Biographer claims it's Trump who didn't get into Harvard

Trump biographer Michael Wolff has suggested that the president has turned his ire on Harvard because he didn't get into the school. The Daily Beast reported earlier this week that there's a running joke in the White House that Donald Trump has set his sights on the Ivy League institution because his son Barron couldn't get in.

- Gustaf Kilander, The Independent

But Wolff has suggested that it's Trump himself who failed to attend. Baron's mom, First Lady Melania Trump, said her son never applied to Harvard. Wolff presented his theory about the president Thursday on The Daily Beast Podcast to host Joanna Coles.

"It's also odd because so many of the people around Donald Trump went to Ivy League universities. Several of them went to Harvard Business School," Coles pointed out. "Obviously, JD Vance proudly went to Yale. So it does seem particularly odd, but perhaps he's also trying to stuff it to them."

"It's important not to lend too much calculation and planning to anything he does," Wolff responded. "But the other thing is that, by the way, he didn't get into Harvard. So one of the Trump things is always holding a grudge against the Ivy Leagues."