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

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 relief, saying that a post-high school education should be “a ticket to a middle-class life.” He announced his administration would offer $10,000 in student debt relief for borrowers earning $125,000 or less and erase $20,000 in debt for recipients of Pell Grants, which the Department of Education gives to students who require more financial assistance.

The plan potentially provides relief to up to 43 million borrowers and cancels the full remaining balance for roughly 20 million borrowers, the White House said. Contrary to Guilfoyole’s claim, the debt cancellation does not apply to specific degrees, Insider said.

Online critics of Guilfoyle were quick to point out how her claims were baseless, hypocritical or insulting to millions of Americans, according to HuffPost. They noted that those who have taken out student loans have studied to be nurses, teachers, doctors or other disciplines that prepared them to contribute to society. They also said recipients include people who are the first in their families to attend college or whose parents saved and sacrificed to pay part of their college expenses.

Critics also were quick to remind Guilfoyle of the apparently easy money she has made being associated with former President Trump and his family.

While serving as a chief fundraiser for Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, Guilfoyle was secretly paid $180,000 a year by the campaign via the campaign manager’s private company, HuffPost reported in 2020. She also received $60,000 for giving a speech of less than 2½ minutes to introduce Trump Jr. at the Jan. 6, 2021 rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Insider added.