Trump threatens to redistribute Harvard grants to trade schools

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to redirect Harvard University grants to U.S. trade schools instead.

Though when and how such a plan will be implemented is unclear.

Ahn Sung-jin reports.

The feud between the Trump administration and Harvard University continues to escalate.

Trump posted on his social media Truth Social on Monday that he is "considering taking three billion dollars of grant money from a very antisemitic Harvard."

He said he would redirect the three billion dollars in federal grants to trade schools instead.

Trump had previously cited concerns over antisemitism on campus for freezing 2-point-2 billion dollars in grants.

How Trump is to redistribute the funds and whether the grants come from the funding that he already froze is unclear.

His latest remark comes after he demanded Harvard to release the name and nationalities of its international students, and comes and less than a week since a judge halted the Trump administration from barring international students enrolling at Harvard.

The Ivy League School had previously argued that the administration's actions were a "blatant violation of the First Amendment" and comes as the university opposes "the government's demands to control Harvard's governance, curriculum and the ideology of its faculty and students."

Meanwhile, in a message to mark Memorial Day, Trump denounced what he called "USA-hating judges" for hampering his immigration policies.

Ahn Sung-jin, Arirang News.