This is The Guardian.

Today, Harvard sues the Trump administration, but can it win in the Court of Public opinion.

Donald Trump styles himself as a kind of American king,

but he has this quality that's usually reserved for the court jester,

of pointing out the truths of his country that are often buried in feel-good American myths.

Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake.

Putin's a killer.

A lot of killers.

We've got a lot of killers why you think our country's so innocent.

I'm doing what I want to do with respect to the tariffs.

I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up.

Kissing my ass. Ed Pil telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass.

Ed Pilkington, Guardian US's chief reporter, has been covering the Trump administration's

battle these past weeks with Harvard University, and he sees in that fight one of Trump's

court jester moments. I think back to when I was a kid growing up in London

at a time when the cliche that everyone talked about in terms of America

was that it was a classless society,

very much promoted by America itself,

you know, the whole talk about the American dream,

that anyone can make it in America, a complete meritocracy.

Whereas Britain was seen as absolutely infected by class.

For Ed, Trump is pointing to something true about class in America.

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