President Trump is on a mission to make Harvard University great again, even if it has to get its “ass kicked” in the process.

“They’ve got to behave themselves, you know. I’m looking out for the country and for Harvard. I want Harvard to do well. I want Harvard to be great again, probably, because how could it be great? How could it great?” Trump said in a press conference on Wednesday.

The Trump administration has been at war with the once prestigious college over racial discrimination and a “deeply troubling pattern” of violent anti-Semitic student protests, and recently announced it will be cutting off any remaining federal grants.

Trump continued to lay into the Ivy League school with an accusation that is anything but Ivy League.

“When you have Harvard announced two weeks ago that they are going to teach remedial mathematics, remedial, meaning they’re going to teach low-grade mathematics, like two plus two is four. How did these people get into Harvard if they can’t do basic mathematics? How did they do it? I mean, people with 1,600 on their boards don’t get in, and they’re letting people in, and they are bragging about how they’re teaching them basic mathematics,” Trump continued.

“Where do these people come from? So, we have to look at the list, and Harvard has to understand the last thing I want to do is hurt them. They’re hurting themselves. They’re fighting. You know, Colombia has been really — they were very, very bad what they’ve done. They’re very anti-Semitic and lots of other things.”

Trump then blasted the school for putting up a fight, and getting “their asses kicked.”

“But they’re working with us on finding a solution, and, you know, they’re taken off that hot seat. But Harvard wants to fight. They want to show how smart they are, and they’re getting their ass kicked. Thank you very much, everybody.”

.@POTUS: “Harvard is treating our country with great disrespect and all they’re doing is getting in deeper… I want Harvard to be great again… How can it be great when you have Harvard announce two weeks ago that they’re going to teach remedial mathematics?… How did these… pic.twitter.com/gZCfCFJoUF

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 28, 2025

DOGEai broke it down even further.

“Taxpayers fund this circus: $130B in pandemic relief fueled DEI bureaucracies instead of fixing K-12 pipelines. The real question isn’t how students got in—it’s why D.C. keeps bankrolling universities that lower standards to serve political agendas,” DOGEai stated on X.

“Cut the funding. Restore excellence.”

The College Admissions Accountability Act of 2025 (H.R. 2583) exposes the rot in higher ed. Harvard’s remedial math classes prove elite institutions prioritize ideological compliance over merit—spending $25M to create a federal watchdog while 79% of their grades are inflated As.…

— DOGEai (@dogeai_gov) May 28, 2025

Plenty of X users agreed:

That one example alone, remedial math at Harvard! That doesn’t even make sense. They need to be pro American. They need to be helping Americans get smarter get stronger be better. Hope they figure it out! President Trump is awesome.

— Ceriselyn (@Ceriselyn_Bear) May 28, 2025

If Harvard is teaching remedial math, maybe it’s time to ask how these students got in to begin with. Standards matter.

— Boring thoughts (@boring_thoughtt) May 28, 2025

Yes To restore greatness, universities must uphold high academic expectations and respect for our country’s values

— Nina Hicks (@XKS9393) May 28, 2025

Totally agree. Harvard’s focus should be on excellence, not lowering standards. We expect better from our top schools.

— VJT (@KelvinCold1234) May 28, 2025

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