India, June 1 -- Amid Donald Trump's ongoing push to limit international student enrollment at Harvard University, biographer Michael Wolff has suggested that the former president's long-standing resentment toward elite universities may stem from a personal grudge.

Appearing on The Daily Beast podcast, Wolff, who has authored four books about Trump's time in the White House, referenced the popular theory that Trump is targeting top-tier institutions because they did not accept his son Barron.

However, Wolff claimed the animosity might go back even further, alleging that Trump himself was unable to get into Harvard. "It's important not to lend too much calculation and planning to anything he does. But the other thing is that, by the way,...