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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 01:19 PM Feb 2017

Trump claim of being 'first in his class' at Wharton was another lie: report

Throughout his campaign and nascent presidency, Donald Trump has maintained that he is “a very smart guy” who graduated from Pennsylvania University’s Wharton School of Business at the top of his class.

However, according to a Thursday report from The Daily Pennsylvanian, academic records and the recollections of his classmates don’t line up with Trump’s claims — including a 1984 boast to the New York Times that he graduated “first in his class.”

“Penn records and Trump’s classmates dispute this claim,” wrote the Pennsylvanian’s Alex Rabin and Rebecca Tan. “In 1968, The Daily Pennsylvanian published a list of the 56 students who were on the Wharton Dean’s List that year — Trump’s name is not among them.”

“I recognize virtually all the names on that list, ” said 1968 Wharton graduate Stephen Foxman to the DP, “and Trump just wasn’t one of them.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-claim-of-being-first-in-his-class-at-wharton-was-another-lie-report/

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Trump claim of being 'first in his class' at Wharton was another lie: report (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
A lifelong pathological liar. yallerdawg Feb 2017 #1
He's been proven to lie about everything else, I don't know why anyone would expect Arkansas Granny Feb 2017 #2
He didn't go to the Wharton School of Business at all, COLGATE4 Feb 2017 #3
he was in the wharton school (then "of finance and commerce") unblock Feb 2017 #4
Exactly. He doesn't have an MBA. He just has a BS. Literally. nt SunSeeker Feb 2017 #5
well in that sense he probably was first in his class, lol unblock Feb 2017 #6
Thanks. That's what I was trying to say. COLGATE4 Feb 2017 #7
Figures. dalton99a Feb 2017 #8

Arkansas Granny

(31,514 posts)
2. He's been proven to lie about everything else, I don't know why anyone would expect
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 01:32 PM
Feb 2017

this to be any different. It's like he has an aversion to telling the truth.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
3. He didn't go to the Wharton School of Business at all,
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 01:32 PM
Feb 2017

much less having 'first in class' status. He took some courses from them.

unblock

(52,195 posts)
4. he was in the wharton school (then "of finance and commerce")
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 01:37 PM
Feb 2017

but in the obscure undergraduate program, not the much more famous mba program.

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