Speaking in an unintentionally hilarious interview on MSNBC, Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe had a complete and total meltdown over President Donald Trump’s decision to go on the attack against very woke Harvard University, particularly on the matter of foreign students and federal funding.
Namely, Professor Tribe told Lawrence O’Donnell, the host of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” during his Monday, May 26, appearance on that show, that President Trump is not only “obviously unhinged,” but is going on the attack against Harvard because he is an ignoramus who “hates intellect.”
Trump, for his part, had taken to Truth Social on the same Monday, Memorial Day, to hammer Harvard, saying, “We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country.”
Continuing, the president said, “Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason! The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) – But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!”
And, in another Monday morning post, the president threatened to strip Harvard of billions in funding, saying, “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!!!”
It was all of that posting that led to Professor Tribe having his meltdown live on MSNBC, a freakout that came in response to Lawrence O’Donnell asking him, “What is your response to Donald Trump’s latest attack?” That’s when an unhinged Tribe accused Trump of being unhinged, quite ironically.
He said, having that freakout, “Well, it’s really hard to know where to begin. He’s obviously unhinged. He has no idea what he’s talking about. He just thinks that slinging around frankly, BS about the people at Harvard and other institutions will somehow substitute for taking the law into account. He has been throwing everything he can at Harvard and courts have put a stop to it.”
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Building on that, the furious professor then insisted that it is “crazy” for the President of the United States to want American students in Harvard, saying, “This case involves Trump’s attempt to tell Harvard that it can no longer host foreign students. Now that’s crazy. There’s no legal basis for it. He’s talking about information that he would like about students. He wants to know details about what they say, what they think. That’s a violation of the First Amendment.”
Concluding, the angry professor started rambling about how President Trump allegedly hates intelligence and intellect, saying, “Obviously, this is a president who hates intellect, who despises the symbol of excellence in the world of higher education around the world. He thinks he can score points by attacking Harvard.”
Watch him here: