A group of Harvard students had some fun at Donald Trump’s expense, fooling him into believing he was being endorsed by the student newspaper The Harvard Crimson.
Members of the satirical student magazine The Harvard Lampoon posed as Crimson staffers to play a prank on the more serious student paper.
The students got Trump to pose for a photo with them by convincing him he was receiving an endorsement from The Crimson.
As part of the elaborate prank, the students even published an editorial, “Crimson Endorses Trump for President,” on a fake website. The editorial called Trump “the most formidable and competitive candidate on the Republican side.” The phony editorial even praised Trump for creating jobs on his reality show “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
“The creative methods and avenues through which Trump has created jobs would likely make (former Crimson editor-in-chief) Franklin D. Roosevelt ’03 smile,” the editorial read.
Crimson president Steven Lee said the newspaper does not typically endorse a candidate this early before an election. A Republican endorsement would also be out of character for the student publication.
The Trump campaign responded to the stunt by calling the students “fraudsters and liars.”
Trump’s spokeswoman Hope Hicks also made a dig at the Harvard students by saying Trump’s alma mater (The University of Pennsylvania) is “a school that has more important things to do.”
