Trump has never read a book6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Over the years, there have been rumors about how Trump might have gotten into Penn in the first place, and how much - or how little - he’s donated to the school as an alum. In truth, Trump’s Wharton GPA is just one of many mysteries surrounding the 45th president’s relationship with Penn, Philadelphia’s most powerful private institution, which, unwittingly or not, helped unleash Trump on the world. For everyone that had known him then and years afterward, the assumption was that he had terrible grades, he was a lackluster student at best.” I’ve spoken to friends of Trump from that time, and this was a guy that was obviously not interested in school and possibly never read a book in his life. “The focus of that for Trump is the college transcripts, which are apparently terrible. “This was a major, major thing with Trump - that people might think he’s stupid,” Michael Wolff told me around the time of Siege’s publication earlier this summer. (Per Penn’s student newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, he publicly name-dropped Wharton 52 times between June 2015 and January 2018.) But despite all his humblebragging about that Wharton degree, Trump has never allowed his academic performance there to be made public. Trump famously graduated from Penn’s Wharton School in 1968 - a fact he reminds audiences of over and over again. But, he wondered, “What if they have his college transcript?”Īhh, the college transcript. As Bannon told Wolff, “nobody gives a fuck” about that stuff. tried to buy Hillary’s emails? His tax returns? Nah. Speculation within Trump’s inner circle was that Putin must have something on Trump. Or, as grizzled, now-banished White House aide-de-camp Steve Bannon describes it in Siege, Michael Wolff’s decadent and depraved follow-up to 2018’s Trumpworld tell-all Fire And Fury, “like a beaten dog.” The Russian president looked smug and sated, like a vampire with a bellyful of peasant blood Trump looked like a man who’d just received a painful enema. When President Donald Trump emerged from his mysterious one-on-one summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July of 2018, the respective visages and body language of the two world leaders could not have been further apart. ![]() It was, it can be said without fear of exaggeration, a day that will live in infamy. Locust Walk photo courtesy University of Pennsylvania Trump photo by Tasos Katopodis/Stringer/Getty Images What do we really know about Donald Trump at Wharton? We examined the facts.
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