As the White House continues to escalate its crusade against the nation’s higher education institutions, President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he doesn’t know how the administration’s monthslong confrontation with Harvard will come to an end.
“I don’t know,” Trump said. “Harvard has got to behave themselves. Harvard is treating our country with great disrespect. And all they’re doing is getting deeper and deeper and deeper. They’ve got to behave themselves.”
Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, has been in the administration’s crosshairs since the early days of the Trump administration over its handling of pro-Palestine protests and Trump’s broader pushback of “woke” college campuses. While Harvard has fought back and often won in court, the White House has shown no signs of backing down.