Interviews with cadets who knew him well and a close mentor reveal a more complex picture of Trumpâs 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!
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To: mandaladon
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.
2 posted on
01/10/2016 7:42:19 AM PST by
mkjessup
(What do terrorists, 'RATs and RINOs fear most? The prospect of President Donald J. Trump!!)
To: mandaladon
He was quieter and humbler than he is now, some classmates said, and did not brag about his familyâs wealth. âI remember having a conversation with him where he said his dad was a builder, and I said, âMy dad was a builder, too,âââ said Jeffrey Pollack, who was in A Company. It wasnât 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
3 posted on
01/10/2016 7:43:29 AM PST by
mandaladon
(Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twai)
To: mandaladon
At least the records are not sealed!
4 posted on
01/10/2016 7:43:39 AM PST by
Redleg Duke
(The Federal Government is nothing but a welfare program with a dress code!)
To: mandaladon
HE’s the new Teflon Don :)
let’s hope he fares better than the last one!
5 posted on
01/10/2016 7:45:08 AM PST by
dp0622
(i .)
To: mandaladon
Amazingly - no newspaper can find anyone who remembers obama in college...
6 posted on
01/10/2016 7:46:56 AM PST by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: mandaladon
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?
7 posted on
01/10/2016 7:47:09 AM PST by
dowcaet
To: mandaladon
So how well did Trump do academically? Back then IQ test wasn’t a tamboo so he must’ve taken it
8 posted on
01/10/2016 7:47:32 AM PST by
4rcane
To: mandaladon
“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.
9 posted on
01/10/2016 7:47:51 AM PST by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: mandaladon
Oh my. Talk about desperate. Attacking Trump based on hearsay back when he was in military school? Just lame.
10 posted on
01/10/2016 7:47:51 AM PST by
Maelstorm
(America wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me Liberty or cut me a government check!".)
To: mandaladon
media find Trump’s classmates to contradict his story and automatically assume that story is true while Trump’s version is false
11 posted on
01/10/2016 7:48:25 AM PST by
4rcane
To: mandaladon
Lol...but where is the kitchen sink? They’ve thrown everything else at Trump...
12 posted on
01/10/2016 7:48:34 AM PST by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: mandaladon
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.
13 posted on
01/10/2016 7:49:09 AM PST by
darkwing104
(Forgive but don't forget)
To: mandaladon
But Bill Clinton’s trip to Moscow during the cold war was off limits for discussion during his campaign.
14 posted on
01/10/2016 7:49:59 AM PST by
SeeSharp
To: mandaladon
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.
To: mandaladon
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 donât wanna hear a damn thing about Trumpâs prior education and/or military training.
17 posted on
01/10/2016 7:52:54 AM PST by
Gaffer
To: mandaladon
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.
To: mandaladon
Reviving the old Romney “He’s a beast!” stuff from 2012.
21 posted on
01/10/2016 7:56:11 AM PST by
miss marmelstein
(Richard then Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
To: mandaladon
“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.
22 posted on
01/10/2016 7:56:58 AM PST by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: mandaladon
You can not lead effectively without delegation, but you have to have trust and check up on those you delegate too.
23 posted on
01/10/2016 8:01:00 AM PST by
mylife
To: mandaladon
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.
30 posted on
01/10/2016 8:20:26 AM PST by
GBA
(Here in the matrix, life is but a dream.)
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