Melania Trump Shuts Down Viral Conspiracy Theory About Barron’s College Search

First Lady Melania Trump is disregarding a viral on-line idea that the President Donald Trump‘s management is concentrated on Harvard University after it allegedly rejected their son Barron Trump.

“Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false,” a spokesperson for Melania, 55, tells PEOPLE.

PEOPLE reached out to Harvard University admissions, however didn’t straight away pay attention again.

Barron, 19, is recently a pupil at New York University. His faculty admissions had been the topic of hypothesis because the Trump management’s Tuesday, May 27, choice to slash all final federal investment to the Ivy League establishment. The transfer got here after Harvard refused to bow to the management’s listing of calls for issued in April, which focused Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) tasks, the admission of world scholars and extra.

The final federal price range to be minimize upload as much as $100 million, according to the New York Times. Over the process the remaining month, the Trump management has frozen about $3.2 billion in grants and contracts with Harvard, the opening moreover studies.

The most up-to-date letter dropped at Harvard officers instructs the Ivy League establishment to answer the contract cancellations via June 6. Anything deemed essential might be transferred to different distributors, the New York Times studies.

Last week, the Trump management tried to prevent world scholars from attending Harvard. On Friday, May 23, the college sued the management and a federal pass judgement on issued a brief restraining order, according to the Times.

In April, a researcher at Harvard mentioned that their analysis monkeys have been in danger of being euthanized amid the slashed federal investment. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a stop-work order to researchers that month.

Sarah Fortune, the lead scientist on a tuberculosis find out about being carried out at Harvard, informed The Boston Globe in April, “It’s one of these heavy accountability to paintings with them and to simply be requested to kill them midway during the find out about…”

While Harvard has fought the Trump management in court docket, fellow Ivy League establishment Columbia University agreed to the management’s calls for in March, permitting new executive oversight for his or her Middle East research division and extra.

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The Trump management asserts that those calls for to better training establishments are geared toward curtailing anti-semitism and discrimination towards feminine athletes, however critics of such insurance policies have accused them of in fact being anti-Palestinian and anti-transgender athletes.