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Trump: “Harvard gets kick in the butt”
Updated on May 29, 2025 – 02:44 a.m.Reading time: 42 min.
Donald Trump follows the elite university Harvard. The US Foreign Minister also announces new single-time rules for Europeans. All developments in the news blog.
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US President Donald Trump pardoned a former governor who was convicted of corruption. John Rowland, who was a governor of Connecticut from 1995 to 2004, was sentenced to two separate federal criminal proceedings. The first case led to his resignation from the governor’s post. In the second case, he was sentenced to a 30-month prison sentence in 2015 for his illegal participation in two congress campaigns.
In the dispute with Harvard, US President Donald Trump once again put pressure on the elite university. “Harvard has to behave,” said the Republican when asked by a journalist in the White House. The university meets the United States “with great disrespect” and continues to maneuver itself offside. Trump emphasized that he wanted Harvard “to be great again” – but instead the university is looking for the confrontation and wool “fight”. “You want to show how smart you are and you get a kick in your butt.”
The Trump government has several universities, which it accuses of left-liberal orientation, with financial pressure on a leash, for example to stop diversity programs. It mainly justifies her approach with propalestinic protests at US universities and the accusation of tolerating anti-Semitic incidents on campus. Critics accuse the government of using the protests as an excuse to harass politically unpleasant institutions.
Unlike other universities, Harvard opposes the far-reaching demands of the US government. Trump’s government has therefore deleted grants in billions of bills. In addition, the US government wants to prevent the University of Massachusett’s university from accepting international students. A court deals with the case.
US President Donald Trump is hesitant with a view to new sanctions against Russia-but at the same time Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin set an ultimatum. “We will find out whether he will take us around the nose or not – and if he does it, we will react a little differently,” Trump said when he was performed in the White House. He could not say whether Putin actually wanted to end the war, but within “we will find out about it two weeks”. Read more about this here.
The US government introduces new visa restrictions for foreigners, which in its opinion limit the freedom of expression of US Americans. “Today I announce new visa restrictions that will apply to foreign civil servants and people who are involved in the censorship of Americans,” said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “Whether in Latin America, Europe or elsewhere – the times of the forgiving treatment of those who undermine the rights of Americans are over.”
The US State Department said that it was unacceptable that foreign officials would issue arrest warrants against US citizens due to contributions on American social media platforms or threaten them while they are on US soil. Likewise, it is unacceptable if “foreign officials from American technology platforms require global content moderation guidelines or to take part in censorship measures that go beyond their responsibility and have an impact on the United States”.
This will no longer be tolerated in the future, such measures violate the sovereignty of the United States, the ministry said. Rubio wrote on the X platform “that Americans have been finishing, harassed and even charged by foreign authorities for too long if they perceive their right to freedom of expression”.
