Trump slams 'weak' Columbia president after days of campus chaos: 'She was so afraid'

Former President Donald Trump during a rally in Wisconsin slammed Columbia University President Minouche Shafik as "weak" amid the anti-Israel chaos on campus.

Former President Donald Trump speaks to crowds in Waukesha, Wisconsin.  (Fox News )

"They did an incredible job. They [overtook] one of the big buildings, beautiful landmark building. Boy it got the hell beat out of it last night. You know you're supposed to take care of those buildings. It took a beating. But the police came in. In exactly two hours, everything was over. It was a beautiful thing to watch," Trump continued. 

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The protest on Columbia’s campus is just one of dozens playing out across colleges nationwide, with some of the nation’s most elite universities coping with mass protests and encampments demanding schools divest from Israel. Schools such as UCLA, Yale, Harvard, Fordham, UT Austin are just a few of the schools embroiled in the protests. 

Columbia University faculty and staff gather on the campus in solidarity with student protesters who are demonstrating against the university's investments in Israel, Monday, April 29, 2024, in New York.   (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Trump has repeatedly condemned the protests amid his trial in Manhattan, where is currently facing 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. Trump has pleaded not guilty to each of the charges, and has largely been kept away from the campaign trail to attend the trial. 

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"What's going on at the college level… Columbia, NYU and others is a disgrace. And it's really on Biden," Trump said last week outside the courtroom.

New York Police Department officers detain dozens of anti-Israel students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024.  (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The NYPD arrested an estimated 300 people at Columbia and City College overnight. Following the arrests, an encampment was established on Fordham University’s campus in the Bronx, with the school informing student protesters Wednesday afternoon they are suspended and banned from campus. 

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Trump is on the campaign trail in Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday before he heads back to Manhattan to resume trial proceedings Thursday morning.  

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