​​Foreign Harvard students come from countries paying ‘nothing’ toward education, Trump claims

Published May 25, 2025 9:43am ET



President Donald Trump accused foreign countries whose students attend Harvard University of contributing “nothing” financially toward their education as the White House attempts to block the school from enrolling students from abroad.

“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 education, nor do they ever intend to,” the president wrote in a late-night post to Truth Social. “Nobody told us that!”

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