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)
I agree... digging Trump on a silly technicality (not even as bad as Ben Carson’s scholarship offer) looks desperate. Trump is kind of good at baiting people to hit in a region where he knows how to hit right back, with expertise.
I say just let this play out. Trump could be a huge advantage if he is what he says he is, a person interested in learning from America what it thinks would make it great again. And this seems like an auspicious season for Cruz, with his visibility even if he doesn’t make the nomination; he and Trump have stayed friends and some powerful cabinet position, or even staying as special liaison in the Senate, could be in the cards for Cruz, and people would know who Cruz is so he could more easily garner popular support.
Probably the best school of business and economics on the planet. I had a boss who went to Wharton. How did he get excepted? Well, he was only Phi Beta Cappa and Dean’s list graduate of USC.
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.
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Perhaps she is brilliant. Or perhaps just lacks the ability to focus. Or perhaps she has both attributes.
No, that’s the Jesse Ventura factor. There is nothing more alluring to wrestling fans than a wrestling promoter who is really, really rich.
And it might as well be Hogwarts School of Business.
What Trump has done after Wharton has changed the real estate business.
If Wharton was smart they would change their name to Trump.
Fancy that girl! Been posting today about Trump and Bambi having the same meanness, pettiness and lack of knowledge. Haha — now we got the education cover up.
How did you beat me on that list? He must not have read enough of my posts.
Gotta get my game going!!
And Trump would have learned some pretty good things there, which is what he might be boasting about. Not even himself so much, but that he has some Wharton wisdom to pass on.
Oh meow, meow, meow. Talk about mean and petty in a mirror would you.
Guess that’s why Trump didn’t get in and had to go to Fordham until daddy could pull some strings.
No kidding.
Let’s see. He graduated from Wharton. What’s the issue?
By the way, what’s the big deal about grades, at a school where everybody is brainy to begin with. To get in you need to be an A student. Even if you have a C average at a place like Wharton, it means you’re an “average” brainy A student
In that case, I shall do that!!
Anyone who consistently has to tell me how good, smart, wonderful, etc that they are, tends to be a sign that they are hiding something. Not always, mind you. People like Gates, Oprah, and others don’t need to tell me how smart they are. They are in the position of wealth due to having a bit of intelligence. That’s how I got where I am!
This is some really petty and silly junk.
The Trump quotes reek of incoherence.”
Did you support George W Bush? Ever hear him speak off-script?
Seems to me that Trump has a mysterious sense of destiny.
Never “misunderestimate” Trump (and Bush was so bad there was a Bushisms calendar, yup 365 malapropisms in a cube).
That’s twice now in less than 24 hours I’ve seen that speculation about Alzheimers from FReepers.
Is this the new TDS talking point that they really think is going to bring down Trump?
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...So he takes something that Trump didn't say, pretends that he did say it, and rags on Trump for it not being true. Desparation is truly a horrid sight to see.
The Trump quotes reek of incoherence.â€
Did you support George W Bush? Ever hear him speak off-script?
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And if you ever want to see TRUE incoherence, listen to Hussein “Slims” Obama babble away when he has no teleprompter or hasn’t practiced a speech to near memory.
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