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More than one critic of U.S. President Donald Trump has observed that Trump seemingly has a tweet for everything. That is, whatever the situation today might be, one can find an old Trump tweet about it — or something similar — and more often than not, that tweet will be a criticism of how someone else dealt with that situation. That phenomenon came into play again in July 2020, when various news outlets reported that a new Trump administration directive might force many foreign students attending American colleges and universities to return to, or remain in, their home countries: Many commenters on social media were quick to share a tweet purportedly posted by Trump years earlier, in which he declared that When foreigners attend our great colleges & want to stay in the U.S., they should not be thrown out of our country: This was a genuine Trump tweet from August 18, 2015, as seen above. On that same date, Trump also seemingly tweeted his support for policies encouraging foreign students to come the U.S. and establish careers here: But as The New York Times noted, by July 2020 — with the coronavirus pandemic looming large as the primary political issue during a presidential election year — foreign students appeared to have become a pawn in a re-election campaign:
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