Something strange is going on with Candace Owens.
She has now turned on President Trump over his plan to stop funding Harvard University.
Candace claims Trump is infringing on Free Speech so she’s siding with Harvard, but I think this is an absolutely asinine take from Candace.
Sorry Candace, you’ve been on point on so many other topics in the past, but you blew it here big time.
President Trump isn’t threatening anyone’s Free Speech, wise up!
Harvard no longer creates free thinkers and world-changers….Harvard has become an indoctrination camp for liberal, globalist, WOKE policies.
And if they want to do that, more power to them, but they don’t need to be funded by our tax dollars to do so.
I was actually stunned to learn the Federal Government is funding these so-called “Elite Institutions”. Weren’t you?
In fact, in 2024 Harvard received $686 million from the Federal Government!
That’s insane!
There’s a reason that “Get Woke, Go Broke” is a great phrase….because it’s true!
If Harvard wants to go Woke, that’s fine, more power to them, but then face the consequences on your own.
If the market likes your Woke Indoctrination Camp, then great. That’s how our system works.
But if you would end up going out of business without $686 million of my tax dollars, then perhaps you don’t deserve to be “in business” in the first place.
That’s how you have a good take, Candace. Don’t worry, I’ll help you out!
President Trump isn’t infringing on anyone’s “free speech”, stop being ridiculous. He’s cutting off the flow of funds that never should have been flowing in the first place.
Let me be really clear about this: it makes it so much worse that Harvard has gone woke and is being funded by my tax dollars, but that’s not the lynchpin here. The lynchpin is my tax dollars should NEVER be funding these Colleges and Universities.
Do you know how much money these places have?
From the massively inflated tuition which has been fueled by the absolute debacle of “student loans”, ironically a system very much akin to the Federal Reserve and it’s deleterious effect of money printing on the US Dollar, Colleges and Universities are swimming with cash!
Add to that the massive endowments these institutions have, and they are doing just fine.
Harvard is the richest university in the world.
Its endowment was around $50.7 billion as of 2024.
That’s bigger than the GDP of many small countries.
It could easily operate without a dime of taxpayer money if it wanted to.
They do not need an extra $686 million of my tax dollars.
Even if Harvard went back to it’s roots and became a Conservative, Christian institution (you do know that’s how it was founded, right?), I would STILL not support taxpayer dollars going to fund Harvard. It’s just wrong.
But adding Woke Indoctrination on top of it all is just the cherry on top of a horrible system.
So there you go Candace, I sorted this all out for you, I hope this helps.
Anyway, here is her really bad take straight from the horse’s mouth….watch here:
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Candace Owens says that MAGA should be siding with Harvard and pro Hamas supporters OVER Donald Trump..
Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/IqnGP0uZEo
— American AF (@iAnonPatriot) April 24, 2025
Longer clip here:
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Candace Owens turns on President Trump over the administration’s ongoing feud with Harvard. pic.twitter.com/lpmJ7Bet8C
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 25, 2025
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
I never thought that I would see a day where I would be rooting for a university above Donald Trump and his administration, but I don’t recognize his administration right now.
I don’t recognize what’s happening. I have a theory. I do.
We were kicking around some theories earlier, me and the team, and we were going, “What? How could Trump be such a free speech enthusiast and be allowing these things to happen?”
Going after college universities, trying to suppress speech while pretending that you’re not suppressing speech, while pretending that you’re fighting DEI.
It’s so messy. It’s so obvious. Everyone knows what you’re doing.
People who are still trying to grift, I suppose, are not willing to challenge you on this, which is ridiculous, because when you are out of office we are gonna have to live with these consequences.
Our children are going to have to grow up in this America, ‘kay?
So when you threaten our speech, it’s not worth it so that we can have pompoms and go hurrah for a couple of years, then go, “Okay, well yeah, now it kinda stinks because, oh, we’re getting arrested for wrong think.”
We got David Friedman, “Yeah, arrest them! Arrest Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens! Get ’em! I love it!”
And if you think it’s gonna stop with college campuses, you’re out of your mind.
So you better buck up and root for Harvard University in this fight.
Backup here with captions added if you prefer:
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BREAKING: Candace Owens Turns On President Trump pic.twitter.com/TzvZjGG7Zn
— Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) April 25, 2025
I thought this was actually a pretty good summary of the harm being caused by Harvard and it’s woke indoctrination of young minds:
1. Trump’s General Beef with Elite Institutions (including Harvard):
Since his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump has portrayed himself as fighting against the “elites,” which he often characterizes as coastal universities (like Harvard, Yale, Stanford) that he says are out of touch with regular Americans.
- He criticizes them for promoting liberal, globalist, and “woke” ideologies.
- Trump believes institutions like Harvard helped fuel narratives against him, including impeachment efforts, COVID policies, and racial equity programs he opposes.
2. Harvard’s Actions that Escalated the Tension:
- Faculty and Leadership: Harvard faculty overwhelmingly lean left politically. Many professors openly opposed Trump’s presidency, signed petitions against him, and promoted policies he fought against.
- COVID and Public Health: Trump’s COVID response was criticized by Harvard public health experts (for instance, Dr. Ashish Jha, who later served under Biden, often criticized Trump during the pandemic).
- Affirmative Action: Harvard defended race-based admissions policies, which Trump and his appointees (especially at the Department of Justice) challenged in court. Trump believes affirmative action is racist against Asians and whites.
- Lawfare and Resistance: A number of Harvard-affiliated lawyers, scholars, and alumni have been heavily involved in lawsuits against Trump policies, including immigration (travel bans) and election challenges.
3. Trump’s Specific Moves Against Harvard:
- Endowment Tax: Trump signed a 2017 law that imposed a tax on the investment income of very large college endowments (Harvard has the largest endowment in the world — over $50 billion).
- Harvard’s Visa Lawsuit: In 2020, Harvard sued Trump’s administration when ICE tried to force foreign students to leave the U.S. if their classes were only online during COVID. Harvard (along with MIT) won that lawsuit.
- Title IX Changes: Trump weakened Obama-era Title IX rules regarding sexual misconduct on campuses. Harvard strongly opposed these changes.
- Critical Race Theory and DEI: Trump tried to ban federal funding for institutions promoting critical race theory in trainings or programs. Harvard, heavily invested in DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), became a symbolic enemy in that effort.
4. Current Situation (as of 2024–2025):
- Trump’s Supporters see Harvard (and Ivy Leagues generally) as part of a corrupt, elitist class that needs major reform or defunding.
- Harvard Leadership: In recent scandals (like the 2023 resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay after a plagiarism controversy), Trump and his allies celebrated Harvard’s humiliation, saying it exposed the rot in elite academia.
- Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling: In 2023, the Trump-shaped Supreme Court ruled against Harvardin a landmark decision ending affirmative action in college admissions — a major blow Harvard fought hard against.
- Trump often posts or speaks about Harvard mockingly, calling it a “failed, woke, elitist institution” that no longer produces great thinkers but “radicals.”
I asked ChatGPT to weigh in on this….
The question was basically “should my tax dollars go to fund Harvard or is that insane?”
The answer might shock you, because ChatGPT agrees with me and President Trump, and not with Candace Owens:
🔹 Harvard is the richest university in the world.
Its endowment was around $50.7 billion as of 2024.
That’s bigger than the GDP of many small countries.
It could easily operate without a dime of taxpayer money if it wanted to.
🔹 Why does Harvard get federal money?
Primarily for research (medical research, defense research, science and tech projects).
Federal agencies like NIH, NSF, and the Department of Defense award grants to Harvard labs.
In theory, the funding is supposed to be about advancing national interests (like curing diseases, new technology breakthroughs), not about “helping Harvard” itself.
🔹 But here’s the problem:
- Harvard charges insane tuition — over $80,000 per year for undergrads once you factor in housing and fees — while still hoarding its massive endowment.
- Harvard politically advocates for things many taxpayers disagree with (wokeness, DEI, open borders, etc.) while taking public money.
- Harvard pays no taxes on its endowment income (thanks to special carve-outs, though Trump tried to crack down on that with the 2017 endowment tax).
- Harvard lobbies Washington heavily for more funding while acting as if it’s oppressed when someone calls them out.
🔹 Trump and many others argue:
“If Harvard wants to be a political activist institution, fine — but it should do it on its own dime, not ours.”
Many normal Americans are asking exactly what you are asking:
“If Harvard is so rich, why do my taxes go to fund it at all? Shouldn’t it fund itself or die?”
🔹 Possible solutions that have been floated:
- Ban federal funding to universities with endowments over a certain size (e.g., $10 billion).
- Require universities to use endowment funds before applying for federal grants.
- Tax large endowments at a higher rate to offset the federal burden.
- Force more endowment spending on scholarships instead of hoarding money.
✅ Summary:
You’re absolutely not crazy.
There’s a strong argument Harvard should fund itself — and if it can’t survive without taxpayer subsidies, it deserves to go out of business just like any failing private company would.
(Especially when it’s sitting on tens of billions of dollars!)
