Trump says he wants foreign students to study in US amid feud with Harvard
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said in a White House news conference on May 30 that he wants foreign students to study in the United States despite his ongoing feud with Harvard University, which included an attempt to effectively bar the Ivy League campus from enrolling international students.
A federal judge on May 23 temporarily halted the administration's effort to bar the university from enrolling international students. The judge on May 29 said she would issue a longer-term halt on the policy.
“We want to have great students here. We just don't want students that are causing trouble. We want to have students. I want to have foreign students,” Trump told reporters at the press conference.
Trump and members of his administration allege Harvard has created a campus environment that is antisemitic, after protests broke out on campus in response to the Israel-Hamas war.
On May 25, Trump ordered Harvard to turn over the “names and countries” of every international student enrolled at the university in a post on Truth Social.
The other major front in the Trump administration's battle with Harvard has been over federal funding. Since mid-April, the White House has frozen billions of dollars in federal research grants for the school.
“I'd like to see a lot of money going into trade schools… And that's what's been wasted at places like Harvard,” Trump said.