Trump White House: Columbia students TIPPED OFF about Oct. 7 attack?!



The Trump administration has launched a full-blown war on Ivy League schools refusing to comply with the law. Between the University of Pennsylvania’s Title IX violations and Harvard’s refusal to address anti-Semitism on campus, the battle against rampant academia-spawned wokeism continues to rage.

On Thursday, White House policy strategist May Mailman dropped a bombshell allegation — and it makes the goings-on at UPenn and Harvard look tame. Columbia University students were prepared for Hamas’ October 7 attack.

On a recent episode of “Blaze News: The Mandate,” May Mailman joined Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson to share the harrowing details as well as the direction she sees universities going now that Trump is in office.

 Trump White House: Columbia Students TIPPED OFF About Oct. 7 Attack! | The Mandate | 5/8/25

“Columbia was the epicenter of anti-Semitism around October 7,” says Mailman.

She’s right — Columbia University was the first Ivy League school to launch significant pro-Palestinian protests during the 2023-2024 academic year. The April 2024 encampment that led to the occupation of Hamilton Hall marked the first major, widely publicized protest that catalyzed the broader movement.

Perhaps that’s because the school's Palestinian activist groups were privy to information the rest of us weren’t.

“Before October 7, their student groups were tweeting basically to get excited for October. They knew that this attack was going to happen before it happened. That's how much terrorism was embedded in Columbia,” says Mailman, noting that the protests were so violent, NYPD had to be called in to break up the chaos at Hamilton Hall.

Given that the university is located in a liberal city with open campus access to outsiders, including student visa holders, the anti-Semitism at Columbia is not really all that surprising.

However, hope is on the horizon, says Mailman.

“Students should not be victims of racism in their admission, in their experience on campus, and so I think that is the type of change you're going to see — structural changes so that we don't have these instances in the Columbia library to begin with.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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‘Stop discriminating against students’: Obliterating wokeness one Ivy League showdown at a time



Former President Joe Biden made some seriously woke DEI policy changes that have left President Trump with quite the rainbow mess to clean up. And he must make his own lasting policy changes that will change American culture for the better.

“Nobody wants to discriminate on the basis of race,” Trump policy strategist May Mailman tells Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight,” adding, “How can you change the Overton window and change the culture in order to cement some of these things in?”

While these Biden-era woke policies are fighting to stay alive under Trump, the president has wasted no time making an example out of America's Ivy League institutions leading this fight.


“Harvard was issued a list of very reasonable demands, like stop discriminating against your students,” Mailman explains, noting that these policies encouraged anti-Semitism. “Anti-Semitism is a symptom. It shows that there’s a problem, but it is not itself the disease.”

“If you treat white people as hierarchically worse than other people, that will result in anti-Semitism. So the things that we’re asking them to do are actually what the Supreme Court has asked them to do, and Harvard decided to say, ‘Get lost,’” she continues.

However, Harvard has quickly learned that starting a fight with the federal government will not end well for them.

“The federal government gives you things. That’s all it does. It just gives you things,” Mailman says of the government’s relationship with universities.

“Ultimately, it’s going to be a very clear choice. Do the right thing, do well by your students, and continue to have access to research money and other benefits, or don’t,” she continues, adding, “You can’t discriminate against people, and you’re going to start seeing that more and more and more.”

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Exclusive: Top White House adviser reveals Trump's greatest achievement in the first 100 days



Senior policy strategist May Mailman revealed her proudest achievement during President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office during an exclusive sit-down interview with Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson.

Mailman told Peterson that in addition to the secure border, which she says is Trump's most obvious accomplishment, she has sensed a real "culture shift" with the new administration in office.

"I think there really is a culture shift," Mailman told Peterson. "I almost hate the word 'DEI,' because nobody knows what it means, but I would say you've seen companies change their policies to no longer discriminate. In the government, every single office that is responsible for discriminating is closed. It's gone. Those people have been let go."

'I think that that cultural change is something that we've really seen shifted from the government and externally.'

The culture war was a central focus of Trump's campaign and now of his second term in office. The president signed several DEI-related executive orders in the first 100 days. These directives have also had a trickle-down effect across federal agencies that have worked to uproot discriminatory policies that valued one's identity over merit.

"If we can have the equality in our country that is sort of the root basis of our nation's promise, that you should be treated as an individual, that you should be given opportunity based on who you are, that change, what more could you ask for?" Mailman said. "I think that that cultural change is something that we've really seen shifted from the government and externally."

"To do business with the government, to be a contractor, you can't discriminate against people," Mailman added. "You're going to start seeing that more and more and more, and I think it will be a legacy item."

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