Trump alleges conspiracy in cancellation of daughter Tiffany’s Georgetown graduation due to Covid

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump has claimed that his daughter Tiffany Trump’s graduation ceremony at Georgetown University was cancelled not because of Covid-19, but as part of a conspiracy to suppress her academic achievements.

He claimed that the university was upset about her academic brilliance, even though the ceremony was held online due to the pandemic.

Trump claims conspiracy behind cancellation of graduation

Trump, on Wednesday, November 19, during his appearance at a Saudi-US investment forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington, accused Georgetown University’s law school of canceling graduation ceremonies five years ago as a way to avoid highlighting his daughter Tiffany’s academic success. 

“She finished really right at the top, and we were proud of you. And she was so proud, and her graduation got canceled because of Covid — but I say if her name was something else, they probably wouldn‘t of canceled it,” Trump said.

“They didn‘t like that she did so well in school. They weren‘t happy about it,” he continued. That’s when he claimed that Georgetown had “canceled” the graduation ceremony because Tiffany had been “a great student.”

Tiffany Trump graduated without honors

The Independent found that, although Tiffany Trump graduated from Georgetown University Law School with a Juris Doctor degree that year. 

But a review of the school’s online records shows that she did not earn cum laude honors with her degree, nor was she listed as being part of her class’ Order of the Coif honorees, a legal educational honor afforded to the top 10 percent of law school classes.

Also, her name was not on a roster of students who were part of the school’s various law reviews and legal journals.

Tiffany Trump's virtual graduation ceremony

At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, Georgetown was one of the many American universities and secondary schools that moved to virtual instruction to avoid the risk of students gathering in large groups and spreading the then-novel coronavirus, for which no treatment or vaccine would be available until much later in the year.

According to The Georgetown Voice, the university’s student newspaper, the class of 2020 graduated virtually in a series of online ceremonies from May 13, 2020, to May 17, 2020.

The law school’s graduation ceremony took place on May 16 as part of what the student newspaper called “Conferral of Degrees in Course unto graduates of all Main Campus, Medical, and Law Center programs.”

At the time, university president John DeGioia said it was “a source of consolation and inspiration” that the students had “accepted responsibility for caring for everyone around you” and pledged to hold an in-person ceremony to honor Class of 2020 graduates at a later date.