[mandaladon]

Interviews with cadets who knew him well and a close mentor reveal a more complex picture of Trump’s experience at the school. As a maturing teenager, he began to exhibit some of the traits the world would come to know through his fame as a real estate mogul, reality TV star and White House contender. Even at an academy renowned for imposing strict standards on its cadets, Trump often managed to play by his own rules. He often left campus on weekends and drew the envy of fellow students for his habit of bringing attractive women to the school. He also stirred resentment from some in his orbit.--------------------Reading the whole article makes me like Trump even more!

[mkjessup]

And this same Washington Post couldn’t find their asses with a road map and a flashlight when it came to digging into Emperor Barky’s dubious past.

[mandaladon]

He was quieter and humbler than he is now, some classmates said, and did not brag about his family’s wealth. “I remember having a conversation with him where he said his dad was a builder, and I said, ‘My dad was a builder, too,’ ” said Jeffrey Pollack, who was in A Company. It wasn’t until several years later that Pollack picked up a news magazine, read about the Trump family fortune and realized what his classmate had meant.----------------Very positive trait

[Redleg Duke]

At least the records are not sealed!

[dp0622]

HE’s the new Teflon Don :)

let’s hope he fares better than the last one!

[2banana]

Amazingly - no newspaper can find anyone who remembers obama in college...

[dowcaet]

You mean to tell me he was a skirt chaser in his younger days. Why, that should disqualify him from running for president. Really WaPo is this the best you can do?

[4rcane]

So how well did Trump do academically? Back then IQ test wasn’t a tamboo so he must’ve taken it

[Georgia Girl 2]

“He often left campus on weekends”

Yeh because every weekend Trump’s father made him come home and work on his various properties painting etc.

[Maelstorm]

Oh my. Talk about desperate. Attacking Trump based on hearsay back when he was in military school? Just lame.

[4rcane]

media find Trump’s classmates to contradict his story and automatically assume that story is true while Trump’s version is false

[Caipirabob]

Lol...but where is the kitchen sink? They’ve thrown everything else at Trump...

[darkwing104]

its called desperation. we know more about Trump's school years than Obama.

How dare day associate Trump with the Military, The Libs are having a cow what Trump did years ago.

[SeeSharp]

But Bill Clinton’s trip to Moscow during the cold war was off limits for discussion during his campaign.

[Wilderness Conservative]

This is great, they have to go back to the 60’s to dig up dirt when he was in high school. NEWS FLASH: Hazing was the norm in military schools up through the 90’s. Then they all got all pussified and lawsuit scared.

[Gaffer]

Barack Hussein Obama has no military training whatsoever - even as being CinC. Barack Hussein Obama has no published official transcripts, papers, tests, quizzes or even a poem from his time, supposedly at THREE different US colleges and Universities.

I don’t wanna hear a damn thing about Trump’s prior education and/or military training.

[huldah1776]

Trump does learn from his mistakes, if this happened. Talk to his present employees and those who oversee his construction plus his contractors. Get a good overview.

[miss marmelstein]

Reviving the old Romney “He’s a beast!” stuff from 2012.

[ifinnegan]

“another prestigious assignment, but one with no command responsibilities”

See what they did there? No command authority. And he wants to be the commander in chief.

In addition to that, this is like the perfect anti-Trump fairy tale to resonate with liberals.

[mylife]

You can not lead effectively without delegation, but you have to have trust and check up on those you delegate too.

[GBA]

Interesting high school experience. Not many people get to work out leadership principles, cause and effect, the hows and whys of success and failure, while still in high school.

Quite a step forward to have gotten some of those mistakes out of the way so early and in such an environment.

A JROTC sanctioned, military hierarchy, adhering to an honor code and learning to live with respect for the chain of command, and all at a young age as you do in a military school, seems like a great place and way to learn those basics of leadership, much better then and there than later in the real world where the mistakes hurt for real.

No matter what WaPo says and whatever his record of successes and failures in high school might be, I see Trump's high school days as a major advantage over the rest of the field.