Trump seeks $1 billion in damages from ‘Strongly Antisemitic Harvard University’

Published February 3, 2026 2:46am ET



President Donald Trump blasted “Strongly Antisemitic Harvard University” on Monday night, saying that he would be seeking “$1 billion in damages” from the Ivy League university. The president made the revelation in a Truth Social post in response to a New York Times report that claimed the Trump administration had halted its “demand for a $200 million payment to the government in hopes of finally resolving the administration’s conflicts with the university.”

“Strongly Antisemitic Harvard University has been feeding a lot of ‘nonsense’ to The Failing New York Times,” said Trump. “Harvard has been, for a long time, behaving very badly! They wanted to do a convoluted job training concept, but it was turned down in that it was wholly inadequate and would not have been, in our opinion, successful.” 

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