Trump's son didn't apply to Harvard, says first lady's spokesperson
Some social media speculation is that the president is cutting billions of dollars in federal grants and funding to the Ivy League institution because it rejected his son as a student
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Harvard wasn't among the schools that US President Donald Trump's son Barron considered when he was figuring out where he wanted to go to college, Nicholas Clemens, a spokesperson for Barron's mother, first lady Melania Trump, said.
Some social media speculation is that the president is cutting billions of dollars in federal grants and funding to the Ivy League institution because it rejected his son as a student.
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Clemens said such speculation was wrong.
“Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false,” Clemens said.
Barron, 19, is a student at New York University's business school.
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The revelation came days after the Trump administration moved to block Harvard University from enrolling any international students, a decision that has been put on hold by a federal judge, pending a lawsuit.
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