President Donald Trump has officially declared war on campus radicals and the universities that coddle them, and frankly, it’s about time. In his latest move against the leftist establishment, Trump has vowed to cut off federal funding for universities that allow “illegal protests,” making it clear that the days of masked agitators shutting down campuses with zero consequences are over.
“All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,” Trump declared on Truth Social. “Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!”
#BREAKING President Trump posts on Truth Social:
All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently… pic.twitter.com/TejpRsvvb0
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) March 4, 2025
Columbia University is already feeling the heat. After months of turning a blind eye to blatant antisemitism on campus, federal agencies are now threatening to pull $51 million in contracts and are reviewing whether to revoke up to $5 billion in federal funding. That’s a serious wake-up call.
Back in February, the House Committee on Education and Workforce put Columbia on notice, calling out its failure to protect Jewish students from harassment. Yet instead of taking real action, Columbia issued a generic statement about being “resolute” in its opposition to “promoting or glorifying violence or terror.” Sounds nice, but words are cheap. What’s actually changed?
Here’s the reality: If these protests were happening in reverse—if Jewish students were blocking Palestinian students from entering buildings, for example—the crackdowns would have been swift and brutal. We all know it. There would be mass suspensions, diversity training mandates, and every talking head in the media would be screaming about Islamophobia. But because it’s leftist students harassing Jews, the schools shrug and pretend it’s “complicated.”
Now that Trump is threatening to turn off the federal cash spigot, universities are suddenly scrambling to pretend they care. Because at the end of the day, these “woke” institutions don’t actually believe in any of the nonsense they preach. They’ll tolerate antisemitism if it means keeping their activist mobs happy, but they won’t tolerate losing billions in federal funding. That’s where they draw the line.
Trump is proving once again that he’s the only leader willing to take real action. He’s not playing around, and neither is the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has already gutted bloated federal agencies. Now, it’s time to do the same to these Marxist indoctrination camps that masquerade as universities.
Watch the panic set in. The “scholars” and administrators who let their campuses descend into chaos will suddenly discover that order, discipline, and consequences aren’t so bad after all—especially when their paychecks depend on it.
