(Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all federal funding will stop for colleges and schools that allow "illegal" protests and that agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from. "American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested," Trump said in a Truth Social post.

Donald Trump declared through Truth Social on Tuesday that funding for universities that allow "illegal protests" will be pulled under his administration. The post Trump Threatens To Cut ‘All Federal Funding’ to Universities That Allow ‘Illegal Protests’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Donald Trump has taken to social media to warn protestors that they could be sent back to their own country or imprisoned, while also taking aim at schools and colleges

Nearly 300 protesters gathered outside the Tesla dealership in Owings Mills on Saturday, waving homemade signs as drivers slowly passed by beeping their horns in a show of support.

Elon Musk will attend President Trump's joint address to Congress on Tuesday night in another public display of his influence in the administration.

Protests against billionaire Elon Musk are gaining momentum in the United States and Europe. Demonstrators are picketing Tesla showrooms in response to Musk’s role in the reforms of US President Donald Trump,