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 president’s 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.
Trump’s 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. “I’m, 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 doesn’t 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.
Libs need to see his divorce papers too.....and birth certificate....
He’s already released his birth certificate.
I don’t consider memorizing a text book as a measure of intelligence. That’s why all Liberal PHD’s are total morons.
Congratulations, you can read a book better than I can. Doesn’t matter since we both get trophies anyway.
What’s up with this college crap?
He doesn’t have to prove anything to anybody since he has made his in life and the college graduates simply roast with seething hatred that he has done so and they haven’t.
Scott Walker did not graduate from college and the elite look down upon him like he has leprosy.
College educations have some merit but not many. It’s mainly a social “step up” in society and members of that society are hired and promoted ahead of many fine and more intelligent workers simply based upon that piece of paper they have hanging on the wall.
Graduates feel far superior to the “unwashed” simply because the “club” says so.
Now, the people want free college for everyone and all that it means is that we have extended high school 4 more years with no improvement in results.
Proof in the putting: “Watter’s world” is the perfect demonstration of what I say when he visits college campus.
Why is it that college professors are considered the absolute authority on any subject they “profess” when in reality none have ever held a real job or actually benefitted financially in their superior knowledge of everything?
Trump made something of himself and it really pisses people of lesser abilities that he is doing so.
College transcripts huh? I, along with probably 99% of his supporter could care less. It’s not how well you can “parrot” the teachings of your college professors...it’s about what you can do all by yourself!
Let me guess... Right after Obozo releases all his sealed records? /s
Trump doesn’t need to show anything related to schooling. He’s excelled at the school of capitalism, home campus RealVille,USA.
Those who can, do. Actions speak louder than words/grades.
Trump’s school grades are totally irrelevant — a non-starter if ever there was one. Rick Moran needs to drop this meme ASAP.
But I believe Moran does raise an important issue whereby Trump seems like a child at the playground, hurling insults at almost anybody who dares criticize him or ask him a hard question.
Does the USA really want a POTUS who acts in such a childish and undignified manner? Is this behavior an “ideal” that we hope our own children will emulate? I vote no.
Think HE told the truth a lot too....
Wharton would have never taken him without a record of outstanding grades at Fordham.
Being white, he didn’t have the same advantages that Obama had.
That wasn't the case in the 60s when he went to school. There were very few blacks in private colleges; but the ones who were there were academically qualified. Penn graduated black doctors, researchers, architects and veterinarians from the early 20th century.
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