Trump hates Harvard.

Gee I wonder why.

If he were a more Harvard kind of guy he would realize what he looks like, picking fights with the top of the heap university that did not beg him to become one of its graduates. Jealous much, Queens boy?

Attacks by President Trump and his lackeys against the country’s oldest university have been relentless, and come from all corners of the administration.

They include multiple bogus investigations, including one from the Justice Department into whether Harvard has been lying to the government about its admissions policy; billions in federal research funding cuts and freezes at the school and its partners for various reasons, from the school’s purported failure to stem antisemitism on campus, to discrimination against white students, to its failure to include enough conservative faculty and orthodoxy to satisfy the administration.

Of course “discrimination against white students” is the only possible explanation for why Trump is not an alumnus of Harvard Harvard Harvard.

The university has received juvenile threats from Education Secretary Linda McMahon, including a May 5 letter that reads like a late-night Trump rant, calling Harvard “a mockery of this country’s higher education system,” and decrying its large numbers of foreign students: “how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country — and why is there so much HATE?” The administration has threatened to revoke the school’s tax-exempt status. And Homeland Security head Kristi Noem has demanded that it turn over detailed information on its 6,800 foreign students, including disciplinary records.

On Thursday, deeming Harvard insufficiently cooperative, Noem suspended the school’s ability to enroll any foreign students, and put other schools on notice that they could be next. In addition to being unspeakably cruel to students, the move would further pressure Harvard’s finances, given that a quarter of its students are from other countries, and many pay higher tuition.

Win-win! Hassle foreign students and make trouble for Harvard. That’ll show them snotty elitists who look down on people like Trump just because they’re pig-ignorant and stupid with it.

As I’ve written before, this administration does notgive a flying fig about antisemitism. Trump is cozy with white supremacists and straight-up Nazis, and even has a few on the payroll. Fifty of the people who bought their way into a private audience with Trump at his Virginia golf club on Thursday night own crypto assets with names only white supremacists could love, including many named for racist meme Pepe the Frog, one whose name is an unprintable attack on Jews, one named for the n-word, and a few with names that are variations on the word “swastika.” The guests were all thoroughly vetted, according to the White House.

Blergh. I did not know that.