President Donald Trump arrives for a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
In a separate post, Trump added Monday, "I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land."
"What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!" he wrote.
Fox News Digital reached out to Harvard for comment.
Judge Allison D. Burroughs – who was appointed by former President Barack Obama – granted Harvard University a temporary restraining order on Friday, preventing the government from revoking the Ivy League school's certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. The program permits the university to host international students with F-1 or J-1 visas to study in the U.S.
In a letter Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem informed Harvard's leadership that the university had lost its "privilege" of enrolling foreign students as a result of the institution's "refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security with pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity and inclusion' policies."
"This action should not surprise you and is the unfortunate result of Harvard’s failure to comply with simple reporting requirements," Noem wrote.
A pedestrian with an umbrella walks by Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 22, 2025. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The letter gave Harvard another 72 hours to comply and send the requested information in order to regain its certification, but instead, Harvard filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts early Friday.
In its court filing, Harvard said the revocation impacts more than 7,000 visa holders – more than a quarter of its student body – and "is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act."
"It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students," the lawsuit says.
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Burroughs set another hearing on the matter for Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in Boston federal court.
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