I did a little reading about Fred Trump’s Beach Haven apartments (in typical Trump fashion, nearly a mile from the beach.) It was sold a long time ago and the new owners were fined 400K in 2016 for dumping raw sewage into Coney Island Creek. Really makes you want to head down to the beach and take a swim.
True. Remember Sebastian Gorka? He insists on being call “Dr.” because of his PhD. However:
Let’s start small-ball at home. Appointed deputy assistant to the president in January 2017, Seb Gorka endeared himself to the U.S. President by being one of the most on-message, belligerent and fanatical supporters of the “Make America Great Again” worldview, particularly when being interviewed on cable television. He was pushed out of the White House in August 2017, reportedly by incoming Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Gorka, who was born in the U.K. to Hungarian parents, received his PhD in political science from Corvinus University in Budapest. When Gorka rose to national prominence alongside Trump as a national security “expert” in Islamic extremism and jihadist movements, other academics began parsing the academic record of this virtual unknown. The reviews were not flattering. Regarding his thesis, one academic opined that: “It’s not remotely something that I would consider scholarship. It does not deploy evidence that would satisfy the most basic methodological requirements for a PhD in the U.S.”
“Gorka’s thesis is about as legitimate as if he had been awarded it by Trump University,” retorted another U.S.-based academic, noting that of the three individuals who endorsed Gorka’s PhD, two weren’t even academics, and the third was a right-wing Hungarian member of the European Parliament and noted Islamophobe with family ties to Gorka. It’s entirely possible that different countries have different qualifications for the award of PhDs, but even by that standard, Gorka’s academic record leaves much to be desired. (The former White House adviser declined to comment to Rolling Stone about the allegations).
I once saw a figure from Gorka’s dissertation years ago. As I remember it, the figure was a hand-drawn scale continuum that showed “Terrorism = bad” or something like that. It seemed too simplistic for a high school essay.
Back in the 1980’s I used to type papers for college students for some extra cash. I want to emphasize that I was converting written by the student papers into a typed form.
I was, from time to time, offered significantly greater sums to actually compose papers for various college students. I didn’t, because 1) it was unethical and 2) I typically didn’t know enough about the topic to compose a coherent paper.
But yes, that sort of thing is very much a thing. I have not doubt there are still people composing papers for college students for money. Probably even easier to pull off these days with a little AI help.
If Trump wanted to be called “Doctor” he would just say that and his sycophantic supporters on places like Fox who would start calling him that tomorrow. They would call it akin to a “honorary doctorate”. He is after all the most brilliant human being to have ever lived of course. They would feel completely and seriously justified in this decision. No degree needed.
As for not calling Jill Biden by her proper title, that’s just pure spite. Any reason, no matter how petty, to avoid showing respect to a Democrat anywhere for any reason.
Liberty gave him two (Dr. of Buisness in 2012 and Dr. of Laws 2017 
), and there are some other Institutions that gave him honorary degrees before he became president, but have since withdrawn them.
Apropos of nothing, I used to do it the other way around. Back then, I was the only one with a word processor and a printer in my apartment, so I’d charge a couple of bucks to type and print classmates’ papers. And because I was reading half a dozen or more papers by other people, I’d glean enough information to cobble together my own paper afterward, without the need to do any of the reading or research. It worked quite well for me.
Was it this figure?
While I would normally want to give the author the benefit of the doubt here (most dissertations or theses could be cherry-picked for an image that’s actually a jumping-off point for explaining concepts), I won’t because:
- The full thesis isn’t available online to clarify if it was a cherry-pick
- The only academic essays I can find of his are similarly awful, and seem to have kindergarten-level images too (see page 13 of this PDF)
- Fuck Sebastian Gorka
I’d guess this was the plan all along. No reason for him to get an MBA when getting a bachelors is all that’s needed to be able to say ‘I graduated from Wharton’. As dasmoocher said, stating that you went to Wharton implies you got an MBA and, for Trump, well, it’s all about the implication.
I’m pretty sure that’s it. I think I may have thought it was hand-drawn because it’s so amateurish. I’m not sure what the figure’s purpose is besides to fill up space. The information it’s communicating could be stated in a single sentence.
For those who haven’t clicked on the image link, the title is “Terrorism and the Scale of Confict” and there’s an continuum arrow labeled “Peacekeeping” at one end and “Thermonuclear War” at the other. A bubble labeled “Terrorism” is underneath the arrow with its own arrows in either direction pointing at "?"s, presumably to indicate that it’s uncertain exactly where terrorism lies on this scale.
Wow! Terrorism lies somewhere between peace and thermonuclear war! Give that man a doctorate.
(Yes, I agree the imagine is missing context and maybe there’s text not shown that explains more, but I also agree with Fuck Sebastian Gorka.)
Herr Doktor Präsident Trump.
Use of AI in college papers is rampant these days, as one might expect. The spouse works at a higher education institution and it’s one of the banes of her existence.
A humorous interjection:
On the TV show “Wings” (great show about two pilot brothers, Joe & Brian, who ran a single-plane airline on Nantucket), the simple & earnest mechanic Lowell asked Joe to be the speaker when he graduated from M.I.T. at the top of his class. Joe was stunned to find out that Lowell had attended, let alone graduated from such a high-powered, prestigious institution, and he agreed immediately. When the time came for Joe to make the speech, it came out that it wasn’t THAT M.I.T., it was “Murray’s Institute of Tools,” a three week program in Boston. But Lowell DID graduate at the top of his class.
So trump could have attended a couple of night classes at Wharton and claimed a degree from there.
Trump does have an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School–the business school at the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania–but that’s not an MBA, which is implied when someone name-drops “I went to Wharton” when talking about their business education.
The Wharton School awards undergraduate and graduate degrees with a school-specific economics major and concentrations in over 18 disciplines in Wharton’s academic departments. The undergraduate degree is a general business degree focused on core business skills. At the graduate level, the Master of Business Administration program can be pursued by itself or along with dual studies leading to a joint degree from its law, engineering, and government schools.
ETA: I remember hearing some joke about a Texas politician where the comic referred to the person’s Sam Houston Institute of Technology education–the joke was that it was a SHIT degree.
I went to Harvard.
For like a couple of hours, to kill time on a rainy day, saw a natural history museum of some sort.
But technically, I went to Harvard.
Simpsons did it!
(Springfield Heights Institute of Technology)
That’s where Apu went after he finished at CalTech (in Calcutta). I thought there was a MIT (Mumbai) reference in there as well.
Ha! I’m reminded of Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati. Johnny states that he went through Princeton.
“You went through Princeton?” somebody asks, rather incredulously.
“Yeah. I was in the back of a police car.”
I can do that one better. During a business trip to Cambridge, MA, I went to both Harvard and MIT.
Overachiever! 
Oooh that is impressive!
Though I also have University of Toronto, McGill, University of Edinburgh, and a few other smaller ones under my belt.