About That Student, Long Ago

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For years, President Donald Trump has said it’s clear that he is “a very smart guy” since he attended Wharton — a school he describes as “super genius stuff.” Donald Trump attended Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. “I was a great student; I was good at everything,” he says. However, former classmates describe him as anti-social, loath to study and unprepared in class. A former professor described  him as about the worst student he’d ever had.

Donald tweeted in 2013: “Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault.”  No, Donald, you actually have a small, self-centered mind. You are not brilliant; you are merely conniving.

‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.’  Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity, but long before he was considered a political figure. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told the story that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.”  This quote was from a friend of the late professor (and author) William T. Kelley of the Wharton School. See among other sites: https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/former-wharton-professor-tr or http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/13/trumps-college-professor-confirms-moron-life.html

Reality keeps popping up, but Donald keeps blathering away with narcissistic lies and misrepresentation born of a rather plain mentality and a silver-spoon childhood.

Not long ago, he involved himself in a less-than-presidential wrangle with the widow of a GI killed in Niger. She claimed he couldn’t remember her late husband’s name. He said not so, that he has “one of the great memories of all time.” Once again, what’s presented as important by Donald is his personal image, even though it’s puffed up beyond all realistic proportion.

So what’s it really worth as he raves about the “greatest tax cut in history for the middle class?” It’s actually one of the greatest robberies of all time benefitting the nation’s ultra-wealthy.

A  few days after his “great memory” proclamation, he said he didn’t remember details of a meeting last year. “I don’t remember much about that meeting,” he said of the meeting where advisor George Papadopoulos said he could arrange a sit-down meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin. “It was a very unimportant meeting. It took place a long time ago. Don’t remember much about it.” Documents have come to light, and it appears the Trump campaign lied about having had no contact with Russia.

There were 35 times he said he didn’t remember something during a deposition in 2015 in connection with the lawsuit against the bogus Trump University.  There were 24 times he said he couldn’t remember during a separate Trump University lawsuit in 2012. 

Donald said at a Feb. 2016 town hall that he didn’t remember telling Howard Stern that he supported the war in Iraq, something he erroneously claimed as a candidate that he had opposed. “That was probably the first time—I don’t remember that but it was probably the first time I was asked about it,” he said.

And people still believe the baloney he dishes out about health care, tax cuts and all manner of other things critical to the well being of their families and themselves. 

“What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.”—Dan Quayle

ANOTHER QUOTE OF INTEREST, from a syndicated column (New York Times) by Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, regarding the proposed tax plan Donald Trump left in turmoil to spend a couple of weeks golfing around Asia and promoting himself in the manner of a diarrhetic bull.” . . . OK, some things are clear: The bill would give huge tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy, especially wealthy heirs, while opening new opportunities for tax avoidance. You won’t go far wrong if you think of the big tax cuts in this law as having been custom designed to benefit the Trump family.”

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