Anytime his intelligence is in question, President Donald Trump always claims that the college he attended proves that he’s smart, remarking:
“I went to the Wharton School of Business. I’m, like, a really smart person.”
But it turns out that Trump didn’t get into Wharton — which is at the University of Pennsylvania — because he was a scholar, according to The Washington Post, which reports that former admissions officer James Nolan says the reason Trump was admitted had everything to do with a phone call made by his older brother, Fred Jr.:
“He called me and said, ‘You remember my brother Donald?’ Which I didn’t.” [Trump Jr.] said, ‘He’s at Fordham and he would like to transfer to Wharton. Will you interview him?’ I was happy to do that.”
After meeting with young Donald, Nolan recalled that he didn’t exactly consider him to be very bright:
“I certainly was not struck by any sense that I’m sitting before a genius. Certainly not a super genius.”
The Post report is just the latest evidence that while Trump loves to claim he’s a self-made man, he’s had everything handed to him on the proverbial silver platter, as HuffPost notes:
Last year, the New York Times reported that, contrary to the president’s claims that he transformed a “small loan” of $1 million from his father into a “massive empire,” Fred Trump Sr. actually loaned his son at least $140 million in today’s dollars.
Trump’s dad also helped his son avoid financial ruin more than a few times, such as in 1990 when he sent one of his bookkeepers to Atlantic City in 1990 to buy $3.5 million in casino chips so his son could make a bond payment.
Yes, we have a supposedly brilliant man who only got into college thanks to his brother. A great businessman who had to be repeatedly bailed out by his daddy. A man so successful in the real estate business that he filed for bankruptcy on three separate occasions, and had multiple casinos go belly-up even though casinos always make money.
Donald Trump is a fraud and a con man. He has never worked a day in his life and his so-called “accomplishments” are nothing more than lies, puffery, and outright BS. That’s probably why he’s made such a terrible president and an even worse human being.
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