Trump Blasts Harvard, Says They Hire ‘Leftist Dopes,’ ‘Birdbrains’

On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump blasted Harvard University for hiring “Leftist dopes” and “birdbrains” to teach at the institution while declaring they teach “Hate and Stupidity.”

Writing on Truth Social, Trump began by asserting, “Everyone knows that Harvard has ‘lost its way.’” He then noted that the university had hired two former hard-left mayors of New York and Chicago, Bill de Blasio and Lori Lightfoot, to teach about government, writing, “They hired, from New York (Bill D) and Chicago (Lori L), at ridiculously high salaries/fees, two of the WORST and MOST INCOMPETENT mayors in the history of our Country, to ‘teach’ municipal management and government. These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil.”

“Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders,’” he continued, then turned to former Harvard President Claudine Gay, who resigned after she had been harshly criticized for insisting that calls for genocide against Jews might not have violated Harvard’s codes of conduct because it depended on the “context” and had also been accused of plagiarism. Trump wrote:

Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn’t take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching, rather than firing her ON THE SPOT. Since then much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place.

“Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges,” he stated. “Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

On Monday, the Trump administration’s Department of Education announced it would freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value to Harvard University after the university said it would not comply with the Trump administration’s demand that the university claimed would “invade university freedoms.”

Last Friday, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services sent a letter to Harvard in which they stated, “By August 2025, the University must adopt and implement merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin …” adding that the same attitude must prevail in admissions policies. The correspondence also declared that by the same date, the university must “prevent admitting students hostile to the American values and institutions inscribed in the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence, including students supportive of terrorism and anti-Semitism.”

The university “shall commission an external party … to audit the student body, faculty and leadership for viewpoint diversity” by August 2025, the letter continued, in order to ensure that the leftist perspective that dominates the university should be contrasted with other viewpoints.

Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University, responded with a statement in which he said, “We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement,” contending, “The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights” and claiming the administration’s demands violated “Harvard’s First Amendment rights … threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.”