All right, welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show. It is Thursday. I like to call it Friday Eve. That means we're just getting the party started. Anon, Girdardos, is with us. He's back on the program. Anon, great to see you again. And I just want to jump right into this because this news on Harvard, I think, is hitting everybody like a two by four. I mean, Trump's war on his perceived enemies continues.

He campaigned on revenge and retribution. He's delivering on that promise. Today, it's academia.

New York Times reporting that the Trump administration halted Harvard's ability to enroll international

students taking aim at a crucial funding source for Harvard. And Reuters is reporting this. This is a wrinkle to it

that I think is very disturbing. It is forcing, the administration is forcing existing students,

this is according to Reuters, to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status. This is according

the Department of Homeland Security. Now we should just jump right into this.

I mean, this is what Trump is doing.

This is part of his campaign of retribution and revenge.

It's also about trying to make people afraid, you know, put fear in people's hearts.

What's your take on all of this?

Well, a few things.

I mean, first of all, you're right. This is, you know, we talk about Trump of an authoritarian.

People throw around, as I have for some time now, words like fascist.

But, you know, he's in a range of things.

And his budget is one thing.

And Doge is another thing.

When you talk about going after one specific university and revoking or threatening

to revoke Vivas for students at that one university because that university can comply with you

and doing it not for people going forward but so that people now in that university might be

thrown out or arrested or whatever. That is authoritarianism.

So if you are one of these people who's like, well, Jim's using that word too much,

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