If they’re looking to MTG for “purity” and “virtue” they are going to be very disappointed.
(I assume you were deliberately “confusing” Slovakian and Slovenian.)
Told you nobody had ever heard of those languages ;-). It’s a conspiracy, I am sure.
Trump certainly likes to brag about this. Maybe someone familiar with business circles can clarify, but in the high-level business world doesn’t saying you graduated from Wharton imply you have a MBA from there? Sorta like where one went to law or medical school?
And, back in the '60s, Wharton undergrad may not have been as selective as later on and Trump had his brother pull some strings to help get him in:
James Nolan was working in the University of Pennsylvania’s admissions office in 1966 when he got a phone call from one of his closest friends, Fred Trump Jr. It was a plea to help Fred’s younger brother Donald Trump get into Penn’s Wharton School.
“He called me and said, ‘You remember my brother Donald?’ Which I didn’t,” Nolan, 81, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “He said: ‘He’s at Fordham and he would like to transfer to Wharton. Will you interview him?’ I was happy to do that.”
At the time, Nolan said, more than half of applicants to Penn were accepted, and transfer students such as Donald Trump had an even higher acceptance rate based on their college experience. A Penn official said the acceptance rate for 1966 was not available but noted that the school says on its website that the 1980 rate was “slightly greater than 40%.” Today, by comparison, the admissions rate for the incoming Penn class is 7.4 percent, the school recently announced.
“It was not very difficult,” Nolan said of the time Trump applied in 1966, adding: “I certainly was not struck by any sense that I’m sitting before a genius. Certainly not a super genius.”
Yes, people mean the MBA program.
It’s not unlike a doctor saying they went to Johns Hopkins. They mean they attended for medical school. Though in that particular case, the undergraduate program is also one of those private elite, highly selective deals as well.
It should shock nobody that Trump is the sort to exaggerate or fabricate the magnitude of his personal accomplishments. Like most other things, he’s not especially good at it, either.
Thanks! If, God forbid, he manages to get reelected, I will always refer to him as ‘presidario trump’.
At least one Trump version of
exists but it could be better.
[nitpick] (note - I know Pardel-Lux didn’t write this, it was The Guardian) How many daughters does Trump have? I thought only 2. Thus, Tiffany is the younger daughter.
Not everyone at Wharton is boasting about him.
Recent events in Argentina have forced us to invent other “Presidente” derived words, I offer them to you so our suffering is of some use to others:
The first and most relevant: “Presidengue” is a pormanteau with Dengue, the disease.
The second and probably not useful for Trump is “Presiduende” a portmanteau with “Duende” (Gnome, small elf or fairy), which refers to our president’s small stature and somewhat err… fanciful mental state.
Yes, I imagine those professions where you need the minimum of a terminal academic or professional degree, they don’t care so much about where you got your undergrad although I’m sure it can help with networking and preferences.
Two that we know of.
So good…
Brilliant!
Giuliani’s radio show has been cancelled because the Republican billionaire who owns the station is sick of his election conspiracy theories.
I stream WABC almost every morning for my right-wing nut job news. Rudy is going to be missed.
Barron says he’s too busy to be a delegate for his “dad”.
“My view is that nobody really knows but we had made a company policy. It’s over, life goes on."
So Catsimatidis is a nutter, but he doesn’t want to get sued (again).
“Are they booing me?”
“No! They’re saying… Boo-jorie! Boo-jorie!”
Speculation is that he never actually volunteered or showed interest in being a delegate, and they just announced it figuring they’d just pressure him into it after the fact.