Trump says he wants 'names and countries' of all international students at Harvard

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

May 25, 2025, 2:44 pm. ET


Donald Trump said he wants the "names and countries" of every international student enrolled at Harvard University, another step in the president's crackdown on the Ivy League school. He made the request in a Truth Social post May 25, days after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's effort to bar the university from enrolling anyone in the United States on a student visa.

"We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming," Trump wrote. "We want those names and countries." Trump didn't immediately say how the federal government would use that information, or which part of his administration would manage such lists. USA TODAY has reached out to the White House for more information.

Trump's post comes after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sent a letter to Harvard leaders saying the university's participation in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program would be terminated "effective immediately." That's a critical prerequisite for colleges and universities to enroll international students. All international students would need to transfer to another university to stay in the United States, she said.

Harvard then sued the administration, calling the move a "blatant violation" of the First Amendment's protections, as well as the 14th Amendment's guarantees of due process and other legal rights. Judge Allison Burroughs, appointed by former President Barack Obama, on May 23 sided with the school in a temporary order. She wrote in her decision that the policy would bring "immediate and irreparable injury" to Harvard's campus.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/25/trump-harvard-international-student-names/83852222007/

[dem4decades]

1. Doesn't the government actually have that information?

[Irish_Dem]

2. The US govt has their visa information.

So yes I would think they have all the information already.

So they are just harassing Harvard.

[dem4decades]

6. Or maybe Trump fired everyone that's capable of doing their job.

And all the ass kissers are left.

[William Seger]

19. Yep, it was just off-the-cuff bullying to feed his power psychosis

It probably occurred to him about two seconds before he started typing.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. That was my first thought too - it's on the Visas they were issued

But he's obviously either bored or someone pissed him off so he is rage-tweeting.

[TomSlick]

11. Of course it does.

[PSPS]

16. Yes, but its posting on truth social is a thinly-veiled call to violence by the maga malitia

[mitch96]

25. He is playing to his base on this one meThinks..nt

[Deuxcents]

3. The bully has to bully and it's Harvard's turn.

[Retrograde]

9. He talks like it's his money

that went into the grants to Harvard (and other schools)

[Deuxcents]

12. I know! Everything is about money, or the deal that will benefit him.

He and his trinkets n money will soon be departed..none of us gets out of here alive, as the saying goes.

[Dave Bowman]

4. What a thin skinned imbecile. Go to hell Dingdongfuhrer.

[ancianita]

7. Or else what. Nothing. He's got a State Dept for that.

More drug addled bullying for headlines. Harvard doesn't have to turn over a damn thing.

[sheshe2]

8. He huffs and he puffs trying to knock Harvard down.

[sop]

10. Oh no...MAGA will boycott Harvard...

[wolfie001]

17. Reminds me of this blast from the past RW "scholar"

[SouthBayDem]

13. Straight out of Nixon's playbook

In many cases, Nixon's tirades were touched off by news leaks and political setbacks, such as the occasion at the beginning of July 1971 when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released figures showing that unemployment was on the upswing. Concerned that news of the joblessness was hurting him in the polls, Nixon demanded the ouster of the director of the bureau, Julius Shiskin, and asked his hatchet man, Charles Colson, to investigate the ethnic background of officials in the agency.

"They are all Jews?" Nixon exclaimed when Colson listed the names.

"Every one of them," Colson replied. "Well, with a couple of exceptions. . . . You just have to go down the goddamn list and you know they are out to kill us."

From an October 6, 1999, article in The Washington Post, "New Tapes Reveal Depth of Nixon's Anti-Semitism".

[ananda]

14. Makin a list and checkin it twice...

gonna find out if they're naughty or nice...

Santa Ice is comin to town.

[Jack Valentino]

15. I want Trump to take a long walk on a short pier.

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. This will go over like a lead balloon in Belgium.

One of those students is Princess Elisabeth, the Duches of Brabant, and heir to the Belgian throne. She's 23 years old.

[Rhiannon12866]

20. Good point!!!

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[OldBaldy1701E]

21. Okay, I want the names and locations of those who have been propping you up, Mr. President.

No?

Then, go pound sand.

[SADAR]

22. Why

is he doing this on TS? Most presidents hold press conferences (i know)

[barbtries]

23. I want the names

of every person ICE has kidnapped and is imprisoning whether in the US or abroad right now.

I want the names and addresses of the terrorists committing these Crimes Against Humanity.

i want this and i want that.

i want to be alive when he dies.

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[BumRushDaShow]

24. You just gotta have

(and he's still going and was still kicking out babies )

[truthisfreedom]

26. And we want the names and countries

And amounts of all of your meme coin buyers, Mr. President.

[mdbl]

27. Why? So he can visit the girl's dorms?