The Daily Blast: Trump’s Angry New Attack on Harvard Is Already Blowing Up in His Face

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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After raging at Harvard earlier this month, President Donald Trump is now revoking the university’s right to receive foreign students. The administration sent an unhinged letter to Harvard making the announcement while demanding extensive information about international students, a grotesque abuse of power. The White House statement justifying this seethed with angry, McCarthyite nonsense. We think this is already backfiring: Harvard is reportedly very likely to take legal action, and the university will probably be able to stop the move. We talked to Jonathan Friedman of PEN America, who explains why Trump’s assault on Harvard is already getting universities to band together, how it’s leading to renewed public support for the university system, and why Harvard’s potential success beating this back will only stiffen institutional resistance to Trump. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.4	This This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:48.7	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. President Donald Trump has now gone full tin pot tyrant in his war on Harvard University.
1:03.4	In an extraordinary abuse of the power, Trump has now ended Harvard's ability to enroll foreign
1:09.1	students, something that will almost certainly be met
1:11.8	by a lawsuit in response. But buried in the announcement of this move was a stark warning.
1:17.7	The Department of Homeland Security explicitly said that it is designed as a shot across the bow
1:23.7	of other universities, meaning that they should think twice before angering the president
1:28.5	going forward. This substantially ups the stakes. Harvard absolutely has to fight this now,
1:35.1	and other institutions and stakeholders absolutely must rally to this cause, or the long-term
1:41.1	consequences will be dire. We're talking about all of this with one of our favorite commentators on free speech and
1:47.5	academic issues, Penn America's Jonathan Friedman.
1:50.8	Thanks for coming back on, Jonathan.
1:52.9	Thanks for having, Greg.
1:54.6	So DHS Secretary Christy Noam just sent a letter to Harvard revoking the school's student
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