The comments are the latest volley in an escalating battle between the White House and one of the nation's most prestigious colleges.

President Trump threatened Harvard University’s tax-exempt status on Tuesday after the school rebuffed the administration’s demands ostensibly aimed at purging “woke” ideology from America’s college campuses. The changes, Harvard officials said, required severe restrictions, including to freedom of expression, that they could not accept.

President Trump threatened to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status, escalating a feud over antisemitism concerns and academic freedom at the nation’s wealthiest university. Trump wrote on social media Tuesday that Harvard’s decision to resist his administration’s demands to change its governance structure over campus antisemitism concerns could result in a loss of tax exemptions.