Trump lashes at out Harvard and says he could cut $3bn more in funds

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Donald Trump has escalated his campaign against Harvard University on Monday, threatening to take away $3bn in grants and lashing out at some of its foreign students as “radicalized lunatics”.

Trump said would consider removing the money from Harvard and giving it to trade schools in the US. “What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

In a separate post he railed against the university’s international students, saying he was waiting on Harvard to supply “foreign student lists” so that the US government could determine “how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country”.

The US president’s latest attack came days after a judge in Boston temporarily blocked Trump administration from trying to bar Harvard from enrolling international students.

Harvard had filed a motion against the US government and posted on X, “Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard.”

This is a developing story