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no_hypocrisy

(55,378 posts)
Mon May 5, 2025, 07:42 PM May 2025

Why Trump has it out for Harvard:

Because Harvard enrolled his SIL, Jared Kushner. (According to journalist Daniel Golden, Kushner's father made a donation of $2.5 million to the university in 1998, not long before Jared was admitted. And Jared didn't have the GPA to get into Harvard.)

And Harvard wouldn't enroll Barron while his father was POTUS. And Trump never forgets a slight, real or imagined.

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Why Trump has it out for Harvard: (Original Post) no_hypocrisy May 2025 OP
Also, Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review - Ocelot II May 2025 #1
Makes perfect sense malaise May 2025 #2
Attacking Harvard is unwise. TomSlick May 2025 #3
Is there any proof that Barron even applied to Harvard? milestogo May 2025 #4
No evidence either way. no_hypocrisy May 2025 #5
Harvard made the right decision LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #6

Ocelot II

(131,226 posts)
1. Also, Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review -
Mon May 5, 2025, 07:44 PM
May 2025

it's first Black president, meaning, of course, that he got it on account of DEI because he couldn't possibly be qualified, being Black and all.

TomSlick

(13,092 posts)
3. Attacking Harvard is unwise.
Mon May 5, 2025, 08:19 PM
May 2025

Harvard has no shortage of top-tier lawyers lining-up to represent it.

no_hypocrisy

(55,378 posts)
5. No evidence either way.
Mon May 5, 2025, 08:38 PM
May 2025
https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-evidence-barron-trump-rejected-100000292.html

But . . . . I feel pretty sure that New York University was not his father's first choice. (You don't believe that Barron made the choice of where to attend college, do you?)

It's not a prestigious institution like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Wharton, University of Virginia, Duke, Emory, etc. It's a credible academic institution. (Hey, I got my Master's at NYU.) Plus, it's in the Village. Cross the street and you're in Washington Square Park where you can easily find a doobie, performance artists who put a can of lighter fluid in their mouths and breathe out fire, or a hermaphrodite without underwear lifting her skirt. (I saw all of that at NYU.) Plus, REAL kids go to NYU, unlike the other schools where rich kids who graduated from boarding schools go. Trump would want his boy to go where the connections to business and politics are. It won't be at NYU.

So, if NYU were the second, third, fourth choice, what would have logically been the first choice.

I think my theory holds up.

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