Former President Donald Trump has said he will expel pro-Palestine student demonstrators from the United States if he is re-elected in November, The Washington Post reports.

Speaking to a room full of campaign donors, the Republican presidential hopeful promised to crush pro-Palestine protests that have sprung up on college campuses across the US in recent weeks.

“One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave,” Trump said at the event on May 14, according to people present who requested anonymity.

“If you get me elected, and you should really be doing this, if you get me re-elected, we’re going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years,” he reportedly added.