No, Barron Trump was not rejected by Harvard, Melania says amid university battle

[AZLD4Candidate]

Source: USA Today via AOL

President Donald Trump is escalating his battle with Harvard University.

Harvard is one of several universities targeted by the Trump administration, which alleges schools aren't doing enough to protect Jewish students. Harvard has defied executive orders seeking to influence the school's curriculum and filed multiple lawsuits. On May 27, the New York Times and CNN reported Trump is poised to cancel the remaining federal contracts with Harvard, worth an estimated $100 million in total.

The fierce fight has led to questions about Trump's personal history with the university. Some have wondered if Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump's son Barron Trump, 19, was rejected from the university.

"Can’t help but wonder how many Trumps got rejected by Harvard," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., mused on a social media post that received more than 40,000 views.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/no-barron-trump-not-rejected-132830909.html

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I don't believe the plastic Slovenian robot or anything that comes out of her mouth.

This family is THAT petty to do this because the little princeling wasn't accepted.

[Autumn]

1. Prove it. Because you are a lying grifter and if you said the sky was blue

I would know better.

[twodogsbarking]

2. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[Walleye]

3. Oh Melania and we know she is as honest as the day is long

I guess everybody’s too chicken to ask Barron

[Ocelot II]

4. According to Snopes there's no evidence Barron applied to or was rejected by Harvard.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/21/columbia-harvard-stanford-barron-trump/

Trump can hate Harvard easily enough because it's the flagship Ivy League school and he didn't go there ,while a lot of people he hates did - including Obama, who was the president of the Harvard Law Review. . His jihad against Harvard goes back to his first administration, if not before.

Between 2017 and 2020, during Donald Trump's first term, Harvard University frequently clashed with the Trump administration over immigration, civil rights, and academic freedom. It publicly condemned the administration’s travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries, defended undocumented students by challenging efforts to dismantle DACA, and fought alongside MIT to overturn a policy that threatened the visa status of international students taking online classes.

During this period, Harvard was also the target of a high-profile lawsuit alleging anti-Asian bias in admissions, a case supported by Trump’s Department of Justice. Although Harvard ultimately prevailed in court, the administration’s scrutiny of elite institutions continued, including investigations into alleged unreported foreign funding...

https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/how-harvard-became-ground-zero-in-trumps-war-on-elite-universities-a-timeline-19609256.htm

[localroger]

8. This is probably the best reason to believe Barron wasn't rejected

I doubt he would have even applied to Harvard, knowing how Daddy Trump feels about the place.

[Ocelot II]

9. Harvard would have admitted him if he'd applied, regardless of his GPA.

All those elite colleges have a long tradition of legacy admissions. If your daddy is a rich somebody, an alumnus or otherwise, you're automatically accepted even if you can barely tie your shoes, because daddy has money and might donate a building or an endowed chair, as long as it's named after him. If your daddy is POTUS and rich, so much the better. I can't imagine that any college would have rejected Barron's application. But Trump wouldn't have wanted his son, who is much taller than he, is to go to Harvard, where he did not go and against which he declared jihad years ago, and where Obama was president of the Law Review.

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Agreed

just look at all the Zillionaires, Politcians and Corporations that Trump bent over backwards, to give him whatever he wanted, just to get him off their backs....

His infamous art of the deal, is a constant stream of extortions........

[mercuryblues]

25. Trump would never

spend that kind of money on one of his kids, unless it was for plastic surgery.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

32. Bingo

A billionaire's and former President's son? Thats basically guaranteed acceptance by any college, particularly Ivy league or most any other private university.

I know many want to hold them up on a pedestal, particularly now, but let's be honest, they care more about money then most anything else. Accepting someone like Trump's son and cozying up to him is a great way to try to get money added to their endowment. Thats a no brainer admission, even if trump was trump and gave them nothing, it's still a chance at hundreds of thousands or millions added to their endowment, and that chance is more important that some other merit admission that doesn't have rich parents who can give the school money.

[OMGWTF]

5. Of course T💩p hates Harvard -- their motto is "Veritas" which means 'truth.'

Shitler can't handle the truth.

[Bayard]

6. He doesn't give a rat's ass about Jewish students

He just hates that there's a bunch of people there that are a whole lot smarter than him. Plus, Obama graduated from Harvard, and is WAY smarter than him.

[DENVERPOPS]

12. At least Harvard

was smart enough to reject WBush from their law school...........

[FishBones51]

7. Does the right EVER tell the truth?

[DENVERPOPS]

13. It should be common knowledge

that any and all Republicans are:

#1 Hypocrites.....

#2 Always lie

#3 Anything they say is always 180 degrees from the truth or reality....

[DiverDave]

24. You forgot

Accusing everyone else for what they are doing. Or did.
I'm having a senior moment 😳 I forgot the word...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. I think the word you're looking for is "projecting."

[DiverDave]

34. Absolutely.

Brain fart.
Thank you.

[gab13by13]

10. I would rather talk about Krasnov

The only way he got into any college was by paying someone to take his SAT's.

A professor at Fordham did state that Krasnov was the most goddamn dumbest student he ever had.

The only way that Krasnov was accepted to Wharton was because Krasnov's older brother was very good friends with the admissions officer.

Krasnov's claim that he graduated at the top his class has a huge hole in it. His name is not listed at Wharton as a student who graduated with honors.

Michael Cohen, when he worked for Krasnov, told Wharton that he would sue them back to the stone ages if it ever released Krasnov's grades.

[AZLD4Candidate]

16. He and plastic woman are two sides of the same coin.

[FakeNoose]

18. Also Chump's dad Fred C. Chump made a substantial donation to U Penn/Wharton School

I think that had quite a bit to do with Chump getting accepted.

Putting the shoe on the other foot, I can't see Chump making any "donations" to Harvard to do the same for his own son. I could be wrong, but I suspect that Chump thinks any college should accept Barron as a privilege.

[hamsterjill]

14. Okay, now I'm really suspicious.

She wouldn't have addressed the rumors at all if they weren't getting to her someway. Makes me believe there is more substance to them than I thought before.

They are such petty people.

[Wonder Why]

15. He wasn't rejected. They refused to find someone to take his tests and fill out his application.

[ToxMarz]

17. Although Harvard is an excellent educational institue

I imagine the trump family found their curricula in Grifting was lacking, and no one would know better.

[Dem4life1970]

19. Barron's daddy(?), Donnie from Queens...

...has a U. Penn. Diploma from the Wharton School of Business. Ivy envy is what Donnie "small hands" from Queens has....and it must stick in his craw that Pres. Obama and FLOTUS Michelle Obama are Harvard grads (& Pres. Obama was President of the Harvard Law Review).

[twodogsbarking]

20. Wealth can really destroy people. I should be ok.

[twodogsbarking]

21. The might have taken him but his dad said that Mexico would pay the tuition.

They are Harvard. They aren't stupid.

[IronLionZion]

22. Donald may have been rejected, or is jealous of Barack Obama

Either way, we know he really hates international students but doesn't give a flying f about Jewish students.

[Zorro]

23. Barron chose not to apply to Harvard

because their degree in Plumbing didn't meet his high standards.

[AZ8theist]

26. Illegal alien prostitute says what?

[Ponietz]

27. "If you're explaining, you're losing." -- Ronald Reagan

[Justice Brandeis]

28. They can say that

but I don't buy it.

[doc03]

30. I haven't seen much of Barron but when I have he always has that

soulless blank expression like Steven Miller and Jarrod Kushner.

[Tarzanrock]

31. Just like Faust or any one person who has sold ...

his/her soul to Mephistopheles.

[cyclonefence]

33. I believe with all my heart that Barron applied to Harvard

and didn't get in (like he'd be going to NYU--which is a fine school, but it's not Harvard). How many times has Trump touted some member of his cabinet or coterie as having gone to Harvard? Harvard is the be-all and end-all for Donald Trump, and he was so proud of how well Barron had done in school--of *course* Trump expected his spawn to go to Harvard.

And every vile thing about her aside, Melania did what a mother's supposed to do when she lied and denied. No need to humiliate your kid further by going public about what schools he didn't get into. But *nobody* believes her. As it should be.

[FakeNoose]

35. I have no insider knowledge but here's my "educated" guess ...

Barron's grades probably weren't good enough to get into Harvard on his own. He's not a typical legacy candidate since his own parents or grandparents didn't matriculate there. Harvard as well as other top schools will quietly bend their requirements for legacies, but not for other people's kids.

Sure Harvard knew that Barron's parents could afford the tuition, but they might have expected some kind of large donation (as wealthy families often do) to get their kid into a top school. Yes it's a shakedown but other wealthy families are fine with it, including Donald's own father who made a donation to University of Pennsylvania to get Donald accepted. Chump's attitude (I'm guessing here) was that Harvard should have been delighted to accept Barron Trump and his underwhelming grades, just because he's the son of a President. No additional donation would have been necessary, in Chump's estimation.

Now what's Harvard going to do? Lower their standards just for one kid who's not very smart? Why should they, when Harvard rejects more high-quality applicants every year than most prestige schools ever receive. They've probably "disappeared" the paperwork so that no one would ever know that Barron didn't get accepted.

That's how I see it.