Posted on 08/13/2015 12:50:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As PJM’s D.C. Editor Bridget Johnson reports, Donald Trump once again hurled a personal insult at a rival for the nomination that questions the candidate’s intelligence.
He said that Jeb Bush was “not a smart person” and Marco Rubio was “foolish and stupid.” He called John McCain a “dummy.” He said that Rick Perry should “take an IQ test.”
Now he comes out and says Rand Paul is “a spoiled brat without a properly functioning brain.”
What is it with these sandbox epithets? Five year olds shout “stupid” and “dummy” at one another, not grown men seeking the most powerful office in the world.
The obvious explanation is that Donald Trump has a massive insecurity when it comes to his own intelligence. He uses the insults to try to prove to himself that he is the equal of the mostly accomplished men and women who are running for the presidency. He also constantly refers to himself a “smart”or “a really smart person,” trying to convince himself of his own intellectual gifts.
He could prove it to us all — if he would only release his college transcripts.
As the Daily Caller pointed out in an article last month, Trump is oblivious to the hypocrisy of his refusal to release his college grades:
Calling President Barack Obama the least transparent president in the history of this country back in 2012, Trump offered to give $5 million to the charity of the presidents choosing if he released his college application and transcript.
The check will be given within one hour after he releases all of the records, Trump declared in a video.
But now that Trump himself is a candidate for president, he is not exactly volunteering the same transparency he once demanded of Obama. 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. Emails Tuesday and Wednesday to the Trump campaign to see if the candidate had reconsidered now that he is officially a candidate went unreturned.
Trumps refusal to release his transcript is especially peculiar since he regularly touts his brilliance and phenomenal college success on the campaign trail.
I went to the Wharton School of Business, Trump routinely notes during campaign speeches. Im, like, a really smart person.
He often adds, as he did in a recent speech in Las Vegas attended by TheDC, that Wharton is the best business school in the country and that he did great there.
And yet, for some reason, Trump doesnt want to show the American people just how great he did.
Not all candidates release their college grades. But what happens when a candidate’s intelligence — or lack of it — becomes an issue? In the case of President Obama, his campaign was touting his “brilliance,” so requesting that he release his college grades was entirely reasonable, and indeed, expected.
The same could be fairly said of Donald Trump. By questioning the intelligence of his rivals, he is implying that he is smarter than they are. Very well, put your grades where you mouth is, Trump. Let us have a peek at how “great” you did at Wharton, and the other college you attended for two years, Fordham.
Trump’s infantile insults aside, he should also release his grades to show he isn’t a liar. I suspect it will hardly matter to the Trumpbots who mindlessly cheer this idiotic clown on.
What if he waits until the entire media, including "conservative" radio is foaming at the mouth over his transcripts? Then he releases them, and they are better than average, or even great.
At that time he yanks their underwear over their heads and ties a knot. Again. This is possible.
Hold your breath, Rick Moran Moron!
Reported by Rick MORON!!
I’d be more interested in candidates’ SATs, ACTs, GREs, LSATs, etc., than college grades. Then I just listen to what candidates are saying in the here and now.
Obama is such a genius according to those who’ve pimped him to the voting public, they should have given us his stratospheric SATs and LSATs during the first days after he announced. Still waiting.
if he’s smart, then he’ll release his information as soon as 0bama releases all his
What a moron. His life's work is a far better indication of his intelligence than how he did in college 50 years ago. Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Steve Wosniack and many other top business people never even finished college. Although there's no reason to believe he didn't do well as he says. Just a petty attempt to distract us based on a non-issue.
Cause and effect...anyone who has read the “Art of the Deal” would know just how smart the Donald is and is not.
Moran evidently did not but likes the fact the ‘a’ in his last name is interchangeable with the letter “O”.
I read that Trump was an average student and was disinterested in school, particularly when he went to Penn. While I highly value education and good grades, I do not see Trump’s academic performance as an issue. Grades open the door to a job. Trump went to work for his father, then he took over the business. He didn’t need the grades to open the door. He did need knowledge to get where he is today. Compare that to Obama work history. I didn’t need to see Obama’s records to know he was not right for the country. I don’t need to see Trump’s either.
You nailed it!
Politicians don't release such documents on their own. Should they? If the grades are good, it's bragging. If they're bad it's giving ammunition to one's opponents. How one did in college may not be relevant to performance in public office decades later. And should campaigns focus on such matters when there are so many other problems?
Reagan might have been a C student. I know he graduated from tiny Eureka College, but he got a degree in economics and understood the fundamentals of economics. Reagan knew the laws of supply and demand. I cannot think of one person in the 0bama administration who understands economics, other than the type of economics taught at the University of Havana. How else can you explain 0bamacare?
He’s already released his birth certificate.
This comment, at link, states it perfectly....
ZDson
Moran once again shows he’s nothing but another lackey for the GOP leadership posting hit pieces and resorting to the sort of name calling normally reserved to liberal social justice “warriors”.
You’re a RINO, why don’t you just leave PJ and start writing for Salon?
Hell, I'm still waiting for Kerry's DD14.
Well, George Washington was a very wealthy farmer and exporter.
Much like Bush’s Yale education, his Harvard MBA, and his pilot training; one does not graduate from Wharton unless they have something on the ball.
I am not a fan of Trumps petulant preppy act, but I respect his brains and his business acumen.
Trump attended Fordham University in the Bronx for two years, before transferring to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, because Wharton then had one of the few real estate studies departments in US academia.
He graduated in 1968, with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.
So, they’re probably going to ask for both his Fordham and Wharton transcripts?
While they’re at tit, they might want to ask for his High School records, he attended the New York Military Academy (NYMA).
Who is this Rick Moron fellow?
He writes for both the American Thinker and PJ Media.
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