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Monday, May 11, 2026

Kimberly Guilfoyle claims ‘lazy’ grads with ‘basket weaving’ degrees will get student loans forgiven - The Mercury News

Trump loyalist Kimberly Guilfoyle offered a curious complaint about President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loans by saying it was “communist” and that it would benefit “lazy” students who received supposedly useless degrees in fields such as “basket weaving.”

“Enough of this nonsense! I mean, paying off loans for people that don’t want to — they wanna have some bizarre basket-weaving degree,” Guilfoyle said on Newsmax Monday, HuffPost reported.

Guilfoyle, the ex-wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom who became a Fox News personality and is the fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., also called the plan “unfair” and “un-American,” Insider also reported.

“And they want all of us, people watching across this country, hard-working men and women, to subsidize their laziness and their inability to even try to contribute to society,” said the San Francisco-born Guilfoyle, who got her undergraduate degree at UC Davis and her law degree at University of San Francisco.

Guilfoyle: Paying off loans for people they want to have some bizarre basket weaving degree and they want all of us to subsidize their laziness and their inability to even try to contribute to society pic.twitter.com/DXOuaTTsmQ

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 29, 2022

With her comments, the former San Francisco prosecutor has joined a chorus of conservative politicians and pundits criticizing the Biden administration for forgiving student loans.

Earlier this month, Biden fulfilled a campaign promise to provide student debt...



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