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LOLOL That IS creative. Hahahaha, assuming only YOU could have created it. ;-)

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Former Wharton Professor: "Donald Trump Was the Dumbest Goddam Student I Ever Had."


Donald J. Trump as Many Imagine Him in Class at Wharton on the Rare Occasions that He Attended Class

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Thursday October 12, 2017

Late Professor William T. Kelley taught Marketing at Wharton School of Business and Finance, University of Pennsylvania, for 31 years, ending with his retirement in 1982. Dr. Kelley, who also had vast experience as a business consultant, was the author of a then-widely used textbook called Marketing Intelligence -- The Management of Marketing Information (originally published by P. Staples, London, 1968). Dr. Kelley taught marketing management to both undergraduate and graduate students at Wharton. www.upenn.edu/… Dr. Bill was one of my closest friends for 47 years when we lost him at 94 about six years ago. Bill would have been 100 this year.

Donald J. Trump was an undergraduate student at Wharton for the latter two of his college years, having been graduated in 1968.
"Trump flaunts Wharton degree, but his college years remain a mystery" www.thedp.com/… https://www.thedp.com/article/2015/08/donald-trump-wharton-classmates

Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.”
I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this — “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.

This has relevance now because as recently as this week, President Trump has challenged the Secretary of State of the United States to an I.Q. contest. www.washingtonpost.com/… This came within two days after NBC reported that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the President a “moron” www.nbcnews.com/… or a “fucking moron” www.slate.com/… The President has frequently bragged that he was a great student at a great school (Wharton). time.com/… Thus, the public is entitled to a contrary view from somebody who was there (Dr. Kelley), and I faithfully report it here.

Bill Kelley was one smart cookie. His text book cited above — published in the late 1960s — was standard in his time in the then-new field of “marketing intelligence” and the necessity of using computers and data bases to manage it. See onlinelibrary.wiley.com/... which credits Bill for coining the quoted phrase.

Dr. Kelley’s view seems to be shared by other University of Pennsylvanians. Please see www.thedp.com/…, from the Daily Pennsylvanian, stating:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/12/1705902/-Former-Wharton-Professor-Donald-Trump-Is-the-Dumbest-Goddam-Student-I-Ever-Had

Another biographer, Gwenda Blair, wrote in 2001 that Trump was admitted to Wharton on a special favor from a “friendly” admissions officer. The officer had known Trump’s older brother, Freddy.

Trump’s classmates doubt that the real estate mogul was an academic powerhouse.

“He was not in any kind of leadership. I certainly doubt he was the smartest guy in the class,” said Steve Perelman, a 1968 Wharton classmate and a former Daily Pennsylvanian news editor.

Some classmates speculated that Trump skipped class, others that he commuted to New York on weekends. . . .

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1968 Wharton graduate Louis Calomaris recalled that “Don ... was loath to really study much.”

Calomaris said Trump would come to study groups unprepared and did not “seem to care about being prepared.”

Thanks and R.I.P., Bill Kelley! The words ring in my ears: “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.”


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/12/1705902/-Former-Wharton-Professor-Donald-Trump-Is-the-Dumbest-Goddam-Student-I-Ever-Had

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Lindsey Graham: Burr impeachment vote boosts Lara Trump Senate hopes

"fuagf, somehow Lara Trump’s email server entered a wormhole and I actually got some of your correspondance:"

Lindsey Graham crawls to Trump and claws to keep his supporters keen on controlling the party.

* North Carolina senator who will retire voted to convict Trump
* Lara Trump is reportedly interested in running for Senate
US politics – live coverage - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/us-politics-live/latest


Lara Trump addresses the Republican national convention in August 2020. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

Martin Pengelly in New York @MartinPengelly
Mon 15 Feb 2021 03.47 AEDT
First published on Mon 15 Feb 2021 03.27 AEDT

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Richard Burr’s vote to convict Donald Trump did not bring down the former president but it may have made Lara Trump “almost certain” to be nominated for the US Senate, key Trump ally Lindsey Graham said on Sunday.

Boris Johnson calls Trump impeachment over Capitol attack 'kerfuffle'
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/14/boris-johnson-capitol-attack-trump-impeachment-kerfuffle-joe-biden-clone

“Certainly I would be behind her because she represents the future of the Republican party,” the South Carolina senator said of the former president’s daughter-in-law, adding that the future should be “Trump-plus”.

Burr, a former chair of the Senate intelligence committee, will retire as a senator from North Carolina at the end of his current term.

On Saturday, he and six other Republicans voted to convict Trump on a charge of insurrection linked to the US Capitol attack. It made Trump’s second impeachment the most bipartisan ever but he was acquitted nonetheless.

Burr’s state Republican party condemned .. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/538789-north-carolina-gop-condemn-burr-for-impeachment-vote-against-trump .. what it called his “shocking and disappointing” vote.

Lara Trump is married to Eric Trump, the former president’s second son. She has been reported to be interested in running for Senate in her native state.

“The biggest winner I think of this whole impeachment trial is Lara Trump,” Graham told Fox News Sunday .. https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/13 . “My dear friend Richard Burr, who I like and I’ve been friends to a long time, just made Lara Trump almost a certain nominee for the Senate seat in North Carolina to replace him if she runs.

“Now certainly I would be behind her because she represents the future of the Republican party.”

In 2016, Graham famously predicted Trump would “destroy” the GOP if he was made its nominee for president. Once Trump won power, the senator switched to become one of his biggest boosters.

On Sunday, in an interview in which he occasionally spoke directly to the former president, he said his party should be “Trump-plus”, because “the most potent force in the Republican party is President Trump”.

“And at the end of the day I’ve been involved in politics for over 25 years,” Graham said. “The president is a handful and what happened [at the Capitol] on 6 January was terrible for the country. But he’s not singularly to blame. Democrats have sat on the sidelines and watched the country being burned down for a year and a half and not said a damn word, and most Republicans are tired of the hypocrisy.”

'I like Ivanka': Marco Rubio sweats over rumoured Trump Senate challenge
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/24/marco-rubio-sweats-ivanka-trump-senate-challenge

On Saturday, Graham first voted against the calling of witnesses in the impeachment trial, then switched to support it. After a deal was done to avoid that step, he voted to acquit.

Other Trump family members have been linked to runs for office. For example, the Florida senator Marco Rubio is widely expected to face a primary challenge from Ivanka Trump, the former president’s oldest daughter.

Lara Trump, 38, is a former personal trainer and TV producer who became a key campaign surrogate. Among other controversies, she claimed Joe Biden was suffering “cognitive decline .. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/lara-trump-claims-without-evidence-biden-suffering-cognitive-decline-when-challenged-on-mocking-stutter/ar-BB1a91BJ ..” and mocked his stutter. She earned widespread rebuke.

“These words come without hesitation,” Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the airline pilot and all-American hero .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/19/sully-sullenberger-joe-biden-stutter-lara-trump .. who also stuttered as a child, wrote in the New York Times.

“Stop. Grow up. Show some decency. People who can’t have no place in public life.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/14/lara-trump-richard-burr-north-carolina-senator-impeachment-trial-lindsey-graham