5 Questions for Trinity Washington’s Outspoken President and Trump Critic

When Donald Trump was first elected president in 2016, Trinity Washington University president Patricia McGuire didn’t hold back how she felt about his policies. She let him have it—publicly, sharply and often. The longtime president of the Catholic, minority-serving, predominantly women’s university in Washington, D.C., was an early critic of President Trump at a time when many campus leaders hesitated to wade into the political fray. She frequently critiqued the administration online and in interviews, including in a widely circulated and debated blog post on the university’s website in February 2017, just weeks into the new administration, in which she accused Trump of spreading a “remarkable torrent of false and misleading statements” and waging a “cruel and unreasonable war on immigrants.”