Trump Claims International Harvard Students 'Can't Add 2 and 2': 'How Do They Get In?'

While speaking to press inside the Oval Office, President Donald Trump claimed international Harvard students are taking remedial math courses at the prestigious university.

On Friday, President Trump affirmed to a reporter that, while he wants the best and brightest from around the world to attend Harvard and other U.S. universities, many of the international students cannot do basic math.

"A lot of the people need remedial math. Did you see that? Where these students cant add two and two, and they go to Harvard?" Trump prompted. "They're gonna teach remedial math at Harvard," the president reiterated.

"Now, wait a minute, so why would they get in? How can somebody that can't add or has very basic skills, how do they get into Harvard? Why are they there?" Trump continued before alleging the international students in remedial math are the same ones protesting on campus.

"You see those same people picketing and screaming at the United States and screaming. They're antisemitic or they're something," he stated. "We don't want troublemakers here... When Harvard comes out with a statement that they're gonna teach some of their students remedial math, that's basic math, uh, that's not the deal," Trump added.

On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered her department "to terminate the Harvard University's Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification," which would ban foreign students from enrolling and force current international students to transfer or lose their legal status in the country.

Harvard College filed a complaint early Friday, prompting a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from revoking the university's ability to enroll international students and sponsor international scholars.

The university's administration also filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to immediately halt Noem's order, claiming it would cause significant and irreversible damage to the university and its students.