Commentary: Donald Trump is now '47'. Why Pomona College alumni want the number back

LA Times ^ | Nov 8, 2024 | Hugo Martín

[where's_the_Outrage?]

My favorite baseball cap is emblazoned with the number 47 on it.

But it's not what you think.

Long before Donald Trump launched his bid to return to the White House to become the nation's 47th president, the number 47 held special meaning for me and my fellow Pomona College graduates and current students.

The number 47 is considered sacred for anyone who calls themselves a Sagehen. (Yes, that's our college mascot. Don't laugh.)

The number 47 has eerily appeared repeatedly in the 137-year history of this private liberal arts college, located in the tranquil, tree-shaded town of Claremont.

Examples? Exits on the 10 and 210 freeways to get to Pomona College are both number 47. The organ at the college's music auditorium has 47 pipes in the top row. There were 47 enrolled students at the time of the first graduating class in 1894. The largest dorm on campus, officially known as Florence Carrier Blaisdell and Della Mullock Mudd Hall, has 47 characters in the title and was completed in 1947. The dorm's staircase contains 47 balusters.......

Another alumnus wrote that he scraped off a 47 sticker from his car rear window. "I don't want anyone thinking I voted for him."

An alumnus from the class of 1996 messaged me to say that she had been thinking about getting a "47" tattoo but has had second thoughts since Trump's election. "Maybe after time passes I will," she said. "But not anytime soon."

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I guess the snowflakes would have been OK with 47 if the Kommie won.

[Gaffer]

Petty ridiculous losers

[dragnet2]

LA Times?

LOL!

[Freeper]

In 1894 didn’t they know that eventually there would be a 47th president? Poor planning on them. Not me.

[Billthedrill]

Serious infantilism issues here.

[VTenigma]

Ah well, sucks to be you. Trump owns it now.

[Yogafist]

(Yawn) Who cares?

[dragnet2]

Here's the LA Times editor trying write up a Trump bad article and keeps failing.

[Larry Lucido]

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Trump owns it now.

Not so quick. There is the possibility that Biden resigns making her 47. I don't think he would agree to it, but it has been mentioned on FR.

[xp38]

t shirt for sale on eBay

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I expected a younger writer. It’s a shame that this old coot hasn’t grown up and taken the edge off his narcissism.

[alancarp]

I want the rainbow sign God gave Noah back from the LGBTQ++ crowd, but I guess that ain’t happening any time soon.

[Drew68]

"It's a number dear to Sagehens who have long considered it their own," he said. "I definitely feel that the Trump campaign has co-opted it in a way that makes it difficult for all people who love 47 to display it."

My God, you people are retarded.

[gundog]

Did they embrace this little weirdo, with his 4-7 shit?

[Leaning Right]

The alumni complaints about the number 47 are certainly valid. They should take the time to write up their objections in detail. Then place their objections where they belong, in the circular file.

[fhayek]

Tough sh!t.

[Williams]

Kind of like saying they’re upset because they and Trump both have a hangnail.

In the great scheme of things, the “significance” of Pomona College’s relationship to the number 47, is exactly dick.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Oh for the love of mike. Learn to deal with it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Mudhen College Loan Deadbeats need to eat their cookies, drink their cocoa and play with their Legos on their Safe Space days off to recover from the election.