An honorary degree was conferred on Trump by Harvard, after which he delivered a Commencement Address.
Slightly Future News: On Thursday, May 29, 2025, President Donald J. Trump walked across the stage at Sanders Theater in Quincey, MA, to accept his Doctor of Literature (Litt.D.) from Harvard University, for a lifetime of literary achievement, most notably for his seminal work, The Art of the Deal, written in 1987. 
The honorary degree was conferred on Trump by Harvard president Alan Garber who, said Trump, “finally got his mind right” after banning future international students from enrollment at the nation’s oldest university.
Trump then addressed the student body and guests, expressing regret that he had missed the hooding ceremony that preceded the commencement, owing to security concerns. Trump appeared at the ceremony clad in all-white robes, in deference, he said, to “the southern states.” In lieu of the traditional mortar board, he also sported a red MAGA cap and a red silk Hermes necktie, which hung almost to the stage floor.
In receiving an honorary degree from Harvard, Trump is in good company. In 1776, Harvard’s governing board awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws to General George Washington. Other recipients in Harvard’s storied past include entertainment icons Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald and Oprah Winfrey. In his address, Trump noted that “that DEI shit is now a thing of the past at Harvard.”
Other presidential recipients include Thomas Jefferson, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower. “I know more about being president that any of these guys,” said Trump, citing war hero Eisenhower, whom Trump called a “sucker and a loser,” and Kennedy, whom he dismissed by saying “I prefer those who were not assassinated.”
In his 20-minute address, Trump touched on the 2020 election, in which he said he “got screwed,” but noted that “now I’m the one doing the screwing.” He touched also on his newly imposed restrictions on international students. “As of today,” barked the 47th president, Russian students at Harvard will have full access and use of dorms occupied by Ukrainian students. He also noted that he is revoking the Ukrainians’ student visas and that they’ll be deported to El Salvador.
“I’m thinkin’,” said Trump, “that maybe Harvard oughta’ take back the degrees of people like Bill Gates and Al Gore and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. I’m thinkin’ that those degrees were awarded in haste. I know more about awards than anybody.”
He went on to list the awards he is likely to receive over the span of his presidency, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Peabody, the Pushcart Prize, the Nobel Peace Prize, “for my work in ending the Russia-Ukraine war,” and some 7 Emmys, “from when they overlooked me before.”
As his speech wound down, Trump seemed reluctant to cede the stage, remarking that in future, honorary degrees would be influenced by Trump himself, who said he will have a hand in appointments to Harvard’s governing board. He named as future recipients Trump functionaries Elon Musk, Reichsfuhrer Stephen Miller, Border Czar Tom Homan and DHS Secretary and former swimsuit model Kristi Noem. “They’ll get their moment in the sun,” said Trump, “or else.”
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