India, May 2 -- US President Donald Trump on Friday repeated his threat to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status, escalating an already running showdown between the school and his administration.

Trump had earlier ordered to cut $2.2 billion federal funding to Harvard, a move the school sued the administration for.

"We are going to be taking away Harvard's tax-exempt status. It's what they deserve!" Trump wrote on Truth Social from Palm Beach, Florida, where he is spending the weekend.

The move is unprecedented in US history, and Harvard has said that the administration has no legal basis to take such an action. But why did it all come to this?

Donald Trump wants to take away Harvard University's tax exempt status ever sin...