Is there any actual evidence that he even said he was the top of his class?
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had." - Wharton professor, William T Kelley
Just listen to Trump try to tell a story or anecdote, he can't stay on a single train of thought. He sounds like a guy talking to someone on his phone in 7/11 parking lot.
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had." - Wharton professor, William T Kelley
Just listen to Trump try to tell a story or anecdote, he can't stay on a single train of thought. He sounds like a guy talking to someone on his phone in 7/11 parking lot.
Well, maybe you need to listen better, Ludwig. Trump speaks in the language of the common American man. He doesn't feel compelled to engage in triple nuanced, semantic argle-bargle like some Ivy league liberal. The days of the highfalutin elite talking down to us like were a bunch of gullible fvcking idiots is over.
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had." - Wharton professor, William T Kelley
Just listen to Trump try to tell a story or anecdote, he can't stay on a single train of thought. He sounds like a guy talking to someone on his phone in 7/11 parking lot.
Just listen to Trump try to tell a story or anecdote, he can't stay on a single train of thought. He sounds like a guy talking to someone on his phone in 7/11 parking lot.
Sad and accurate piece explaining that we have already lost our democracy. Institutions cannot speak freely against the ruling party anymore without fear of retribution. Universities, law firms, news orgs, politicians, companies have all been cowed by the ruling party in America and will not speak or act freely against Trump anymore.
That's it, boys. It's gone. You absolute idiots killed it.
We can theoretically build it back, but it's going to take the utter defeat of trumpism at the ballot box. And I don't see that happening, with the right wing mediasphere so powerful.
America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism. The Trump administration’s weaponization of government agencies and flurry of punitive actions against critics has raised the cost of opposition for a wide range of Americans. The Trump administration has taken (or credibly threatened) punitive action against a strikingly large number of individuals and organizations that it considers its opponents. It has, for example, selectively deployed law enforcement agencies against critics. President Trump directed the Department of Justice to open investigations into Christopher Krebs (who as the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency publicly contradicted Mr. Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020) and Miles Taylor (who, when he was a Department of Homeland Security official, anonymously wrote an opinion piece criticizing the president in 2018). The administration has also opened a criminal investigation into Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, who filed a lawsuit against Mr. Trump in 2022.
The administration has targeted major law firms for retribution. It effectively prohibited the federal government from hiring Perkins Coie; Paul, Weiss; and other leading law firms it perceived as friendly to the Democratic Party. It also threatened to cancel their clients’ government contracts and suspended their employees’ security clearances, preventing them from working on many cases related to the government.
Donors to the Democratic Party and other progressive causes also face political retribution. In April, Mr. Trump directed the attorney general to investigate the fund-raising practices of ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s main donor platform, in an apparent effort to weaken his rivals’ fund-raising infrastructure. Major Democratic donors now fear retribution in the form of tax and other investigations. Some have hired additional legal counsel to prepare for tax audits, congressional investigations or lawsuits. Others have moved assets abroad.
Like many autocratic governments, the Trump administration has targeted the media. Mr. Trump has sued ABC News, CBS News, Meta, Simon & Schuster and The Des Moines Register. The lawsuits appear to have weak legal bases, but because media outlets like ABC and CBS are owned by conglomerates with other interests affected by federal government decisions, a prolonged legal battle against a sitting president could be costly.
Updated above. Pretty sure at least a few of these are the same poster.
To agip's point, Runkin might be a principled conservative who enjoys satire. OldRunningGuy is a principled conservative who had enough of a party that is no longer conservative.
Nope. I am one poster. I'll be ya any time that you want, but you'll back out in a heartbeat.
You are a liberal Harris Biden Obama cult worshiper with no brains, aka a sheep at best. Whatever the liberal media posts, it's the truth, eh? That is clearly sh*t for brains at best.
You hate Trump, you hate America, you love a corrupt government (Biden Obama Clintons) and cleaning it up by a conservative piss*s you off, right?
You believe anyone who crosses the border is automatically given the right to due process, aka you are a moron. You support violent illegals having rights in a country that they entered illegally. How dumb are you? Anti-American and racist, eh?
The above alone proves that you can't think for yourself and you are downright ignorant. Doesn't matter if you are a liberal or conservative. Anyone who thinks opposite of above is ignorant and that clearly defines you.
People say it about him. That's what I'm responding to.
He was not top of his class in a strict sense (actually the valedictorian).
He was also not anywhere near the top of his class, to accomodate a broader definition, and there is contemporary and definitive proof of that.
Doald Trump did NOT graduate at the top of class, no matter how anyone spins it.
To address the folly of the broader definition, imagine this scenario:
The graduates with the top ten GPAs in a class are standing in a circle at the Commencement ceremony. The student with the 10th highest GPA says, "I'm so proud to have graduated at the top of this class. What an honor."
Does anyone think the nine students who graduated with higher GPAs are going to stand there and nod in agreement?
It is laughable.
Donald Trump earned a degree from Wharton. That is commendable. Embellishing it with the lie that he was top of his class diminishes what he did accomplish.
NEW: The U.S. is ramping up its intelligence-gathering efforts in Greenland, deploying its spy apparatus to support Donald Trump’s campaign to take control of the island. -WSJ
They are laughing you, son. Every day and twice on Sunday.
David Frum @davidfrum The essence of the Trump communications philosophy is that anybody dumb enough to believe anything Trump says is a fool who deserves to be lied to.
Air Traffic problems caused by the incompetent Biden Administration, as headed by, in this case, a total novice and political hack, Pete B. I WILL FIX IT!!!
Air Traffic problems caused by the incompetent Biden Administration, as headed by, in this case, a total novice and political hack, Pete B. I WILL FIX IT!!!
These problems are occurring NOW under a Trump FAA that has made drastic cuts.
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had." - Wharton professor, William T Kelley
Just listen to Trump try to tell a story or anecdote, he can't stay on a single train of thought. He sounds like a guy talking to someone on his phone in 7/11 parking lot.
It's called the weave. And it takes a TON of intelligence to do it like Trump does - even Einstein (if he were alive), John Trump, etc couldn't do it.
Sad and accurate piece explaining that we have already lost our democracy. Institutions cannot speak freely against the ruling party anymore without fear of retribution. Universities, law firms, news orgs, politicians, companies have all been cowed by the ruling party in America and will not speak or act freely against Trump anymore.
That's it, boys. It's gone. You absolute idiots killed it.
We can theoretically build it back, but it's going to take the utter defeat of trumpism at the ballot box. And I don't see that happening, with the right wing mediasphere so powerful.
America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism. The Trump administration’s weaponization of government agencies and flurry of punitive actions against critics has raised the cost of opposition for a wide range of Americans. The Trump administration has taken (or credibly threatened) punitive action against a strikingly large number of individuals and organizations that it considers its opponents. It has, for example, selectively deployed law enforcement agencies against critics. President Trump directed the Department of Justice to open investigations into Christopher Krebs (who as the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency publicly contradicted Mr. Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020) and Miles Taylor (who, when he was a Department of Homeland Security official, anonymously wrote an opinion piece criticizing the president in 2018). The administration has also opened a criminal investigation into Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, who filed a lawsuit against Mr. Trump in 2022.
The administration has targeted major law firms for retribution. It effectively prohibited the federal government from hiring Perkins Coie; Paul, Weiss; and other leading law firms it perceived as friendly to the Democratic Party. It also threatened to cancel their clients’ government contracts and suspended their employees’ security clearances, preventing them from working on many cases related to the government.
Donors to the Democratic Party and other progressive causes also face political retribution. In April, Mr. Trump directed the attorney general to investigate the fund-raising practices of ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s main donor platform, in an apparent effort to weaken his rivals’ fund-raising infrastructure. Major Democratic donors now fear retribution in the form of tax and other investigations. Some have hired additional legal counsel to prepare for tax audits, congressional investigations or lawsuits. Others have moved assets abroad.
Like many autocratic governments, the Trump administration has targeted the media. Mr. Trump has sued ABC News, CBS News, Meta, Simon & Schuster and The Des Moines Register. The lawsuits appear to have weak legal bases, but because media outlets like ABC and CBS are owned by conglomerates with other interests affected by federal government decisions, a prolonged legal battle against a sitting president could be costly.
Biden and Obama weaponized the government, especially the IRS, against conservative groups. But now that the shoe is on the other food they're whining.
