The Trump administration’s war with Harvard University continued on Monday as the Education Department and the Department of Health and Human Services launched a probe into the university’s law journal over its treatment of white contributors.

The investigation will focus on reports of the Harvard Law Review evaluating journal membership and article publication on the basis of race as opposed to merit. Civil rights law prohibits federal dollars from going toward entities that practice racial discrimination.

“Harvard Law Review’s article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on the basis of race, employing a spoils system in which the race of the legal scholar is as, if not more, important than the merit of the submission,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. “Title VI’s demands are clear: recipients of federal financial assistance may not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. No institution—no matter its pedigree, prestige, or wealth—is above the law. The Trump Administration will not allow Harvard, or any other recipients of federal funds, to trample on anyone’s civil rights.”

The Trump administration specifically cited reports that a Harvard Law Review editor said it was “concerning” that four out of five individuals who wanted to reply to an article on police reform “are white men.” Another exampled listed by the administration was an editor at the journal saying “that a piece should be subject to expedited review because the author was a minority.”

Anthony Archeval, the acting Director of HHS Office for Civil Rights, said that these kinds of actions could set back students.

“Law journal membership and publication are crucial achievements that build momentum for law students’ careers and shape legal scholarship,” he said. “This investigation reflects the Administration’s common-sense understanding that these opportunities should be earned through merit-based standards and not race.”

The Trump administration has been battling with Harvard over its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and handling of anti-Israel protests. Earlier this month, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard.

Last week, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Harvard was a “Far Left Institution” and “a threat to Democracy.”

Tuesday marks 100 days of President Trump’s second term.

President Trump has done an enormous number of amazing things, ranging from fighting DEI in every aspect of his administration to targeting university campuses that are hotbeds of antisemitism and leftism and wokeness, to having the Secretary of Defense try to fix all the problems at the Pentagon, to establishing DOGE, which is going through all aspects of government spending with Elon Musk and attempting to cut waste, fraud and abuse.

The president has issued more executive orders in his first 100 days than any president in history. He’s been incredibly effective in terms of pushing forward many parts of his agenda.

With all of that said, the polling right now for President Trump is not good. That is a reflection of public sentiment specifically regarding the economy. And that is all before the main effect of the tariff war that he has declared kicks in.

The good news for President Trump is that he’s blessed by his enemies, because they are awful. The American people hate the people that President Trump faces down even more than they dislike President Trump.

The same Washington Post/ABC News-Ipsos poll showing President Trump with a 39% approval rating also shows that 7 in 10 Americans say the Democratic Party is out of touch, while 6 in 10 say that about Trump.

So whatever the American people think of President Trump, they think even less about the Democratic Party.

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There’s a good reason for that, which is that the Democratic Party is so unbelievably unhinged. They are truly incompetent. It is amazing. It’s a target-rich environment for Democrats out there, particularly on the economy — but they cannot help themselves because they’re constantly running to the radical left of their own base. They’re saying idiotic things on a daily basis.

Over the weekend, J.B. Pritzker — the rotund governor of Illinois who has to be lowered into the Illinois capital by crane — was giving a speech in which he suggested that anybody who is a supporter of Trump ought to be harassed on the streets.

He declared:

Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I have now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and every microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.

Democrats are unhinged. Instead of them simply saying, “President Trump isn’t doing the job Americans want him to do,” which would be the smart way to actually approach this, they’ve decided instead that they’re going to go psychotic.

Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader and would-be House speaker, was in the middle of a protest when he started quoting Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, suggesting that America could break down between patriots and traitors. Presumably, the traitors in his mind would be Republicans. 

He quoted Grant saying:

Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots.

This is just psychotic, because he’s not even arguing about the supposed violation of law by the Trump administration. He’s not arguing about emoluments. He’s arguing here about the budget. He’s suggesting if you’re on the wrong side of the budget negotiation, then you are a traitor. 

President Trump is blessed in his opposition. He brings out the absolute worst in all of his enemies. Jon Ossoff, the soon-to-be ex-senator from Georgia, was trying to rile up the Democratic base, and said that he’d be in favor of impeaching President Trump for selling meme coins as a fundraiser. 

With all of that said, it is not good news for President Trump that he’s riding so low in the polls. That’s particularly true with independents; according to a brand-new Washington Post/ABC News-Ipsos poll, among independents, only 33% approve of Trump while 58% disapprove. Among independents who lean Republican, Trump’s approval has dropped from 76% to 63% since February.

There’s one reason for this drop, and that reason is not immigration. That reason is not foreign policy. That reason is the tariff war. The tariff war has absolutely crippled him.

According to that poll, only 31% of Americans approve of the recent turmoil in the stock market. Only 34% of Americans approve of tariffs on imported goods. Only 38% approve of his relations with foreign countries, only 39% approve of his work on the economy.

The problem, however, is that whenever a president is unpopular on one issue, it tends to drag him down on a wide variety of other issues. On immigration, which is a signal issue, his key issue since 2015, President Trump is succeeding. But when it comes to the economy and expanding the power of the presidency, 64% of Americans say that he’s going too far.

If you’re hoping for President Trump’s success, as I am — as someone who voted for him and fundraised for him — he needs to succeed on the economy because if he doesn’t, everything else goes down in flames.

I’m talking to people who are in the wholesale and retail space and they are freaking out about the tariffs. They’re seeing their orders cut while prices increase. They’re seeing the supply chains break and ships arriving empty. There are a lot of fears of actual shortages and price hikes. I know people who are in the import/export business and they’re getting hammered, some looking at the possibility of actual bankruptcy. The Magnificent Seven are off to their worst start to a year.

As I’ve said before, there are preconditions to fighting a successful trade war. You need to get ready for it just like a regular war. If you’re going to win a regular war, you need to make sure your supply lines are in place. You need to make sure that you actually have the material. You have to have your allies in place.

Meanwhile, Congress needs to get the tax bill through ASAP.

President Trump’s presidency now relies on a couple of things. First, ending this trade war or recalibrating it so that it will be more likely to be successful, which will require dramatic moves. Second, passing the tax bill. If neither of those things happens, then President Trump’s presidency will continue to spin out. That’s because as the economy goes, President Trump’s promise for all of his career has been that he’s a great businessman, and he would make sure the economy was okay. 

Getting the economy right is what President Trump needs to do if he wishes to make the American people happy with his presidency again, which will give him the political capital necessary to do everything else.

That would be fantastic, because he is getting so many other things dead-right.