Trump University, Now With Tax Money

As if the federal bureaucracy didn’t have enough to do, Donald Trump says that in a second term he’d create a new tuition-free online university to “compete directly” for college students. It would award bachelor’s degree equivalents “that the U.S. government and all federal contractors will henceforth recognize.” Step right up to enroll in Trump University 2.0.

Mr. Trump unveiled the idea recently in a video on Truth Social, and the plan includes all of the careful policy thinking typical of a video on Truth Social. “Whether you want lectures on ancient histories, or an introduction to financial accounting, or training in a...