Donald Trump has been battling Harvard University over their failure to clamp down on antisemitism on their campus and their excessive focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, so naturally leftists had to come up with a sinister conspiracy theory to explain his actions. It couldn’t just be that he doesn’t believe the federal government should be supplying massive grants to an institution that allows hate to flourish and which wants to discriminate against folks based on the color of their skin, could it?

Nah. His son Barron applied to Harvard and didn’t get in, goes their latest, so the president wants revenge. Accounts like this one, bravely named “Anonymous,” are spewing this rumor all over the internet:

Trump is retaliating against Harvard for rejecting his adult son Barron Trump & for allowing students to practice their free speech to criticize Israel's genocide in Gaza, the regime tried to punish the university by eliminating its ability to enroll international students. Is… pic.twitter.com/vktmWkdUYp

— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) May 22, 2025

It’s a great narrative, if you’re a Democrat, but it has one problem: it’s a sack of lies, according to First Lady Melania Trump.

First lady Melania Trump shot down a viral conspiracy theory Tuesday that her son Barron applied to Harvard University and was rejected, with a spokesman calling the assertion “completely false.”

“Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false,” said Nicholas Clemens, the first lady’s communications director.

The 19-year-old’s admissions status had been the subject of furious speculation on social media amid his father’s repeated attacks — and cancellation of grants and other federal funds — on the Ivy League institution.

President Trump on Tuesday pulled another $100 million from Harvard, adding to more than $3 billion in grant and contract terminations since taking office.

More: Harvard Sacks 'Honesty' Professor, for Being Dishonest

Trump Floats Taking $3B in Harvard Funding and Sending It to an Entirely Different Type of School

Trump has taken a strong stand against the Cambridge, Massachusetts university, yanking grants, pulling the visas of all its international students (6,800 students from 100 countries, or 27.5 percent of their student body), and threatening to send billions normally allocated to the institution to trade schools instead.

He has not, however, mentioned Barron when talking about the situation, and in fact his son just completed his first year at NYU, another prestigious establishment, and he’s angling for a business degree from their Stern School. I think he’ll be just fine.

But leave it to the Democrats to go low. Here’s the pugilistic but not especially bright junior senator from Rhode Island:

Can’t help but wonder how many Trumps got rejected by Harvard.https://t.co/HmUtLpnTpF

— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) April 17, 2025

I think the president has more important things to worry about than what schools his kids did or didn’t get into. They all went to (or are still attending, in the case of Barron) good institutions, and they’re all successful.

Hopefully Melania put a stake in the heart of this latest leftist idiocy.

The nation’s elite academic institutions have lost the plot and become full-on indoctrination centers. 

Trump is fighting back.

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