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)
You can tell I didn’t go to Wharton.
Please substitute penis for the typo penius.
I think it is very good that Cruz supporters are critical of Trump.
I believe Trump will win (I am biased I admit) but to have a large portion of very serious Republicans oppose Trump through the race, is making him really compete.
I think he is becoming quite strong, as a result.
That’s the FINAL STRAW, I’m voting for Rubio.
(LOL)
This article reeks of fear
“Except, he likes to tell us at every chance, how smart he is and how great Wharten is.”
Both of which are TRUE!! Maybe you can do basic math to come to the same conclusion:
536 Billionaires in U.S. Out of a population of 320,000,000 = 0.000167 of 1% of the population. If you are one of those 0.000167 percenters by all means... please enlighten us all of the definition of “smarts”!!!
Yet Hussein is brilliant genius with not one damn transcript available.
WOW Trump says he went to Wharton and he actually went to Wharton.
Journalism is a dead art
I know. I listen to his talks and I cannot understand a word he says. He should shut up and listen to his intellectual betters like el Jebbe. /s
There is an american general who suffered from Trumps problem. Just simple and plain spoken. Wrote orders for the moment, not for history, attempting to make sure he would not be misunderstood. Some guy lost in the mists of time by the name of Grant.
You've got it bad.
Really, really bad!
The Trump quotes reek of incoherence.
He was a multimillionaire before he went to college. An d daddy bailed him out a couple of times.
Sure but I have an advantage. I heard the whole speech, not just the cherry picked part.
He’s talking about Iran, our sorry deal with them, his uncle who first discussed the dangers of nuclear powers with him, his uncle’s qualifications to talk about it, and how really poorly the US did in the negotiations.
Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.
So, Ed, how many billions in assets are on YOUR financial statement?
Oh, NONE !!??
Then STFU !!!
And Trump is a lot smarter than me.
‘His answer and comments are completely unintelligible. Maybe he is in the early stages of Alzheimers.’
That must be why he’s able to speak to thousands of supporters without teleprompter, and hold them in the palm of his hand for an hour or more.
In the Museum of Silly Blogs, this one will sit on a pedestal near the door.
OK, thanks. Background is everything. I first read it and assumed he was talking about a strong nuclear family in the context of crime prevention. lol
This was an interview, not a speech.
Doesn’t really matter where he went. Or even if he did not go at all.
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