No, I think he's lying on purpose and that it was Stephen Miller's idea. Educating foreign students is a $50 billion/year business, but if people know that, then they don't want to expel the students.
Funding Source Available to Foreign Students?
U.S. State Government Aid ❌ No
In-State Tuition Rates ❌ Typically no
University/College Scholarships ✅ Sometimes (merit-based or institutional aid)
Federal Government Aid ❌ Generally no
Private Scholarships/Foundations ✅ Yes, but competitive
That’s why he calls his dribble platform Truth Social, it’s 1984. His cult followers associate his little tweets as ‘truths’. I’m happy the media has fought against that language and generally says ‘via a post on Truth Social’ or something like that
I don’t think he has anything to do with naming it; there were several that attempted to be the Trump/far-right social media and gave him a big payout to use it
This is written for his cult to assume the federal gov’t is footing the bill for foreign students to attend because they aren’t smart to google that foreign students are a cash cow for many universities & subsidize other students.
Doesn't he know that no foreign student will come to Harvard until the government issues them visa? The government he heads has all the information about every single foreign student in America.
My old medical director had a saying for people like him; primitive. He is incapable of higher or complex thought, and if he wasn't born with money, he'd be a used car salesman rotting in jail.
It's like his hobby is just kind of going around duct-taping metaphorical bundles of explosives to the underside of metaphorical bridges and then watching from the sidelines to see what genuine fresh hell happens next.
“other countries don’t pay for their students to attend our fancy schools!”
my guy, WE don’t pay for our students to go to state schools (unless you count the high-interest loans we offer knowing most people will still be paying them back a decade from now)
We (the US govt) doesn't pay for any students to attend college.
We do pay grants to students that qualify. And I suspect this means he's going to do away with grants (it's one of those sticking points - what's going to happen to grant dispersement when he kills the DoE).
Public schools do get money; but a lot of the kind he is talking about isn’t even that, it’s more like funding for research that is the basis for all kinds of business, technology, etc
Honestly Harvard is the idiot. They should be 50x as large and educating so many red state voters that nobody would stand for them to be attacked like this. But they hoard their prestige and wealth and have earned this spite.
Just like ‘fake news’ he brands all his dribble as ‘truths’. I’m thankful the media has fought against calling them this because it’s propaganda of the most obvious order on the level of 1984
The American people want the names and countries of all the people that paid the Trump family for their crypto and effectively bought a piece of the American government.
I don't have inside knowledge of Harvard, but while international students do pay their bills in cash†, it's not terribly uncommon to give a few of them discounts for various reasons.
† Sometimes aid is available from home country, but it is delivered to the institution as cash unlike domestic aid.
His grasp of how govt works is so limited that he doesn't understand that grants are just a budgetary mechanism to enable Harvard to administer funds that are spent on research. The money goes to salaries, lab equipment, chemicals, etc not "Mr. Harvard."
Man, it’s a total mystery who these students that the US government gives student visas to are. Wish there was a way for the government to figure that out!
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filtered through the brain of some racist piece of shit in the administration
dumbed down to some talking point used to manipulate trump in a meeting
filtered again through trump’s melted pudding of a brain
and finally tapped out as a screed
we’re a lot of Plato’s Caves deep
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/dems-release-the-names-of-trump-meme-coin-gala-attendees/2025/05/22/986c1907-a291-42a8-9a57-bc03a4e4ab74_video.html
"Harvard is offering free tuition for families that make less than $200K"
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-free-tuition-200k-degree-0b1b462a3dae2317166080cd5f772d4c
Comforting, except for the fact that we are all collectively passengers in the same dingy.
Oh dear.
Funding Source Available to Foreign Students?
U.S. State Government Aid ❌ No
In-State Tuition Rates ❌ Typically no
University/College Scholarships ✅ Sometimes (merit-based or institutional aid)
Federal Government Aid ❌ Generally no
Private Scholarships/Foundations ✅ Yes, but competitive
If anyone comes up with rebuttals, and links to citations, I'm going to need them for the inevitable upcoming arguments.
my guy, WE don’t pay for our students to go to state schools (unless you count the high-interest loans we offer knowing most people will still be paying them back a decade from now)
We do pay grants to students that qualify. And I suspect this means he's going to do away with grants (it's one of those sticking points - what's going to happen to grant dispersement when he kills the DoE).
https://bsky.app/profile/plaintanjane.bsky.social/post/3lpy6zloloc2f
*That the vast majority were Jewish didn't help.
Real question is, why is the Trump admin so inept as to now know who's entering the country?
† Sometimes aid is available from home country, but it is delivered to the institution as cash unlike domestic aid.
His grasp of how govt works is so limited that he doesn't understand that grants are just a budgetary mechanism to enable Harvard to administer funds that are spent on research. The money goes to salaries, lab equipment, chemicals, etc not "Mr. Harvard."
This is absolute nonsense. Old man yelling at clouds level of nonsense.