Princess Elisabeth has completed first year of master’s degree but Trump administration’s crackdown may jeopardise studies
Princess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by Donald Trump’s administration on foreign students studying there could jeopardise her continued attendance.
The US president’s administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enrol international students on Thursday, and is forcing current foreign students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status in the US, while also threatening to expand the crackdown to other colleges.
“Princess Elisabeth has just completed her first year. The impact of [the Trump administration’s] decision will only become clearer in the coming days/weeks. We are currently investigating the situation,” said a spokesperson for the Belgian royal palace, Lore Vandoorne.
I’m sure this will work wonders for American soft power on the world stage.
Having a literal fucking queen with fond memories of America from her youth is political influence that money cannot buy. What an idiotic fumble.
What soft power? We pissed that all away months ago.
Fuck! I’m living in the past.
That’s soft power for the country, he doesn’t care what happens to the country
Also the effects aren’t immediate so he doesn’t understand nor care about them
Pish dude wouldn’t remember anyway if it did.
Someone told me this whole attack on Harvard is all because Harvard rejected Baron trump and while I haven’t looked into it that would make so much sense
I’ve looked into it, there really is not any indication Barron ever applied to Harvard, he is going to the same business school as his brothers and father, the likelyhood he applied anywhere else is low. The attack on Harvard can be recontextualized as a big liberal name in a big liberal state going against what he wants.
It’s retaliation for this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-trump-funding-antisemitism-columbia-b2733306.html So Harvard isn’t the only target, but they’re the ones that dared to publicly stand up against the bully and now the bully wants to make an example out of them. It’s basically a repeat of Ron Desantis war on higher education, but now on a national scale.
Here’s an overview of how other universities are faring: https://www.yahoo.com/news/tracking-trumps-war-on-elite-universities-which-schools-have-lost-funding-and-what-theyre-doing-about-it-200621655.html?guccounter=1
Why does he have the power to ban people from going to a private university?
what a toxic piece of shit, he is like the most obnoxious type of kid who screams, flails arms and legs when he loses a game and gets confronted about his shitty behaviour. except he is also the president of the US
And this is who the majority of the voters and those who didn’t turn up wanted as their president. Democracy at work, ladies and germs!
It does raise the question of why her royal highness could not deign to attend a Belgian university in the first place lol
Considering her future job as queen will involve a lot of diplomatic and ceremonial functions it does kind of make sense to me that you’d want her to gain some international experience.
Also on a personal level i’d imagine it is much easier to have some resemblance of a private life in a foreign country, especially at a prestigious institution where plenty of others share notable backgrounds, compared to going to a local university where everyone knows who you are. In a small country like Belgium you probably don’t even have much choices as to which university even offers a good program in your chosen field.
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Elisabeth initially studied at St John Berchmans College in Marollen, Brussels from September 2004 until August 2018. This marked a significant change in Belgian royal tradition, being the first time that a future Belgian monarch’s education has begun in Dutch
In May 2020, the Belgian Royal Court announced that Elisabeth would undertake military training. On 31 August 2020, Elisabeth entered the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, studying social and military sciences
Really seems like the worst candidate to make this accuse against
Elisabeth initially studied at St John Berchmans College in Marollen, Brussels from September 2004 until August 2018.
Something is off here. Ok, apparently the St John Berchmans College is a secondary school, but still I guess it should say 2014. Surely she didn’t start school when three yeard old.
(Not opposing your original point, this just caught my eye.)
I’d imagine that “school” in that context is used more broadly and encompases stuff like kindergarten.
A look at their website shows that they seem to also have a preschool and elementary school. It even currently says that you can enroll your kids born 2023 now “even if they don’t start in 2026”, which implies that starting 3 seems to indeed be a reasonable time to join their preschool program.
Because the rich go to university primarily to network.
correct answer
Because going to another country where she’ll learn to deal with another cultures is important and will be a huge part of her future. You raise a question when the answer should be easily understood.
If I were studying in the Untied States, I’d be afraid to stay there anyway
Honestly. If a couple bourgeoisie take some strays for Trump’s awful policies I’m not gonna shed a tear. Who the fuck cares about a Belgium queen? I care about the working class kid that isn’t gonna graduate. Fuck the Queen.
I care about the working class kid that isn’t gonna graduate.
There’s a near zero amount of working class kids studying abroad at Harvard
Do you think this policy is only going to be unique to Harvard? Your comment is ironic because it’s upvoted by the same people disagreeing with me that don’t care about a royal. But can’t see the the the bigger picture of who this hurts.
The entire criticism I have is that it shouldn’t take a royal for people to care and it’s absolutely silly to write an article around it. It makes the absolutely wrong point about who is harmed by this. It’s literally pro Trump. Use to trick his base into thinking the “elite” are the ones that will be hurt. They won’t. They will at most be inconvenienced.
But you somehow miss BOTH points. Somehow not getting my point of criticism of the article AND missing the larger picture of who these xenophobic policies will hurt the most.
It’s starts here. At the easiest place for American working class to say “yep, fuck the Queen”. And solidifies xenophobic policies into law. All while idiot liberals clutch their pearls as “the poor queen”.
You understand this policy as of now is only targeting Harvard. The article is about Harvard, don’t pre-cope imo
Yeah. Famously no other universities have been targeted. We definitely don’t have a green card holding student rotting in a cell for months at this point. With not a single charge of a crime against him.
Yeah. I’m sure this rich queen is the only victim. And Harvard has definitely been the only school targeted /s
I understand. But Trump seems to like being invited by royalty (at least UK royalty). Also visited her father when in Belgium during his 1st term. Probably not, but if he isn’t welcome because of this (among other things) next time, Trump could do something you do care about. He acts much more bourgeoisie than this princess (not yet queen) seems to act.
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But hey, at least db0 have their idiot right here
Even a stopped clock etc
I’m just glad we are keeping these thugs and criminals out of Harvard, it was clearly a huge problem.
Oh no! So anyway…
The king of America poses a minor threat to the princess of Belgium.
Does any of this make me get paid what im worth and left the fuck alone?
Tune in at 6pm PST for “Why do I give a shit?”
Sure has a lot of downvotes, I’m sorry but is there a nuanced view I can hear about that makes me forget that the only war is a class war and both of these motherfuckers are against me and anyone else that is reading this?
There’s a lot of libs that run off of identity politics here and are completely delusional in thinking that this somehow will connect with Trump voters since she’s white.
What lack of material analysis does to a mother fucker.
Why do we care about whether a princess can study in another country? Fuck princesses, they’re nepo baby billionaires plus a “divine right” to oppress people.
Hey, don’t put any random rich-ish person from Europe into the same US billionaire basket
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You’re either overestimating the Belgium crown’s power or underestimating the power of money. Also: “Belgium’s monarchy has topped the list as Europe’s poorest royal family, with the Belgian monarch King Philippe estimated to have a fortune of about €12.4 million”
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Never said she was poor, just not “more power than money can buy”.
Also, you’re paying more in taxes than many people’s yearly gross income so maybe you’re not so poor yourself so… Yeah…
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What do you mean not really? Minimum wage in most countries is below 25k/year. If you’re playing 40k in taxes, it means you’re earning a lot more than that. Median is somewhere around 40-50k, so you’re earning more than that as well. You have no idea how privileged you are if you think you have it bad.
You’re definitely earning more than me, but I’m also a freelancer. So much of at least Czech and Polish tax code is set up to make it far more expensive to run a small business or be self employed, than to work for a company
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It was most likely money that bought that power.
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Either not white enough for trump or hasn’t payed the orange shitnozzle enough homage.
Coin toss but odds are on not enough $$
On the one hand I wish anything bad that’s possible on anyone who’s royalty. On the other hand this might shine a light on Trumps bullshit in a way that even his supporters might start questioning.
even his supporters might start questioning
Lol nope. Have you ever met a trump supporter who didn’t have resentment towards higher education? I sure haven’t.
Luckily I live far away from them, so I haven’t met any. But yeah maybe I’m still too optimistic because of it.
You definitely have. Whenever people meet me they feel the need to tell me which American politicians they support for some reason. And a non-zero percent of them in essentially every country like Trump. And of Chinese people I’ve met it’s 100% for some reason lol
Why would your heart be so dark as to wiah bad on someone just because of who their parents are? That’s not okay.
they could stop being a royal though
She’s an adult, she has the choice. She can step away like Prince Harry for example. As long as she remains crown princess, she’s perpetuating royalty.
I guess something good came out of a really really shitty thing then.
A relative of King Leopold II, the number 4 ranked mass murderer. Look up Belgian Congo and that monarchy should have been torn down.
However, Krasnov’s revoking international students that apply to Harvard is plain stupid and very fascist/communist move.
fascist/communist
Come on. Aren’t we better than this? Your other points are correct but get out of here with this horseshoe bullshit
My grandmother was jailed by the Nazis and survived WW II. Post WW II, my relatives were on both sides, East Germany and West Germany. Tell me again how I know the similarities between the fascist and communist when it boils down to power and corruption. It’s not horseshoe BS.
Absolutely none of that has anything to do with the dictionary definition of communism. You can use “totalitarianism” if you can fit that into your vocabulary
It is plainly obvious you never entered a Warsaw Pact country.
It is plainly obvious that you have never read a dictionary or theory
I understand the theory, but you never experienced the reality.
I don’t know how to pound this into your thick skull. You’re obviously very dull. The people who abused your family had a system of government they called “communism”. IT WAS NOT COMMUNISM. YOU HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED COMMUNISM. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT COMMUNISM IS.
Future queen I guess means she is a princess. Just say that. I did not know Belgium still has vestiges of monarchy. That does put a damper on the judgment from Europe over the U.S. having Trump. Also can’t forget Leopold. Fuck that guy
Future queen I guess means she is a princess. Just say that.
“Future queen” is more specific than “princess.”
They call her Princess Elisabeth repeatedly in the article, but she’s not just “a princess.”
The princess is heir to the Belgian throne, as the eldest of four children born to King Philippe and Queen Mathilde.
Her siblings are also a princess and two princes, but she’s the eldest, and thus the only one that can currently be called “future queen.”
Well, then it’s crown princess
Yes but it’s all very dumb and made up, and I think they should just call her princess because I’m doubling down on a pointless opinion about pointless subject
I can respect that
Belgium’s monarchy is mostly ceremonial. Most of the power lies with parliament.
I get that. I still think it’s ridiculous. Not that echewing monarchy has done so well in the u.s. either.
Its a non-issue and not worth worrying about.
Would that I could control what I worry about including the governments of faraway lands. Also did I mention monarchies are very silly? I will still laugh at them as I weep at the tragedies here a at home
Your argument wasn’t that they are silly, useless or ridiculous. This was your argument:
That does put a damper on the judgment from Europe over the U.S. having Trump
You’re implying it is hypocrite. But it isn’t. European monarchies have close to no power over their parliaments. So your point is invalid because a monarchy would change almost nothing in how a European country is governed and how that ties with judgement towards Trump.
No, it wasn’t a direct comparison of government systems. I’m not here for the political theory. Perhaps I should have checked in with you personally before I shitposted about the silliness of monarchies.
Ah yes the good ol’ “i was trolling all along” argument
I guess you’re one of those doesn’t read the article types.
No I did, doesn’t change anything except exaggerate my dismay. Trump and the ivy leagues and the princesses can all just go away
