Posted on 08/13/2015 10:22:14 AM PDT by GIdget2004
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the nation needs a president with an Ivy League education.
“I went to an Ivy League school,” he said on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.” “I was an excellent student at the Wharton School of Finance, which is the best in the world, one of the hardest to get into in the world, maybe the hardest, but maybe one of the hardest to get into, even back then.”
“That’s the kind of thinking our country needs, that mindset,” Trump added. “The fact is, that’s the kind of mindset or thinking we need to beat China on trade. They’re killing us.”
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He’s full of crap.
Our last 4 presidents have had Ivy League educations.
Ted Kennedy had a similarly choppy thought/speech pattern, but only when he was drunk - which was always...
ITS RUMORED...that Revrunt Al Sharpton learned a great deal from ever ready Teddy!
In the meantime, give him a chance to get his sea legs. He's not a professional politician and comes from a world where you don't need to parse your words, walk in eggshells and have every position run through a focus group.
I hope Trump does not ever get to that point but I imagine over time, he'll get a little more polished in that regard.
Like the last 4 presidents: Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Bush?
Okay. Sure. Why not?
Neither one can possibly be worse than the plague of Ivy League big-government asshats who have been f---ed up this country so badly over the last 25-30 years.
Donald Trump has already exposed himself as an unapologetic male chauvinist pig, an egotistical braggart who has no more power to restrain himself when attacked than lower forms of life like amoebas who instantly lash out at the slightest provocation, and now we see another aspect of The Donald’s character — a condescending elitist who has nothing but disdain for the mental capacity of the 99.9% of Americans who did not graduate from Ivy League universities, even though as a graduate himself of a top Ivy League business school, Wharton, he somehow managed to drive his company into complete bankruptcy on at least one occasion.
Usually with people like this...the more rope you give them they do eventually hang themselves.
If I were in a position to be advising any of the other candidates, I would advise them not to attack DT.
Trump’s big mouth is his biggest enemy.
Who said he should be embarrassed or modest about attending the Wharton School of Finance and having an Ivy League education?
“Feeling Good, Louis!”
It’s no wonder conservatives can’t get anyone elected. The drive by media posts inflamatory half truths and we accept it hook, line and sinker without ever checking. Sigh~
...HH: Now one of the things this article used to try and get you into a fight with me, and me into a fight with you, is that I mentioned temperament on Sunday, and I said you’ve got, you don’t have presidential temperament. I should have said an unprecedented temperament. I said that on Morning Joe the next day before this article came out. I want to know when the temperament issue comes up, and you talked yesterday about the Doral deal, and you said you punch and you punch, and you beat the hell out of them until you get the deal done. Does that work in the Oval Office, do you think, Donald Trump?
DT: Absolutely. I mean, you do it, and you do it in a dignified way. Hey, look, I went to an Ivy League school. I was a great student. You know, I had to sit in class, and sometimes, they weren’t exactly exciting, but I was an excellent student at the Wharton School of Finance, which is the best in the world, one of the hardest to get into in the world, maybe the hardest, but one of the hardest to get into, even back then, I mean, it was always at that level, and did well, came out. I made a fortune. I made over $10 billion dollars, and that’s a lot, and I only say that because that’s the kind of, I’m not saying that as a braggadocios thing. that’s the kind of thinking that our country needs, the kind of mindset. I’m not saying the nicest person, the not nicest, although I like to be nice, but the fact is that’s the kind of mindset or thinking we need to beat China on trade. I don’t know if you noticed they just devalued their currency again...
http://www.hughhewitt.com/donald-trump-returns-to-the-hugh-hewitt-show/#more-28344
We need someone with an Ivy League education; AND its ok to keep funding PPH.
Riiiiight.
Mr Cruz; please take the stage.
The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group.[2] The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.
So let me get this clear. Anyone who went to one of these schools should be off our list?
I was not fortunate enough to attend an Ivy League school but if I could do my life over again knowing what I know now, I would have studied much harder in high school so that I could get admitted to one of them.
It's not Ivy Leaguers that are the problem here but the point-headed and wonkish career politicians who have no real world business experience but presume to know what is best for us in that regard.
The last Democrat president who would make the top ten best of all time list didn't even go to college. The last Republican president who would make the top ten best of all time list attended a no-name college.
“Trump is absolutely right. And Ted Cruz (Harvard AND Princeton) is just the man we want and need.”
You may be on to something. Perhaps that was Trump’s hint at Cruz being the running mate.
I can forgive him that. His heart seems to be in the right place. Gotta wonder how he managed to graduate, though!
I was thinking Project Managers and Engineers (face it, techies need SOME supervision...).
You are so right. The gift of gab is a common denominator among politicians.
Not all though. Calvin Coolidge was one of my all time favorites. Silent Cal they called him. There is a lot DT could learn from Silent Cal. Including humility and modesty and when to keep your big trap shut.
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