Melania Trump Spokesperson Responds To Report About Barron

By
Rachel Stevenson
-
0
701

You’ve got to hand it to the media—they’ll find just about any excuse to gin up a scandal around President Trump, even if it means inventing a whole soap opera involving Melania, Barron, and Harvard University. The latest tall tale floating around the internet claims Trump is going to war with the Ivy League because little Barron didn’t get accepted. Seriously? That’s the best they’ve got? Spoiler alert: according to Melania’s spokesperson, Barron never even applied. So this conspiracy theory, which got more traction from the left than Hunter Biden’s laptop ever did, is officially as fake as Joe Biden’s “I’m sharp as ever” routine.

First lady spokesperson Nicholas Clemens set the record straight with a sentence so definitive it probably gave half the staff at CNN indigestion: “Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false.” End of story, right? Well, not if you’re a professional rumor-monger who makes a living off of “anonymous sources” and Twitter gossip. They need the clicks too badly to let a fact get in the way.

But let’s be real—President Trump’s issues with Harvard have nothing to do with his son’s college preferences and everything to do with the fact that the institution has become a bloated, elitist echo chamber for woke ideology and antisemitic agitation. Trump didn’t wake up one day and decide to start pulling billions in federal funding because someone at the admissions office didn’t return Barron’s emails. He’s targeting Harvard because the school has been stonewalling the Department of Homeland Security over foreign student records and creating a campus environment that’s more friendly to Hamas sympathizers than Jewish students.

In fact, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem—who, let’s just say, doesn’t exactly hand out participation trophies—delivered a scathing letter to Harvard’s leadership, flatly stating that the university had lost its “privilege” to enroll foreign students. Privilege. Not right. Because the federal government, last anyone checked, doesn’t owe Harvard a dime—especially not when the school refuses to comply with lawful requests and insists on shoving DEI ideology down everyone’s throats while pretending it’s still some beacon of academic freedom.

Let’s talk numbers: the Trump administration froze $3.2 billion in federal grant funding and is instructing agencies to terminate all federal contracts with the university. That’s not a grudge—that’s a long-overdue audit of where taxpayer money is going and what it’s funding. And if what it’s funding is radical activism dressed up as education, then yeah, it’s probably time to reroute that money to trade schools that are actually preparing students for real jobs instead of just turning out another batch of disillusioned baristas with gender studies degrees.

Naturally, the left’s favorite lifeline, the judicial system, stepped in—because of course it did. Judge Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee (big surprise), issued a temporary restraining order to protect Harvard’s ability to host foreign students. It’s almost like there’s a cheat code for elite institutions to avoid consequences: just keep a few friendly judges on speed dial and let the lawsuits do the heavy lifting.

Meanwhile, Trump is calling out Harvard for dragging its feet on turning over student visa records, and he’s not exactly pulling punches. In typical Trump fashion, he slammed them for being “very slow” to produce the lists and accused the university of protecting “radicalized lunatics.” Honestly, if Harvard’s administration spent as much time cooperating with federal agencies as they do hosting anti-Israel speakers and printing glossy DEI reports, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

So no, this isn’t about Barron. This is about a president who’s fed up with Ivy League institutions that treat federal law like a nuisance and taxpayer money like an entitlement. And if that ruffles a few tweed jackets in Cambridge, well, maybe it’s time they learned what real-world accountability looks like.

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR