#Trump threatens funding for schools promoting ‘radical left indoctrnation’

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday ramped-up his attacks on US schools, threatening to remove federal funding or tax exemptions for institutions promoting “radical left indoctrination.”

In a series of tweets aboard Air Force One shortly before arriving in Miami, the president fired his latest salvo in an escalating war with the nation’s schools as his administration pushes to have them fully reopen by the fall amid a worsening coronavirus pandemic.

“Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education,” Trump said in a tweet.

“Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status and/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!” he continued.

In his Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore last week, President Trump pointed to leftist ideology gripping the American education system as the reason for nation-wide assaults targeted at monuments of historical figures.

“The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets of cities that are run by liberal Democrats, in every case, is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions.

“Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains. The radical view of American history is a web of lies — all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition,” he said.

Last Friday, the president doubled-down on his threats to cut funding to public schools who continue to educate students through virtual classes as the pandemic worsens, calling it a “terrible” alternative.

“Schools must be open in the Fall. If not open, why would the Federal Government give Funding? It won’t!!!” he tweeted.

The president said he would put pressure on the nation’s governors to reopen schools as the number of coronavirus infections in the US continues to hit record highs, while also blasting new guidelines from the CDC as “very impractical.”