Michael Wolff, additionally, suggested that apart from "holding the grudge", Donald Trump's "TV star instincts as a producer" play a key role in his legal battle against Ivy League Universities - especially Harvard.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington by NPR and other public radio organizations, said President Trump’s executive order violated the Constitution and the First Amendment.

Harvard is the first school to sue the administration after a back-and-forth between President Alan Garber and most of Trump's team.

President Trump's funding cuts to Harvard threaten the university's position as the world's leading research institution. The next 10 are all in China.

In a significant move affecting academic institutions and immigration, President Donald Trump's administration has temporarily suspended interviews for international student visas.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology closed its DEI office last week, following an 18-month assessment of the department's work.

The judge, Brian E. Murphy, said Wednesday that Trump officials had given the deportees “plainly insufficient” time to contest their expulsion. He directed the administration to provide the deported men the opportunity to contest their removal from the United States on the ground in Djibouti.

Harvard University won a longer-term reprieve from a Trump administration ban on enrolling international students, handing the nation’s oldest and richest university a victory in its battle with the White House.