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Do your research. Business magazines with objective methodologies peg him at less than half of his alleged $10 billion.. These are folks who evaluate large fortunes for a living. The thing is, his 2 - 4.5 billion is still a really impressively big pile of money. I’m not sure I understand his need to exaggerate. But exaggeration seems to be his life blood.

Your link on IQ is a joke.

First, the SAT isn’t sensitive enough to accurately measure an IQ that high. Even the old SAT.

Second undergraduate business programs don’t admit the smartest kids, not even to the Ivies.

Third, students admitted to Wharton scored on average lower than Harvard, Princeton m and Yale admits (though Wharton average scores are well above average for the population at large.) You can see this by the relative acceptance rates. Harvard and Stanford are hovering just over a 5% acceptance rate. Wharton is 12%. Harvard and Stanford have notoriously high admission standards. Even still, most kids at Harvard hover around 140, not 156. The average new 1600 SAT at Harvard is 100 points higher than penn, and roughly 35 points higher than Wharton, now that it’s a separate school within Penn.

As well the graduation program from his graduating class does not list trump as receiving honors with his degree, thus indicating that he was not one of the better students of his graduating class.

Fourth, there is anecdotal evidence that trump got in through a family friend. This sort of thing was much more common a half century ago when the Ivies were more old boy schools mostly for the scions of well-off kids with a sprinkling of financial aid cases who were really, really smart. trump clearly fell into the rich dude’s son category, not the really, really smart category. Today, the financial aid cases slightly outnumber the rich kids at most of these schools.. About 55% - 60% of Harvard undergrads get financial aid. But here’s a statist that will blow your mind: 40% of Harvard families have family income of $250,000 per year or more.c

It’s difficult to realize that relatively speaking, it’s much harder to get into these schools today than in the past. Even 20 years ago the acceptance rates were much higher, and the intellectual attainment of admitted students was, on average, still high, but not as high today.

GW Bush had an above average SAT score in his day, But likely wouldn’t be admitted to Yale today with his 1206, even taking into account the shifting of scores due to re-norming.

There is no real evidence of trump’s IQ based on his admission to Wharton, beyond saying, he was probably above average.