The Donald gets duped: Harvard Lampoon tricks Trump with phony endorsement — and he’s not happy about it
The Donald's been duped.
In what's been called a "a prank of presidential proportions," the staff at Harvard University's humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon, targeted Donald Trump for their latest prank in a longstanding rivalry with the University's daily student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson.
Trump, the real-estate mogul turned Republican presidential frontrunner, inadvertently became the center of the rivalry when an article, titled “Crimson Endorses Trump for President” and signed “The Crimson Staff,” appeared on a phony site purporting to be the Crimson's last month.
The phony endorsement came with an accompanying photo of Trump surrounded by students signaling a thumbs up all around. Trump was apparently duped into posing for the picture with the staff of the Lampoon while he was seated on the famed Crimson president's chair, stolen from the newspaper's headquarters earlier this summer. The photo appears to have been taken at Trump Tower in New York.
