Trump fights against universities, but especially Harvard and the Ivy League

It was there for everyone that the confused relationship between President Trump and Ivy League was planned in Michigan during his rally on Tuesday evening.

“He is the top,” said the President about Dr. Mehmet OZ, the TV Promi Doctor, which he decided to monitor Medicare and Medicaid. “I mean he went to Harvard.” But then: “I shouldn't even mention that because it used to be a good thing. Today it doesn't mean much.”

It was about General Mark A. Miley, the first choice of the president as chair of the joint chiefs: “You went to Princeton,” said Trump in 2019. But then: “I am not sure, was that a good or bad thing? Did I like it or not?” The president never replied, even though he called General Milley, whom he has insulted as a “intelligent biscuit” since then.

And on judge Brett Kavanaugh: “I think he was in Yale, Mr. Trump said about his candidate of the Supreme Court in 2018.” Is that a correct statement? “It was not because Yale did not calculate the class rank.

It is true that the president's war has intensively focused on the Ivy League, the richly equipped collection of eight schools that were mostly founded in the colonial period and the 90,000 US dollars or more costs a disproportionate number of graduates from the America Leadership Class for less than 1 percent of the country in 2022.

Mr. Trump's attacks on this elite group – Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania – have become popular with his political basis. He holds back or threatens to withhold billions of dollars of federal financing from six of the eight schools because, as he says, she is citadels of anti -Semitism and liberal indoctrination. Officials of university formation recognize failures, but describe the president's approach as a dangerous threat to academic freedom.