Student petition university to revoke Trump's degree

A petition to revoke a honorary degree issued to US president, Donald Trump by students and graduates of Lehigh University has been instituted. 

The students and graduates of the University are urging the school to revoke Trump's honorary degree after his comments that "both sides are to blame for the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia," last weekend.

The change.org petition was started by Kelly McCoy, a recent graduate of the private university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 

Trump received an honorary degree from the school after he served as commencement speaker in 1988.

The petition says Trump fails to uphold the school’s principles, which include celebrating diversity and rejecting discrimination.

Lehigh trustees previously received a petition to revoke Trump’s honorary degree in January.