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Amid the pro-Palestine protesting chaos across some of America’s most prominent colleges and universities, President Trump shared his Agenda 47 plan for higher education.
In a Truth Social post this week, the 45th president wrote, “The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical left.”
In a signature video message, Trump detailed the explosion of tuition costs over the last several years “while academics have been obsessed with indoctrinating America’s youth.”
He powerfully stated, “The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical left, and we will do that.”
He said that the “secret weapon” to a successful reclamation was the college accreditation system. He provided a brief overview of the purpose of the system, stating, “The accreditors are supposed to ensure that schools are not ripping off students and taxpayers, but they have failed, totally.”
Trump proclaimed that upon returning to the White House, he would “fire the radical left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist maniacs and lunatics.”
He revealed that his administration would seek out new accreditors “who will impose real standards on colleges once again and once and for all.”
He detailed the standards that the accreditors would have to uphold, including, “defending the American tradition and Western civilization, protecting free speech, eliminating wasteful administrative positions that drive up costs incredibly, removing all Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrats, offering options for accelerated and low-cost degrees, providing meaningful job placement and career services, and implementing college entrance and exit exams to prove that students are actually learning and getting their money’s worth.”
The 45th president continued, stating, “I will direct the Department of Justice to pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination, and schools that persist in explicit unlawful discrimination under the guise of equity will not only have their endowments snatched, but through budget reconciliation, I will advance a measure to have them fined up to the entire amount of their endowment.”
He noted, “A portion of the seized funds will then be used as restitution for victims of these illegal and unjust policies, policies that hurt our country so badly.”
President Trump concluded his message with a bang, stating, “We are going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institutions once and for all. We are going to have real education in America. Thank you.”
Just a few hours later, President Trump was asked about Columbia University’s decision to shut down its campus after allowing it to be taken over by anti-Israel protestors. He told reporters, “Columbia should gain a little strength, a little courage and keep their school open.”
He argued that caving to the mob was “crazy because that means the other side wins. When you start closing down colleges and universities – that means the other side [wins.]”
