Penn-Wharton alum and former republican calls out Trump for lying about being 1st in his class:

[fleur-de-lisa]

Kelly Meno @KellysKorner - 8:28 AM - Mar 6, 2019

No, @realDonaldTrump. You were not “first in your class at Penn.” This is what happens when you spend years falsely accusing other people to make you feel better about your own ineptitude. I am a lifelong republican who has jumped ship for good. Disgraceful, sir. #SummaCumLiar


(Shows list of Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, and Summa Cum Laude graduates . . . Shitler not on the list!)

Link to tweet

[empedocles]

1. Donald sure got a lotta dots

[olegramps]

29. He also was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for military school brats.

[mitch96]

31. Lying about something easily proven to be false.... vat a putz............. nt

[Wounded Bear]

2. Trump meant he was first...

out the door at break time.

[PJMcK]

3. Trump lied?!

What a non-surprise.

[tblue37]

25. Here he is--listed among students graduating without honors:

A 1968 commencement program shared Friday by the Daily Pennsylvanian backs that up. It shows that Trump graduated from the undergraduate school of finance and commerce, but he did not graduate at the top of his class or with honors.

[Ferrets are Cool]

41. Damn, I feel so stupid...

After all this time, I learn today that his middle name is John. How VERY appropriate.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

53. LOL

[strongermessage]

4. First in his class??? More like Summa Fat Ass.

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. He was Magna Cum Toosunna with the porn stars & prostitutes though. (nm)

[malaise]

9. You win the thread

hands down

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. Thank you.

Have a good day malaise.

[True Blue American]

15. He wins the whole month, year,decade!

[fleur-de-lisa]

11. LOL!

[itcfish]

16. Now That was Really

Funny!

[strongermessage]

21. Hilarious.

[calimary]

46. Summa cum Lard.

[Yavin4]

6. U. Penn admitted him.

So, Kelly Meno, your precious alma mater has lost all integrity.

[MineralMan]

7. Magma cum Loudly, more likely...

[Sneederbunk]

8. He was first in class but had college sign NDA.

[calimary]

47. Maybe he was first in class TO have college sign an NDA.

[DFW]

10. He apparently didn't make much of an impression while he was there.

I went to Penn (1970-1974), even took a course at Wharton. No one even mentioned his name.

[BSdetect]

12. Maybe making up his bone spurs excuse occupied his time

[DFW]

13. He surely had that ghostwritten along with everything else. n/t

[Blue_true]

36. A scumbag like Trump likely paid other students to help him with tests.

I have infinitely less than zero respect for that fraud.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

48. I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating

In the Ivy League, there is something called the "Gentleman's C". This is a passing grade given to men of "good families" (George W Bush undoubtedly got some at Yale) or whose families had given a lot of money to the school (which is where Trump comes in) who should be given less than passing grades. It is one of the less endearing traditions of the Ivy League.

When I was in graduate school at Harvard, I spent a semester as a teaching assistant, teaching an intro class in history of the Christian religion. There was one student, the scion of a Boston Brahmin family, who deserved an F in the class, so I gave him one. The history department chairman called me into his office, explained the Gentleman's C, and told me to change this one grade. I didn't want to, so he changed it. (I then found myself another job at the university computer center, which, to my delight, paid considerably more.)

[Blue_true]

52. At my southern public university, we called the Gentleman C sonething else.

It was when a student barely scraped by to graduation by piling up C's. But your illustration of it is the more traditional one.

Many people don't realize how many kids of rich, prominent families get into the top colleges in the country because of their family, nothing else. The same people vigorously decry what they see as giving an advantage to a POC kid who is head and shoulders above many of his or her rich White classmates on ability and capacity to truly succeed in college.

[dlk]

17. There Was a Rumor Per a Wharton Alum that Trump Never Graduated

That would be much more believable.

[fleur-de-lisa]

18. I have heard that rumor too.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

[murielm99]

20. That sounds like a real possibility.

And a good excuse to make threats about keeping his transcripts private. Although no one has to make threats for that, only requests.

[tblue37]

24. A few days ago someone posted a graduation program with Trump's name on it--among the

students graduating without honors.

(See my post #25 above for the progam.)

[Gothmog]

33. That was me

I just reposted it on this thread

[PaulRevere08]

19. From a February 2017 PennLive article

University of Pennsylvania records and documents uncovered by the school's student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, show it's President Trump's academic record that is now in question.

For decades, the national media has reported that Trump graduated "first in his class" at Wharton, often confusing his undergraduate degree with the Ivy League university's top-ranked MBA program.
University of Pennsylvania records and documents uncovered by the school's student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, show it's President Trump's academic record that is now in question.



[link:https://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/02/what_is_trumps_real_record_at.html|

[DoctorJoJo]

22. According to Fellow Classmates, He Rarely Went to Class and His Father's Staff Wrote His Papers ....

... plus one of His Profs said, "He was the worst goddamn student I ever had."

[jayschool2013]

27. Too many of those classes

took place during Executive Time.

[Demovictory9]

23. on Apprentice, he sure bragged about Wharton.

[justhanginon]

26. He was elected head of the Penn/ Wharton Porn Review.

Not quite the Harvard Law Review as Pres. Obama headed but you know, we do what best we can.

[BigmanPigman]

28. If he wasn't on that list than he is in the bottom 50%

of grads (MSNBC did a story last night).

He did once date Candice Bergen while both attended Penn. She was honest and said she didn't graduate. The only thing she could remember about her date was that his suit, shoes and car all matched...all were the same shade of burgundy.

"I was 18,” Bergen said of the time of her date. “He was a nice-looking guy, I mean, he was. And I was in college, and it’s where he was going to be going to college… It was like a blind date. He called me in the dorm. I was bored,” she explained. (Bergen attended the University of Pennsylvania just like Trump, although she eventually left the school to pursue her modeling and acting career.)
"But that’s not all: “He picked me up. He was wearing a burgundy three-piece suit with burgundy patent leather boots, and he was in a burgundy limousine, so it was very color-coordinated. I was home by nine.” When pressed, she clarified that “nine” was P.M., not A.M. “It was a very short dinner,” she noted."

http://time.com/4941328/candice-bergen-donald-trump-date/

[LakeArenal]

30. Great post.

[Totally Tunsie]

42. Surprised he didn't insist CB also wear burgundy on their date

because, you know, control and all that.

Man, did she ever dodge a bullet!

[BigmanPigman]

43. At the time she was famous due to

her celebrity ventriloquist father and her modeling career. I do not know why she would agree to go on a blind date with anyone. The fucking moron must have done some maneuvering to get a date with her sight unseen, especially since he was still a nobody.

[Gothmog]

32. Here is the graduation program

Trump was too stupid to get into the graduate school program at Wharton. In addition, trump did not graduate with honors. http://fortune.com/2015/08/14/donald-trump-wharton/

His school posted his graduate program that shows that he did not graduate with honor shttp://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/02/what_is_trumps_real_record_at.html

[Gothmog]

34. Investigators recover bumper sticker from Fred and Mary Trump's 1964 Pontiac.

Link to tweet

[malaise]

35. ROFL

[Blue_true]

37. I remember one of my college friends.

He knew that he didn't have a ton of intellectual firepower and he readily accepted that. He would always tell me and some others that all he was shooting for was a college record full of gentleman C's, because that was all that was needed, anything was excess if a person was just there to get a decent job after finishing undergrad. Turns out that he was a really smart guy, in retrospect.

[lastlib]

38. MAYBE he was reading from the bottom UP......!

So he was actually LAST in his class?

He probably graduated summa cum lucky!

[Mendocino]

39. All the old alumni

will back up Trump; Squee, Judge...Turtle, Ghoul, Magnolia, Huckleberry

[warmfeet]

40. There is only one reason

to threaten legal action against your former schools with regard to releasing your transcripts - you did so poorly, that you know you are completely fucked if the information gets out.

I think the orange asshole is completely fucked anyway.

No pity for the orange asshole.

[Blue Owl]

44. Invalid Dick-torian

n/t

[oldsoftie]

49. I'm gonna go ahead and say THIS is the winner on this thread

[Cha]

45. #SummaCumLiar! Perfect!

[marble falls]

50. Well he was always first in his class ...

to make it to lunch.

[RockRaven]

51. I bet he WAS #1 in his class...

in "how much money did daddy have to pay in bribes to get him enrolled and keep him enrolled through graduation"