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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is lying about his Wharton School degree.
Trump did not go to Whartons prestigious MBA program. Rather, he received an undergraduate degree offered by Wharton to University of Pennsylvania students. And Trump didnt attend Wharton for a full four years. Instead, he transferred there after spending his first two undergraduate years at Fordham, the Jesuit university in the Bronx.
Gwenda Blairs book on the Trump family reports that he gained admission as a transfer student only because of an interview with a friendly Wharton admissions officer who was one of Freddys old high school classmates. (Freddy is Donalds older brother.) Trump was also the son of one of the wealthiest New York businessmen of the era, the developer Fred Trump. That certainly couldnt have hurt his admission chances.
Writing in the New York Times magazine in 1984, William Geist reported that the commencement program from 1968 does not list him as graduating with honors of any kind, even though just about every profile ever written about Mr. Trump states that he graduated first in his class at Wharton in 1968.
http://www.salon.com/2011/05/03/donald_trump_wharton/
PJMcK
(22,031 posts)As I've said before, if Donald Trump tells you today is Saturday, check your calendar.
Colleges and universities cannot release students' records so Mr. Trump knows that there is no one who can contradict his claim to have been first in his class.
He lies about everything and to everyone.
Donald Trump is an idiot.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Purrfessor
(1,188 posts)Trump: Is there any place better to be on a Friday night in Florida than at a Trump rally? an Orlando Sentinel reporter tweeted. People in crowd shout, It's Thursday.
Undeterred by the reality check from his own supporters, Trump messed up again later in the speech.
Trump: Its Friday night, were having fun, a reporter from The New York Times tweeted. Crowd shouts: Its Thursday! Trump seems to think theyre just cheering. Gives thumbs up.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/latest-trump-fact-check-today-thursday-not-friday-article-1.2747896
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)klook
(12,154 posts)Somehow I'm reminded of this:
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)jimmil
(629 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)had a sandwich, and toured some more areas around Boston.
I've got to update my resume, leaving out everything after "I went to Harvard".
Warpy
(111,245 posts)Harvard toilets were uncommonly clean. If I got caught short shopping in Harvard Square, that's always where I went.
So yes, I also "went" to Harvard.
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)then you can say you were in the Air Force ROTC at Harvard.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Educational shortcomings are not going to hamper him much with his base...
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I had no idea that was an application enhancer. Lol.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)Whose LinkedIn account lists Harvard at the end if his education section.
Someone who works with him said he attended a 3-day Management Course there a few years back. Everyone knows that now and it just makes him look foolish.
MichiganVote
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whistler162
(11,155 posts)Harry Potter movie! Okay, I walked by the theater in London just before it started and had no idea what I was looking at until later..
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)This story was floating around years ago,and the Con Man went totally nuts and the interviewer a new one. Media has not touched this since.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Croney
(4,657 posts)groundloop
(11,518 posts)But damn wouldn't it be sweet to have some way to prove tRump has been lying all these years.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)maybe even the last in(to) his class.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)former9thward
(31,981 posts)Chakab
(1,727 posts)No way that a black guy could get into the Ivy League on his own steam when Trump couldn't do it himself.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Turns out Trump only got into the University of Pennsylvania because of his brother Freddy. And he never got into the actual Wharton graduate school of business, despite implying he not only graduated from there but graduated 1st in his class.
QED
(2,747 posts)Penn State is the public university.
I don't doubt that someone pulled strings to help him transfer to U Penn.
Chakab
(1,727 posts)the Ivy League on his own while Trump needed to exploit family connections. That's what gets under Trump's skin.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,233 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)He assumes everyone is as scummy as he is.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,233 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Not a Wharton MBA by any stretch.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)Next thing you know, you'll accuse him of outright dishonesty.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)All that's needed is to hear him talk for a few minutes.
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)I thought the Jesuits had higher standards.
Blue Idaho
(5,048 posts)He didn't graduate from Fordham...
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I think we may be on to a trend among GOP intellectuals.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)A man has three sons who entered three different religious orders: the oldest became a Dominican, the second a Franciscan, and the youngest a Jesuit.
On his deathbed, the father tells his sons, "I know you all have vows of poverty, but as a sign of your love for me, I want each of you to place one thousand dollars into my casket to be buried with me."
On the day of the funeral, the Dominican son steps up, places $1000 in the casket, and says, "This seems like a waste of money, since you can't take it with you, Dad. But with the special permission of my superiors, I'm doing as you requested, as a sign of my love."
Next, the Franciscan son approaches the casket and says, "You know I love you, Dad, but the needs of the poor are so great, I just can't let $1000 be buried with you. I hope you understand, now that you are in heaven. Please forgive me."
Finally, the Jesuit son comes forward and says to his brother, "Don't worry, Frank. I'll pay your share." Then he reaches into the casket, takes the cash left by his eldest brother, and puts in a check for $3000.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)We've hired quite a few people from Seattle University, which is a Jesuit university, and not a single one worked out. They just weren't will to follow company procedures.
classykaren
(769 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)Yes! First in HIS class. His own class. It's all about the self.
Maeve
(42,279 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)protect the integrity of the name------------------Hey Wharton can you release his grades, since you are a public institution, this will settle when he went, since the media believed this fraud as number 1 in 1968 at Wharton.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)Penn State is the public university.
I know that some Wharton students have come out and said that he doesn't represent THEM, it's unlikely that the university itself is going to come out and say he's lying. They don't want to get sued.
I read up on it and the undergraduate program is highly ranked also, but it's certainly not the same as getting an MBA there.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)I just would like to see his grades, really put him in a bind, the public is getting information about this hypocrite, it is amazing.
I am reading a book right now by David Cay Johnston , The Making of Trump, and I really hope that if he shows up for a debate, someone should ask him some questions and then when he tries to meanly mouth out of, ask him a follow-up questions----his dealing are just as shady as his degree
Honk-----------------for "Our Revolution"
TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)Of course, money wise could go anywhere, but he still had to get in. Being ivy league, University of Pennsylvania is still tough to get in, but not as tough as the other ivies. Its acceptance rate is 9.4%, whereas Harvard's is around 5%. But he must not have been able to get into Penn as a freshman, so he went to Fordham with an acceptance rate of over 40%.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)and the other qualifiers, they graduated, but still, I think he was and is still a slacker.
Thanks for the info
Honk-----------------for "Our Revolution"
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)http://www.salon.com/2011/05/03/donald_trump_wharton/
EleanorR
(2,389 posts)I wonder what the acceptance rate actually was when he applied?
https://www.ivycoach.com/ivy-league-statistics-by-college/
TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)dawn frenzy adams
(429 posts)Let's see your college transcripts?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)I kind of wish he'd release his transcripts so he could make Trump look like that much more of a fool.
Gothmog
(145,130 posts)This does not surprise me
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... about being a total jackass to get ahead in life financially.
I think he turned to alcohol eventually.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Freddy drank himself to death.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Hekate
(90,645 posts)...he digs the hole deeper.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)His parents then did the typical thing to a rich spoiled brat, they sent him to military academy.
SheriffBob
(552 posts)that his military schooling made him smarter than most military career soldiers.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)amandabeech
(9,893 posts)Considering his brother, maybe that's one thing that he isn't fibbing about.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Watching Freddy drink himself to death must not have been pretty.
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)Thank heavens he didn't take anyone else with him.
My Mom didn't drink.
It is most assuredly not pretty.
Raine
(30,540 posts)and unknowledgeable I doubt he was in his classes very often.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)If he has the attention span of a two-year-old, along with problems staying on track and absorbing information, how did he ever graduate?
Plus, he doesn't talk good
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)He won't go down on this piddly crap, I guarantee it.
He's already tanking largely because of the Khans and his continuing stupid statements since then. Hoist on his own petard.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)It would be disqualifying for any other candidate. Nonetheless you are correct that there are SO many other contenders for what will take him down.
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Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts). You know when I see someone listing him/her self as a graduate of the...........
Wharton School of Business, my immediate thought is that they are an MBA. If a person holds a BS or BA it is usually from the University of Pennsylvania.
It seems he is misleading the public, OMG I can't believe he would do this.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)And Trump knows that. Plus he was never "top of his class" in any school he ever attended.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)bile.
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)How did you find DU in the beginning? I am very curious.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)amandabeech
(9,893 posts)They're one in the same, folks.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Otherwise you'd just say Penn if referring to an undergrad degree--which is all he has. Regardless, he was definitely not "top of his class" or even an honors student at ANY school he attended. He flat out lied. And then there is the hypocrisy of him bashing affirmative action when he benefited from the most common form of affirmative action: that for the children of the rich and powerful. His big brother Freddy relied on his connections to get his marginal student of a brother a transfer into Penn.
BTW, the phrase is "one and the same," not "one in the same."
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)Here's the Wharton website.
https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/
Go there. About 1/3 of the way from the top on the right side is the link to the bachelor's program.
Read all about it.
I stand corrected on my usage. It slips when I see people posting incorrect information.
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... "Trump is Lying" ...
... works for absolutely every occasion ...