Trump's ban on foreigners at Harvard leaves 5 million unused notebooks.

Donald Trump's ban on Harvard accepting foreign students has left more than 5 million notebooks unused in the upcoming school year.

The measure, announced by the US president, was met with reservations by the stationery and gift-wrapping industry, as it would mean a significant drop in the number of notebooks that would no longer be covered or labeled "so their owners don't lose them."

Trump just banned Harvard University from enrolling international students as punishment for them standing up to him.

All current international students will be forced to leave. pic.twitter.com/BqMali4gp2

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 22, 2025

Trump is leaving Harvard without a student

“My daughter spent three hours carefully covering each notebook and aligning the labels with a ruler and set square,” said María del Refugio, a native of Veracruz and mother of a daughter who had been accepted to the prestigious Ivy League to study psychology.

Following the draconic ban, the Harvard campus has reportedly appeared deserted: blackboards devoid of formulas and professors with no one to scold, precisely because there are no foreign students, who accounted for 80% of the institution's enrollment.

My parents still have several books covered in the same way they must have been kept back then so they wouldn't be arrested. If you were lucky, they'd ask you to burn them. Others were tortured by soldiers, and others were never seen again "for being communists." #ForbiddenToForgetSV pic.twitter.com/YU0rqY6WSv

— Cardinal Sonidito🫧 (@biejalagarta) January 11, 2021

“He even put stickers and contact paper on them. Now what? Do we use them as napkins?” another Coahuila mother asked upon learning of the New Yorker's decision.

For its part, the Trump administration defended the measure as a strategy to "protect American academic values ​​and prevent dishes across the country from becoming increasingly spicy."

To continue the laughs: a couple was watching fireworks at home and one ended up flying through their balcony.

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