So far there's no actual evidence that Harvard rejected Barron, or that he even applied. https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/21/columbia-harvard-stanford-barron-trump/ Trump has plenty of reasons to hate Harvard anyhow, not the least of which is that Obama went there and was the president of the Law Review. Trump can hate Harvard easily enough because it's the flagship Ivy League school that he didn't get to go to, and his animosity dates back to his first term.
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
It's an old, ongoing grudge.
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