As Donald Trump's war on Harvard intensifies, he is transferring his message with seemingly bids for new allies - besides punishing the institution, he also promises to elevate the working class.

In a Monday article on socializing in truth, Trump proposed donating $3 billion to trade schools across the country. "For the United States, this is a huge investment and very needed!!!" he wrote.

With that money, he told reporters at the White House on Wednesday: “You can have the best trading school anywhere in the world.”

It is unclear how Trump’s proposal will work, where or how the money comes from. The Trump administration did not answer questions.

But while the program may not be tenable, some education experts say that conducting research at the world’s wealthiest universities and opposing support for low-cost trade schools is a shrewd move.

“Politically, this is very effective,” said Nat Malkus, associate director of educational policy at the U.S. Corporate College, a right-leaning think tank. “He made a social post about the truth about where his grace lies in a very short post, not in Harvard’s elite international metropolis, but with everyday Americans.”

Trump blew up elite colleges for years, a failed institution that wasn't enough to help students avoid debt and pick on Harvard even before the current conflict. Recently, the Trump administration accused Harvard of failing to address anti-Semitism and enacted a mission of publicity reform for the entire university to be recognized and hired.

When Harvard refused the request, the government cut nearly $3 billion in research funding and tried to terminate its ability to host international students.

The push this week is a new strategy: trying to build public support by suggesting Harvard’s success, which is at the cost of Americans.

Most of the federal government’s cuts to Harvard are used in health research, such as studies on cancer and lung diseases, and it is crucial for universities to defend. Harvard did not respond to a request for comment. Harvard President Alan Garber raises challenges in NPR interview Trump's approach.

“The real question is how much value the federal government has gained from research spending,” he said. “There are a lot of practical research that shows that the rewards for the American people are huge.”

The Trump administration defends layoffs. “U.S. universities committed to their academic missions, protecting campus students and complying with all federal laws have no problem getting generous support from the program,” Education Department spokesman Madi Biedermann said in a statement.

Improved vocational education has always been an urgent task in democratic and Republican governments. Trump talked about this at the same time as his search for a return to manufacturing jobs. Last month, he signed an executive order directing federal agencies to coordinate national strategies on vocational and technical education.

During the confirmation hearing, Education Secretary Linda McMahon emphasized the value of such schools. “Our profession and proficiency training are not the default education; it can be frontal and central, so students who tend to move in this direction should actually be encouraged to do so,” she said.

Jerome Grant, CEO of Global Technology College, one of the largest private chains in trade schools, said he had met with education department officials to increase support for vocational education, but not at the expense of other universities. He said he was not concerned with money, not helping teenagers and young people see the benefits of trade schools.

“We are not competing with Harvard or anything else, we don’t have beef from any four-year school,” Grant said. “We just believe that for many children in the United States, a four-year school should not be considered the only path they have after high school.”

The idea that all students should work hard to get a degree from a traditional four-year university in the context of economic changes and increased student debt has established bipartisan consent, i.e., other educational options Should be supported, too.

Trade schools focus on preparing students for certification in specific careers without general education courses or traditional university electives. Therefore, they usually take less time to complete and are cheaper than a four-year college. Some trade schools are located in community colleges and are mainly funded by state and federal student aid.

However, many trade schools are also considered for-profit universities, a field of higher education that has been scrutinized in the past because they failed to deliver on their promises to their students.

Education policy experts say the “a big beauty bill” that Trump urged House Republicans to pass could undermine school regulations and harm working students. As currently drafted, if their students graduate and expand Pell Grant to students in short-term and unaccredited educational programs to Pell Grant inadequate use, the regulations responsible for the vocational training program will be returned. This will also limit the qualifications of part-time students granted by Pell, many of whom are working class.

Neither the White House nor the education department answered questions about the regulations.

Jason Altmire, president of the College of Vocational Education and University, which represents private trade schools and for-profit colleges, said his organization welcomes reforms in the House bill and Trump recommends pumping more money into trade schools.

Altmire, a former Democratic House member of Pennsylvania, called the “truth social post” to “continue many of the good things President Trump has done and said the school he represents.” (The former chief policy officer of the Altmire group has been invited to become the country's top higher education official.)

He said his for-profit school departments, whether career or degree-granting, were unfairly damaged based on some extreme examples, and they represent the way forward for many.

"I don't see it as a zero, but I do see it as a narrative that changes the country's priorities in higher education," he said.

Carolyn Fast, director of higher education policy at the progressive think tank Century Foundation, also supports vocational education and questioned the crackdown on it with schools like Harvard.

“It is a false narrative to say that we are funding these universities, and that means we don’t offer people a good vocational education,” she said. “Both are good goals we have.”