Dem Senator Tried Spreading A False Rumor That Barron Trump Applied To Harvard And Was Rejected

[mudwhistle]

A Dem Senator tried spreading a rumor last month that the spat between Trump and Harvard was because he claimed that his son Barron applied to Harvard and was rejected.

Yet another attempt by the left to spread lies about Trump or his administration.

One Democratic senator, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, implied that the president may be freezing funds to Harvard because of a personal quest for revenge, writing on X and Threads above an Esquire story about Harvard's feud with Trump: "Can't help but wonder how many Trumps got rejected by Harvard."


However, there is no evidence that these universities rejected Barron Trump, a New York University student.


As first reported by USAToday, the first lady's office categorically denied that Barron Trump even applied to Harvard.


"Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false," said Nick Clemens, spokesperson for the Office of the First Lady, in an email to Snopes. (USAToday reported receiving the same statement.)


Clemens did not respond to repeated inquiries as to whether the first lady's son was rejected from Columbia or Stanford. Nor did those universities immediately return requests to confirm or debunk that they rejected admission to the 19-year-old; this story will be updated if they respond.


Google searches for "Barron Trump Harvard rejection," "Barron Trump Stanford rejection" and "Barron Trump Columbia rejection" returned no results showing evidence that these universities rejected him as of this writing. Similarly, Google searches for "Barron Trump applied to Harvard," "Barron Trump applied to Columbia" and "Barron Trump applied to Stanford" returned no relevant results as of this writing.


A search of the president's Truth Social posts also found no mention of "Barron" in conjunction with any university; searches for "Harvard," "Columbia" and "Stanford" also found no posts which mentioned Barron Trump or any of the Trump children as of this writing.


Barron Trump broke from his family's tradition when he decided to attend NYU; in the past, the president's children have gone to either the University of Pennsylvania or Georgetown University, or both.

Unpacking claim Barron Trump was rejected from Harvard, Columbia, Stanford

Claims about Barron Trump being rejected from various universities spread amid his father's threats to withhold federal funding from the institutions.

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[pknopp]

I didn't see where he mentioned Barron at all.

 

[wamose]

The left are weasels. You can't believe a fucking word they say.

 

[Polishprince]

I would not be surprised if Sen. Whitehouse got sued by Barron over this slander.

Barron is a private citizen, and you really can't attack someone and accuse them of being rejected by a college without proof.

 

[Zafira Cherry]

I didn't see where he mentioned Barron at all.

He did not
"Can't help but wonder how many Trumps got rejected by Harvard."

Seems these MAGAs are not good at comprehension

 

[Zafira Cherry]

I would not be surprised if Sen. Whitehouse got sued by Barron over this slander.

Barron is a private citizen, and you really can't attack someone and accuse them of being rejected by a college without proof.

Best of luck

"Can't help but wonder how many Trumps got rejected by Harvard."

 

[mudwhistle]

I would not be surprised if Sen. Whitehouse got sued by Barron over this slander.

Barron is a private citizen, and you really can't attack someone and accuse them of being rejected by a college without proof.

It depends.

If some Sen makes up a lie about Barron or Melania.....they an be sued.

Depends on how much damages they can prove.