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milestogo

(20,661 posts)
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:12 PM Friday

Instead of having a president who went to Harvard, we have one who attacks Harvard

and other elite schools.

Instead of being proud of US schools and their academic excellence, he is determined to destroy them.

Are little kids now supposed to dream of growing up and going overseas to study?

Are todays children even going to aspire to excellence?

"Be stupid like Don." He should put it on the red hat.

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C_U_L8R

(47,367 posts)
1. The Ivy League should stick together, like a league
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:18 PM
Friday

Maybe it's time to start revoking degrees, starting with the low-scoring Wharton undergrad.

If you don't stand up for something, you stand for nothing.

FakeNoose

(37,471 posts)
2. Our goal should be to expunge him from the history books in the near future
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:20 PM
Friday

... just as the Germans have tried to do with Hitler.

Walleye

(40,683 posts)
3. I'm sure Trump hates anybody who graduated from Harvard. Especially those who didn't cheat like he did.
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:28 PM
Friday

fujiyamasan

(194 posts)
4. Trump attended UPenn, another ivy league
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:29 PM
Friday

I think democrats should tread lightly here. Yes, defending academic independence and freedom is important, but Harvard and the Ivy League are not sympathetic victims and not likely to get democrats any political traction.

Much of the public at this point feels more than a whiff of resentment at the elites and their institutions.

Remember Cruz, Rubio, Hawley, and plenty of others on the right are Harvard grads too. Plenty of ass holes have come out of these schools.

gab13by13

(28,266 posts)
8. He had help to begin with,
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:46 PM
Friday

He paid someone to take his SAT tests.

His older brother Fred was very good friends with Wharton's admission officer.

milestogo

(20,661 posts)
6. Well all these elite schools have a rich boy track.
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:37 PM
Friday

That's how Dubya got his MBA from Harvard.

But I think Trump truly resents Obama the most because he is brilliant and has the credentials.

gab13by13

(28,266 posts)
7. Nice article about Krasnov and Wharton
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:43 PM
Friday

A few of the findings;

Krasnov got help to be admitted to Wharton, Krasnov's older brother Fred, was very good friends with the admissions officer.

Yes, one of Krasnov's professors at Wharton called Krasnov the dumbest goddamn student he ever had.

Krasnov's claim about finishing 1st in his class was a lie. Wharton's record of people who graduated with honors does not mention Donald Trump.

Michael Cohen, who was Krasnov's lawyer, threatened to sue Penn back to the stone ages if it released Krasnov's grades.

Nice article to read.

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/09/14/donald-trump-at-wharton-university-of-pennsylvania/

gab13by13

(28,266 posts)
12. Yes, it's in the article I linked, it did not give him an honorary degree.
Fri May 23, 2025, 03:03 PM
Friday

Unless it gave him one after the article was written.

UTUSN

(74,259 posts)
11. Schools don't have to be elite for him to attack them.
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:55 PM
Friday

Wrecking standard curricula, Dept of Ed, making up his own "university".




SWBTATTReg

(25,331 posts)
14. Jealous much, eh, donnie boy?
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:45 PM
Friday

As stupid as you continue to show all of us, you're not ivy school material, by any measure.

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