Trump Demands Harvard Students' Info: 'We Want Those Names'
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The president’s remarks came in an overnight screed.

Donald Trump wants to know who exactly Harvard’s international students are—and why the countries they hail from aren’t paying up.

Trump claimed the Ivy League university has not been forthcoming about how much of its student body international students make up in an early-morning screed on Sunday.

“Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s [sic] education, nor do they ever intend to,“ Trump wrote.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    8 days ago

    Do you know who has to make that declaration? Per the 25th Amendment:

    Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

    In other words, the people who would have to invoke the 25th and declare him unfit, are the very Project 2025 graduates in his cabinet that are already pulling his strings and getting everything they want.

    • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      57·
      8 days ago

      So?

      Unless you want to argue that their likely refusal to carry out their sworn duties somehow frees them from any obligation to do so, that’s entirely irrelevant.

      Since they do in fact continue to have that obligation in spite of their likely refusal, it’s just that much more important that we point that out as often and as loudly as possible.

      It doesn’t matter how edgy and cynical you are while you bend over to let them fuck you - you’re still letting them.