Former President Donald Trump reportedly said college students are ‘going to behave’ if he returns to the White House (Picture: Getty Images)
Ex-President Donald Trump behind closed doors reportedly promised to deport pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses.
Trump made the vow, should he win the November presidential election, to donors in a roundtable event in New York earlier this month, participants told The Washington Post.
‘One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country,’ Trump allegedly said on May 14.
‘You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave.’
Pro-Palestinian protesters tell the media they are ‘hoping for a ceasefire immediately’ in the University Yard at George Washington University (Picture: EPA)
Trump said he would defeat the ‘radical revolution’ after a donor lamented over pro-Palestinian students and professors behind the demonstrations possibly holding US government positions in the future.
‘Well, if you get me elected, and you should really be doing this, if you get me reelected, we’re going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years,’ Trump said according to the anonymous donors.
The former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee also praised, as he has numerous times before, New York cops for breaking up protests at Columbia University and said similar demonstrations in other cities need ‘to be stopped now’.
Trump joked to donors that the group at the private event included ‘98% of my Jewish friends’, The Post reported on Monday.
Ex-President Donald Trump called pro-Palestinian students and professors participating in demonstrations part of a ‘radical movement’ (Picture: AP)
In public, Trump has gone back-and-forth regarding if Israel should continue waging its war in Gaza. But in the New York meeting, Trump reportedly said he backs Israel in ‘its war on terror’.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Metro.co.uk on the report.
Karoline Leavitt, who is the campaign’s national press secretary, told The Post: ‘When President Trump is back in the Oval Office, Israel will once again be protected, Iran will go back to being broke, terrorists will be hunted down, and the bloodshed will end.’
Trump has been spending a significant amount of time in New York, where his ongoing hush money criminal trial is set to have closing arguments begin on Monday. On Thursday, he held a rally in the deep blue borough of the Bronx, in which he again attacked migrants and claimed they are ‘giving America the middle finger’.
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