Why Hasn't Trump Attacked Yale?

[Pyrite]

The idea of Harvard seems to provoke hostility from trump, but not so when it comes to Yale.

 

[Jessie C]

While the Trump administration has cited a range of justifications for cutting grants to other universities — such as unchecked antisemitism, failures to maintain campus order and a perceived lack of intellectual diversity — Yale has largely avoided confrontation. Although the University has not faced targeted attacks to its federal funding, the Department of Education opened an investigation into antisemitism at Yale on March 19 in response to a discrimination complaint filed in April 2024 by the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Anti-Defamation League.While the Trump administration has cited a range of justifications for cutting grants to other universities — such as unchecked antisemitism, failures to maintain campus order and a perceived lack of intellectual diversity — Yale has largely avoided confrontation. Although the University has not faced targeted attacks to its federal funding, the Department of Education opened an investigation into antisemitism at Yale on March 19 in response to a discrimination complaint filed in April 2024 by the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Anti-Defamation League.While the Trump administration has cited a range of justifications for cutting grants to other universities — such as unchecked antisemitism, failures to maintain campus order and a perceived lack of intellectual diversity — Yale has largely avoided confrontation. Although the University has not faced targeted attacks to its federal funding, the Department of Education opened an investigation into antisemitism at Yale on March 19 in response to a discrimination complaint filed in April 2024 by the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Anti-Defamation League.The idea of Harvard seems to provoke hostility from trump, but not so when it comes to Yale.

"While the Trump administration has cited a range of justifications for cutting grants to other universities — such as unchecked antisemitism, failures to maintain campus order and a perceived lack of intellectual diversity — Yale has largely avoided confrontation. Although the University has not faced targeted attacks to its federal funding, the Department of Education opened an investigation into antisemitism at Yale on March 19 in response to a discrimination complaint filed in April 2024 by the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Anti-Defamation League."

Yale spared for now from Trump’s punitive Ivy funding cuts

As elite universities face federal funding threats and congressional grilling over antisemitism, Yale has avoided direct targeting through concessions, careful messaging and a growing presence in Washington.

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It's only a matter of time before our destroyer adds Yale to the list.....wait for it.

 

[dmpi]

Funny how the liberals now care about elitist ivy league schools.

 

[Pyrite]

Funny how the liberals now care about elitist ivy league schools.

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I wonder why Yale has been spared. Could vance's Yale Law School degree have anything to do with it?

 

[Bodi]

seems to provoke hostility from trump, but not so when it comes to Yale.

Because Turtle Dude is holding him off....

 

[Juks]

The idea of Harvard seems to provoke hostility from trump, but not so when it comes to Yale.

Harvard has become the prime example in this war against inclusion, free speech, and academic independence. If Trump “defeats” Harvard, other universities will be forced to adapt to the Trump administration as well. The fact that Harvard has been chosen as the main adversary, rather than Yale, is likely due to the fact that several people close to Trump attended Yale., for example, Brett Kavanaugh and J.D. Vance. If Yale were made the main target, it could damage the reputation of those individuals.

 

[Airyaman]

The idea of Harvard seems to provoke hostility from trump, but not so when it comes to Yale.

Well, it helps that his VP got his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Why does Trump NEVER talk about the guy who tried to kill him????

 

[CaughtInThe]

Harvard has become the prime example in this war against inclusion, free speech, and academic independence.

This

 

[Perotista]

The idea of Harvard seems to provoke hostility from trump, but not so when it comes to Yale.

One reason may be Harvard has been high profile in their opposition to Trump’s demands. Yale as far as I know hasn’t shown any opposition or at least publicly shown any opposition. Harvard shouted their opposition from the highest mountain tops, Yale has remained mum with their mouths closed.

 

[CaughtInThe]

And...

 

[reinaert]

The CIA's Yale?

 

[Peacenik]

Funny how the liberals now care about elitist ivy league schools.

Liberals are people who care about wrongdoing no matter who the victim is.

If liberals were like Birther/teaparty/magacult, America would still have racial segregation and there would be no government social assistance programs for the needy. America would be totally: "I Got Mine, The Hell With You."

 

[Along Came Jones]

Well, it helps that his VP got his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.

Perhaps more importantly, Yale was where he met his future wife, Usha Chilukuri.

Yesterday morning on my way to attend a grandson's elementary school graduation I listened to an intriguing NPR interview with George Packer. They discussed his deep dive article probing into Vance's ascending from Hillbilly to Vice President. At the end of the half hour I almost decided to subscribe to the Atlantic!

This is Packer's insight into Usha Chilukuri influence:

PACKER: . . . He called her his Yale spirit guide. Her name was Usha Chilukuri when he met her. She is the daughter of immigrants from India - from southern India - Hindu immigrants who settled in southern California and rose quickly to become very successful academics. And Usha was one of these daughters of immigrants who are just strivers, who rise, who work hard, who know what they want, who do a lot better, in some ways, than the kids who've been handed lots of advantages by generations of American citizenship. So she was already a creature of that world, the Ivy League. She had gone to Yale as an undergraduate. She got a master's degree from Cambridge in England. And so even though she was the immigrant daughter and he was the son of hundreds of years of native-born white Christian Americans, nonetheless, she was the one who became his guide about how to move in this world. Like, how do you - how...

MOSLEY: Were there really basic things that she taught him about moving through the world?

PACKER: So basic, Tonya. So basic. For example, he goes to this recruitment dinner at a fancy New Haven restaurant with these white-shoe lawyers, and he's just undone by the tableware. There's so many knives and forks and spoons. He doesn't know what they're for. He leaves the room and calls her, and she starts giving him very terse and exact instructions. Move from the outside to the inside. For the soup course, use the fat spoon. She has plans for him. She has spreadsheets and whiteboard instructions. She gets him to stop reacting with rage when he's cut off in traffic or flipped off in traffic. And at one point, she congratulated him on having successfully, quote, "course-corrected" his life.

I mean, there's, of course, a love affair, and there's a deep relationship, and they clearly fell madly in love, and that was it. They were on their way to marriage and children. But the fact that - because he came out of the Midwest and, in some ways, out of Appalachia, and she came out of this world, the Ivy League, she had to translate it for him. And that tells you something about how alien Americans have become to each other when they come from opposite sides of the education line. -- Understanding JD Vance's meteoric rise, from 'Hillbilly Elegy' to the White House, Tonya Mosley, NPR Fresh Air, 5/28/2025

 

[j brown's body]

Perhaps more importantly, Yale was where he met his future wife, Usha Chilukuri.

Yesterday morning on my way to attend a grandson's elementary school graduation I listened to an intriguing NPR interview with George Packer. They discussed his deep dive article probing into Vance's ascending from Hillbilly to Vice President. At the end of the half hour I almost decided to subscribe to the Atlantic!

This is Packer's insight into Usha Chilukuri influence:

PACKER: . . . He called her his Yale spirit guide. Her name was Usha Chilukuri when he met her. She is the daughter of immigrants from India - from southern India - Hindu immigrants who settled in southern California and rose quickly to become very successful academics. And Usha was one of these daughters of immigrants who are just strivers, who rise, who work hard, who know what they want, who do a lot better, in some ways, than the kids who've been handed lots of advantages by generations of American citizenship. So she was already a creature of that world, the Ivy League. She had gone to Yale as an undergraduate. She got a master's degree from Cambridge in England. And so even though she was the immigrant daughter and he was the son of hundreds of years of native-born white Christian Americans, nonetheless, she was the one who became his guide about how to move in this world. Like, how do you - how...

MOSLEY: Were there really basic things that she taught him about moving through the world?

PACKER: So basic, Tonya. So basic. For example, he goes to this recruitment dinner at a fancy New Haven restaurant with these white-shoe lawyers, and he's just undone by the tableware. There's so many knives and forks and spoons. He doesn't know what they're for. He leaves the room and calls her, and she starts giving him very terse and exact instructions. Move from the outside to the inside. For the soup course, use the fat spoon. She has plans for him. She has spreadsheets and whiteboard instructions. She gets him to stop reacting with rage when he's cut off in traffic or flipped off in traffic. And at one point, she congratulated him on having successfully, quote, "course-corrected" his life.

I mean, there's, of course, a love affair, and there's a deep relationship, and they clearly fell madly in love, and that was it. They were on their way to marriage and children. But the fact that - because he came out of the Midwest and, in some ways, out of Appalachia, and she came out of this world, the Ivy League, she had to translate it for him. And that tells you something about how alien Americans have become to each other when they come from opposite sides of the education line. -- Understanding JD Vance's meteoric rise, from 'Hillbilly Elegy' to the White House, Tonya Mosley, NPR Fresh Air, 5/28/2025

I wonder if she is responsible for changing him from believing that the hillbillies themselves are responsible for their economic plight, which he asserts in his book, to blaming neoliberal economic policy, which he asserts today.

 

[armycowboy]

Trump fights symbolic battles for his supporters to lap up. To many of his supporters, who have neither the means or the intelligence to attend an elite university, Harvard is a symbol of elitism, so that's who he goes after.

 

[Along Came Jones]

I wonder if she is responsible for changing him from believing that the hillbillies themselves are responsible for their economic plight, which he asserts in his book, to blaming neoliberal economic policy, which he asserts today.

I've not read Vance's book. All that I know about their relationship is what other people write about it. The articles I've stumbled upon certainly make Usha Vance a woman I'd like to know more about.

Perhaps this snippet might answer your wondering in the affirmative. As in "quite possibly so."

In his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Vance recounted how they initially connected through a class writing assignment in which they were paired as partners, leading him to develop a deep affection for her. “In a place that always seemed a little foreign, Usha’s presence made me feel at home,” he wrote, adding that she “always encouraged me to seek opportunities that I didn’t know existed.”

“Usha definitely brings me back to Earth a little bit, and if I maybe get a little bit too cocky or a little too proud, I just remind myself that she is way more accomplished than I am,” Vance said in an interview on the “Megyn Kelly Show” podcast in 2020. “I’m one of those guys who really benefits from having, like, a sort of powerful female voice on his left shoulder saying, ‘Don’t do that, do do that’—it just is important.” -- Who Is Usha Vance, J.D. Vance’s Wife?, Nik Popli, Time, 7/16/2024