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Showing Original Post only (View all)What a shocker!! Trump lied about graduating first in his class at Wharton [View all]
Actually, it's not that shocking.
Actually, it's not shocking at all.
For years, President Donald Trump has said its clear that he is a very smart guy since he attended Wharton a school he describes as super genius stuff.
Trump, who graduated from Wharton in 1968, has also never challenged the fact that he "graduated first in his class," which various publishers and news agencies such as The New York Times have reported.
Penn records and Trumps classmates dispute this claim.
In 1968, The Daily Pennsylvanian published a list of the 56 students who were on the Wharton Deans List that year Trumps name is not among them.
Trump, who graduated from Wharton in 1968, has also never challenged the fact that he "graduated first in his class," which various publishers and news agencies such as The New York Times have reported.
Penn records and Trumps classmates dispute this claim.
In 1968, The Daily Pennsylvanian published a list of the 56 students who were on the Wharton Deans List that year Trumps name is not among them.
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No honors, no Dean's list...
Read all about it here: http://www.thedp.com/article/2017/02/trump-academics-at-wharton
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What a shocker!! Trump lied about graduating first in his class at Wharton [View all]
LudwigPastorius
Feb 2017
OP
Does penn still have the undergrad Wharton degree? I thought it was strictly MBA now?
anneboleyn
Feb 2017
#42
My spouse is a Penn grad, and I went to Stanford (it's interesting to see who is on DU) grad school
anneboleyn
Feb 2017
#41
The Farm! I miss Northern California so much it hurts. I am a Cal golden bear too (undergrad)
anneboleyn
Feb 2017
#48
I agree with you. Most people (and I'm an academic with a spouse who has a Ph.D. from Penn)
anneboleyn
Feb 2017
#46
And UCLA Bruins, The Farm (Stanford), and Cal (Berkeley). I love finding out how much
anneboleyn
Feb 2017
#49
Did anyone ever believe this? I mean we are talking Donald Trump graduating with honors
lunasun
Feb 2017
#3
People who are actually intelligent don't have to brag about how smart they are.
BlueStater
Feb 2017
#15
Agreed. We have to do well in 2018 to at least push back on legislation and we then kick
BeckyDem
Feb 2017
#79
I think we'll get there. I am encouraged by his low polls so far. The protests against him
BeckyDem
Feb 2017
#82
I took an engineering class, &even though calculators were available, we had to use a slide rule
Alice11111
Feb 2017
#63
It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that he probably was a mediocre student.
Beacool
Feb 2017
#56
Yes, for him & many of his staff...KAC, SB, . I would love to have him on cross examination in court
Alice11111
Feb 2017
#64
IMHO Trump misled people for years by saying "Wharton" as people think "MBA" He never mentions
anneboleyn
Feb 2017
#66
and this is the man, who demanded to see Obama's college and law school records!
vlyons
Feb 2017
#76