Posted on 01/09/2016 2:31:22 PM PST by conservativejoy
Donald Trump frequently tells crowds that he went to Wharton, as a credential to prove that he is intelligent:
"I went to the Wharton School of Business," he noted several times. "I'm, like, a really smart person."
"Why do you have to tell us all the time that you went to Wharton?†moderator Chuck Todd asked. "People know you're successful."
"They know it's a great business school," Trump replied.
You might be forgiven for thinking from this, as I did, that Trump has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He doesn't. He actually has an undergraduate degree for the two years he spent there. Yes, I said two years. Trump was not able to get into the Wharton School (undergraduate) when he applied to college. He spent his first two years at Fordham University, a respectable school, but no where near as rigorous as Wharton (either undergraduate or graduate). The circumstances of his admissions are not clear, but the Daily Caller suggested Trump may have used a family connection to gain admittance.
So instead of saying "I'm smart because I went to Wharton!" Trump should be saying, "I'm smart because I went to Fordham for two years, and then Wharton for my final two years!"
Trump apparently graduated Wharton without any honors. Like Obama, he refuses to release his grades.
Asked by The Daily Caller if Trump was willing to release his college records before he officially entered the race for the White House, a spokesman for Trump said Team Trump would "pass" on the opportunity in April.
In sum, Trump has no graduate degree from Wharton, or anywhere else, and there is no evidence that he was a distinguished student.
Why does any of this matter? Trump seems to be implying that he has an MBA from the top business school in America. He doesn't.
And worst of all, he doesn't talk like a smart person. He often doesn't even speak in complete sentences. He often speaks in a kind of abbreviated fashion that people have trouble understanding. Here is just one example:
Look, having nuclear-my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart-you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world-it's true!-but when you're a conservative Republican they try-oh, do they do a number-that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune-you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged-but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me-it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right- who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners-now it used to be three, now it's four-but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years-but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.
"Having nuclear"? "It would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are"? "Nuclear is powerful, my uncle explained that to me"? "the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years"?
This is how a child talks. A smart person doesn't have to repeatedly say that he is smart; Ted Cruz doesn't start every speech by mentioning he went to Harvard; a smart person doesn't use words like "stupid" or "dumb" to explain their opponents; and so on.
Donald Trump is not only pretending to be conservative, he's pretending to be brilliant. He's not, and it is comical how people listening to his Gollum-like stream of consciousness self-dialogues think that he is. Even when he explains how it is simply not possible for a Wharton graduate to accuse Megyn Kelly of menstruating.
(Abridged version originally published in American Thinker)
Trump attended Fordham University for two years. He then entered the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania as Wharton then offered one of the few real estate studies departments in U.S. academia. He graduated in 1968 with a bachelor of science degree in economics.
Source: Wikipedia
And now he’s a multimillionaire.
No kidding.
His answer and comments are completely unintelligible. Maybe he is in the early stages of Alzheimers.
It depends on the school.
I have yet to see one scintilla of evidence that homobama passed any of his classes - or even attended any for that matter - Columbia or Harvard.
I doubt that he really believes all the stuff he writes, but if you're on the payroll of a political campaign, you've got to try to earn your keep somehow. I'd be surprised if some posters on FreeRepublic aren't also paid political operatives.
I have a girlfriend who is from the northeast. She talks a mile a minute, bounces between three or four topics at once and will pick up something in one of my comments that sends her off on another topic.
She is brilliant, just assumes I am smart enough to hang with her and understand what she says.
What is your subject?
Agreed. I also back Cruz, but the article tells me nothing I need to know or care about concerning Trump.
And maybe you’re not desperate.
Ditto and then, ditto.
Imagine how successful he would have been had he gone there all four years.
I assume you or your girlfriend can figure out what Trump is talking about in the monologue in this article?
Considering the IQ of the average voter, he probably can’t say it enough.
traderrob6; conservativejoy
I stand with TED, too! But, Trump IS smart; it’s this article and its author that are STUPID.
Go Ted! Go Donald!
Let’s win this time, one way or another.
Oldplayer
When I was a mortgage banker (when it was still honorable), everyone that ‘went to Wharton’ always mentioned it.
It’s just one of those things that impressed other bankers.
Yes, you must be right. Definitely.
The writer of this article might really be the poster child for Penius Envy.
You can pick them out easily. Isara. conservativejoy, libbylu, VinL, 2DV. Editor-surveyor.
The Cruz article dog-whistle combined with the rabid anti-Trump posts on other threads.
They’ve cried wolf so often it doesn’t sway anyone, but has the opposite effect.
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