Before you get too emotionally involved with the headline, the seven universities in question are all in… Australia! (https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/us-cuts-funding-for-seven-australian-universities/video/e1e0ee8ee04bd481ee4a15c6ae6722aa)
Australian academics have pleaded with their government to “prevent any further grant cuts.” Well, how are they expected to do that?
More to the point, what was America doing, funding Australian universities, in the first place? I think President Trump probably couldn’t get a sensible answer to that question. I doubt there is one.