Trump Cheers ‘Amazing’ Affirmative Action Ruling: ‘What A Wonderful Day’

Former President Donald Trump predictably hailed the Supreme Court’s decision prohibiting colleges’ and universities’ from considering race in their admissions, calling the ruling an “amazing” result that will “keep [the U.S.] competitive with the rest of the world.”

Key Facts

• “This is a great day for America,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding, “We’re going back to all merit-based—and that’s the way it should be!”
• Trump made the comments hours after the conservative-majority court ruled that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina’s policies of taking race into account in their admissions processes violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection clause.