Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
"It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks,” said May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist. “Instead, Harvard went on a victimhood campaign.”
So blaming the victim.
donvict went sky high on the 'demands-, looking for, and expecting, a quick and 'voluntary' settlement from harvard to avoid some of it.
instead, the wind blew his piss right back at him.
Just wanted to say that this is the first time I've seen "Donvict," and my buddy who calls him tRumpus is gonna love it.
This is what I've gathered so far.
Trump Admin: "remove your DEI programs and stop your students from protesting"
Harvard: "...no."
Trump Admin: "we'll pull your funding."
Harvard: "... Aight."
Trump Admin: "we'll also remove your immigrant students visas and dig into your old tax files to make sure you're not hiding anything like the un-American, unpatriotic, loser school you are!"
Harvard: "...k."
Trump Admin: "...!"
Harvard: "..."
Trump Admin: "... Hey actually that letter was not meant for you. Someone sent that and they weren't supposed to."
Harvard: "... Okay... You might want to address that."
Trump Admin: "Stop being so whiny and acting like a child about it. Get over it."
They said the letter was meant to be sent eventually.
Fuck whatever Trump officials might say before or after the fact. Watch what they do, that's all that matters.. they'll say whatever they need to.
This should be the rule from now on .... whatever stupidity the administration announces ... everyone ignores and just go about with business as usual
If they want to arrest or force people to do things, let them ... fight them every step of the way on everything
But also don't forget to shoot their third Reich goons as soon as you need to.
Seems like they called Trump's bluff and he folded?
harvard has money. lots of money.. and alumni. lots of smart, powerful, wealthy alumni.. he caved quicker than the front wheel assembly of a cybersuck.
Their endowment as it sits essentially allows them to operate for something like a decade without any external money. And you can guarantee they'll get a bump in alumni donations if external funding is removed like that.
It's not just Harvard though, even if they're taking the lead and getting the headlines
I believe their endowment sits somewhere around $50 billion. They could definitely float for a few years until Trump is out of office.
Everyone needs to learn from China and Harvard: Just know that you're better than the repubs and their bullshit, act like it, and don't bat an eye at their crazy demands. They'll fold like the cheap suits they wear.
that works if you have power… if you don’t have power, they’ll make an example out of you
If the Trump/Musk administration actually folded, they'd:
- Restore all funding
- Continue with additional grants for research on the basis of merit, per historical practice
- Stop trying to deport students, staff, and faculty
I don't see any of those happening yet; just trying to pass blame to lower-ranking officials.
The Narcissist's Prayer
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.by Dayna Craig
This right here. It's madness that this is what it's coming to
Bullshit. I think it's Elon, going for maximum chaos. DOGE has inserted itself into all the government IT systems, I bet he saw this go through internally and made sure it got sent to Harvard from someone's legit email address just to force things.
Archive: https://archive.ph/4sY6L
Translation: We thought we were gonna threaten them and they’d comply. They didn’t flinch, we feel silly, this was never the plan.
IF YOU MAKE ME LAUGH HARDER I WILL CUM.
(china taking trade notes...)
Obama ('s alma mater) 1, trump 0
So. Much. Winning.