In-town note 6: quotes

Final chunk of the gaggle, transcribed, courtesy of Haley Bull from Scripps:

(Q: is that an iPhone sir?)

“Yeah it’s lucky it is”

(Q (roughly): are you considering stopping other universities besides Harvard from taking foreign students?)

“Well, we’re taking a look at a lot of things, and as you know, billions of dollars has been paid to Harvard. How ridiculous is that, billions, and they have $52 billion as an endowment, they have $52 billion and this country is paying billions and billions of dollars and then give student loans, and they have to pay back the loan. So Harvard is going to have to change its ways.”

(Q: A lot of CEO’s in the US, big companies are foreign. What is that going to do?)

“We want to do that. We're actually going to be doing something in the near future that's going to make it possible for people to come into this country and come in and, you know, have a road toward citizenship. And I think it'll be very exciting, but it's too soon.

(Q: Why would you not want the best and brightest from around the world to I do come to Harvard?)

I do. But a lot of the people need remedial math and they go to Harvard. They want remedial math, math, have you seen that? Where the students can’t add two and two and they go to Harvard. They want remedial math and they're going to teach remedial math at Harvard. Now, wait a minute. So why would they get in? How can somebody that can't add or has very basic skills, how do they get into Harvard? Why (inaudible) And then you see those same people picketing and screaming at the United States and screaming at and you know they’re anti semitic or something. We don't want troublemakers here. But how do people that can't ,when Harvard comes out with a statement that they're going to teach some of their students remedial math that’ basic math that’s not the deal okay.

(On if he’s considering shortening the 90 day pause for tariffs on other countries and specific steps looking for EU to take):

“We have a lot of requests, and you know you don't have the people to handle it. Everybody wants to make a deal. I'm sure now the European Union wants to make a deal very badly, but they just, they don't, they don't do it right. They don't know about it, right. The other thing they do is they sue our companies all the time. You know, they have suits where their judges, I don't know if they're appointed by them, but they're, they're definitely Europe centric, and we're not going to, we're not going to stand for it. They have won a $17 billion lawsuit for Apple. And I read that case, and that's not a case that should have been won. They're suing other of our government. They use this as a weapon, but they use it really, to raise funds for what they do. It's almost like a fundraising mechanism. We add that to the fact that they do the non monetary tariffs and lots of other trading you would call them trading barriers. They don't take our cars, they don't take our agriculture, they don't take

anything, but we take their cars by the millions, and therefore they have the jobs, they get the money, and we get close plans not going to happen that way.”

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Linda Feldmann

Washington Bureau Chief

The Christian Science Monitor

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