from there in 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama#Malia_and_Sasha_Obama

 

[dmallord]

Even worse, Malia Obama was accepted at Harvard and graduated from there in 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama#Malia_and_Sasha_Obama

From your article:

"Before his inauguration, President Obama published an open letter to his daughters in Parade magazine, describing what he wants for them and every child in America: "to grow up in a world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your reach, and to grow into compassionate, committed women who will help build that world".[25]"

Seems she did and had some qualifications for entry into Harvard that Barron did not.

Did you want to make another point?

 

[Bray123]

From your article:

"Before his inauguration, President Obama published an open letter to his daughters in Parade magazine, describing what he wants for them and every child in America: "to grow up in a world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your reach, and to grow into compassionate, committed women who will help build that world".[25]"

Seems she did and had some qualifications for entry into Harvard that Barron did not.

Did you want to make another point?

Well, I could point out that Jared's father paid Harvard $2.5m to let him through the door. Trump is clearly too cheap to stump up the readies; he takes bribes, he doesn't expect to give them.

 

[ll74]

Little-known fact about Trump's beef with Harvard: his son was rejected! Check in at about 5:50 in the video. The whole piece is also good.

Barron Trump

I heard he was freebasing $TRMP coin

 

[coati]

Can you imagine how screwed up it would be to have a revengeful Orange Pig as your father? I mean, you either have to become a pig yourself, like Eric and Don Jr, or you have to become a family outcast.

 

[MajorRewrite]

I pay taxes. I don’t want to pay them anymore.

Your inane comment is irrelevant to the discussion.

Why do you support the federal government’s attempt to seize control of a private university? No real conservative would support that. Are you ready to admit you’re an authoritarian?

 

[73Seahawks]

Your inane comment is irrelevant to the discussion.

Why do you support the federal government’s attempt to seize control of a private university? No real conservative would support that. Are you ready to admit you’re an authoritarian?

Percentage odds that the Trump administration sets their sights targeting all of the HBCU's next?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Harvard has about $53 billion in endowments. Qater, UAE can chip in if they’d like.

Israel's de facto would-be overseer of Harvard, billionaire hedge fund manager. ultra-right Jew Bill Ackman, would likely disagree with your conjecture.

He has demanded Israeli oversight of curriculum, hiring and tenure of faculty, and "ethnic cleansing" of certain minorities at Harvard....in the name of "making Harvard a safe space for Jews".

Next up: a war on Christmas decorations.

 

[Lazaran]

Israel's de facto would-be overseer of Harvard, billionaire hedge fund manager. ultra-right Jew Bill Ackman, would likely disagree with your conjecture.

He has demanded Israeli oversight of curriculum, hiring and tenure of faculty, and "ethnic cleansing" of certain minorities at Harvard....in the name of "making Harvard a safe space for Jews".

Next up: a war on Christmas decorations.

Meh, “Friends of Palestine” are giving Ackman a run for his money when it comes to bribing DonOld, etc, to their side on any number of issues.



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Meh, “Friends of Palestine” are giving Ackman a run for his money when it comes to bribing DonOld, etc, to their side on any number of issues.



We. Told. Them. So.

I disagree. Trump and Netanyahu have (perhaps I should say, "had") a symbiotic relationship.

Netanyahu helped sabotage President Joe Biden's administration at every opportunity in 2024, and a grateful Trump returned the favor by enacting sweeping new conditions to First Amendment free speech by executive order upon assuming the throne basically equating "hurting Jewish fee-fees" as prima facie "evidence" of "hate crimes" and "Antisemitism 2.0"

I think Trump underestimated how deeply unpopular these new Israeli-dictated conditions would be (all he wanted to do was harass Arabs he deemed "undesirable") and when the cost seemed to outweigh the political benefit, Trump jettisoned Netanyahu's support as easily as he might jettison yesterday's Depend adult diaper.

I will grant you that there is a certain element of MAGA resentful of any "Jewish" input on the long road to Christian Nationalism. MAGA seems split between evangelicals who want to encourage the End Times by encouraging Israel overreach and the resulting Armageddon, but an equal number would rather see a White-only Christian-only theocracy in America, with America actin' as the "turrible swift Sword of the Christian GOD" against the infidels.

 

[Lazaran]

I disagree. Trump and Netanyahu have (perhaps I should say, "had") a symbiotic relationship.

Netanyahu helped sabotage President Joe Biden's administration at every opportunity in 2024, and a grateful Trump returned the favor by enacting sweeping new conditions to First Amendment free speech by executive order upon assuming the throne basically equating "hurting Jewish fee-fees" as prima facie "evidence" of "hate crimes" and "Antisemitism 2.0"

I think Trump underestimated how deeply unpopular these new Israeli-dictated conditions would be (all he wanted to do was harass Arabs he deemed "undesirable") and when the cost seemed to outweigh the political benefit, Trump jettisoned Netanyahu's support as easily as he might jettison yesterday's Depend adult diaper.

I will grant you that there is a certain element of MAGA resentful of any "Jewish" input on the long road to Christian Nationalism. MAGA seems split between evangelicals who want to encourage the End Times by encouraging Israel overreach and the resulting Armageddon, but an equal number would rather see a White-only Christian-only theocracy in America, with America actin' as the "turrible swift Sword of the Christian GOD" against the infidels.

Gulf States’ oil money (bribes) have to factor in somewhere / somehow…



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[DeluxAuto]

You have no idea but it’s obvious you didn’t make it past 5th grade.

DerpyDumbFucks.

 

[YDB95]

Harvard business school can't be any good, they don't recommend that CEOs are appointed from a series of knock-out competitions whereby contestants try to complete irrelevant & silly challenges and then whine about how it was someone else's fault.

To be fair, we now know it usually was someone else's fault, namely Trump's. He usually decided in advance who the next loser would be, and the producers would have to move heaven and earth to make that person look bad no matter what actually happened.

 

[jomar]

To be fair, we now know it usually was someone else's fault, namely Trump's. He usually decided in advance who the next loser would be, and the producers would have to move heaven and earth to make that person look bad no matter what actually happened.

Interesting, did not know that but it makes perfect sense. They probably didn’t suck up enough or somehow didn’t demonstrate sufficient loyalty and admiration.

 

[YDB95]

Interesting, did not know that but it makes perfect sense. They probably didn’t suck up enough or somehow didn’t demonstrate sufficient loyalty and admiration.

It also explains why the women won the first several rounds, strictly by using their sex appeal, but ultimately he just had to have a male winner.

 

[jomar]

It also explains why the women won the first several rounds, strictly by using their sex appeal, but ultimately he just had to have a male winner.

Ha, makes one wonder about the root of trump’s affection for that nutter Omarosa.

 

[MajorRewrite]

The Trump administration is now lashing out at the University of California system, under the pretense of investigating antisemitism.

State universities will be more vulnerable to the attacks than private universities.

MAGA sheep applaud because anti-intellectualism is one of the foundations of their beliefs.

 

[RobDownSouth]

This has nothing to do with Trump, but Harvard University today revoked the tenure of a full professor at their business school, for signing off on fraudulent research submitted under her aegis. The professor, Francesa Gino, was a professor of business ethics and behavioral science (and was roundly noted for the irony back when first uncovered in 2021) and the paper she authored (since retracted) had to do with a finding that people are much more likely to tell the truth if they sign a blank form first. The paper was published in 2012. She had been awarded tenure in 2014.

The professor happened to be a woman, so we should expect a standalone thread about this subject from the Political Board's professor of misogyny, Rightguide (nee Vetteman), as part of his weekly "women in trouble" weekly shitposting.

 

[MajorRewrite]

The Trump Administration’s attack on universities broadens

The Clown Show is too dumb to realize that foreign students studying in the US are a type of foreign trade, just like tourists. They benefit the US economy.

Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews

A Tuesday state department cable instructs consular sections to pause adding “any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued” within days.

“The department is conducting a review of existing operations and processes for screening and vetting of student and exchange visitor visa applicants,” the cable reads. Officials plan to issue guidance on “expanded social media vetting for all such applicants”.

The “thought police” in action! Right wing conspiracy lunatics will be the only foreign students approved for visas.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Harvard can’t win this battle no matter what happens in court. They’ve already lost. They need a way of surrendering with some semblance of dignity and figuring out how to operate with little to no federal money. If they opt to continue fighting for the hearts and minds of the American people, Trump will welcome that fight all day long. It’s a political winner for the president.

 

[ll74]

Harvard can’t win this battle no matter what happens in court. They’ve already lost. They need a way of surrendering with some semblance of dignity and figuring out how to operate with little to no federal money. If they opt to continue fighting for the hearts and minds of the American people, Trump will welcome that fight all day long. It’s a political winner for the president.

They'll win in court.

 

[Bray123]

Trump will be gone by the end of the decade. He's a mere here today - gone tomorrow mobster appealing to the White Supremacist electorate.

Harvard will still be here at the end of the century.