The President of the United States takes dead aim at the greatest university in the world
Today it's UCLA, but tomorrow the entire UC system, including UC Davis, will be on the President's narrow-minded radar
I knew it was only a matter of time before Donald Trump would tire of trashing the Ivy League and instead aim his wrecking ball at the greatest system of higher education in the world, the University of California.
Specifically, UCLA.
That's just for starters, of course.
Sooner or later, he'll get around to charging UC Davis with all sorts of crimes against humanity, especially when he realizes that so many of the agricultural advances that have helped to feed a hungry world were developed by UC Davis scientists who do not wear MAGA hats while tending to their crops or working in their labs.
Who knows, maybe the President is just upset because our Blue State football team last year crushed Red State opponents from Texas, Utah, Idaho and Montana. Probably having a Woke State beat a MAGA State in a man's sport is more than Donald Trump's bone spurs can bear.
Of course, our dear President was stuck on the East Coast during his college days and didn't have the educational opportunities that I and so many other Californians had when it was time to leave home and go to college.
As an undergraduate at UC Davis, I had the extreme joy of working 20 hours a week in the Plant Pathology greenhouses where so much of this cutting-edge research was taking place. I was at the very bottom of the food chain - watering plants, sweeping up, hanging dire warning signs on the front door when the entire greenhouse was about to be fumigated and going home every evening with dirt under my fingernails from working with some of the best soil - and people - in the country.
As a political science major who didn't like classrooms, libraries or term papers, working in the greenhouse provided me with a great breath of fresh air, literally, as I watched things grow right before my eyes.