trumpty dumpty's Fordham report card is in...

[iluvtennis]

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A D studnet with a 1.x GPA - what a dumbass. I've always believed his daddy purchased his degree.

[SunSeeker]

1. How was he able to transfer to U Penn - Wharton with those grades?

I mean, I know his family pulled some strings to get him in, but with grades that bad, I can't imagine why the University would agree to take him in.

Any info on who disclosed that "report card"?

It looks fake, it does not look like it was typed in the 1960s. The font of the grades looks modern.

I'm guessing Rosie is just joking around.

[SergeStorms]

2. Snopes has called it fake.

And with all the money and people TrumpCo. has threatened to keep them covered up, I tend to believe them. I'd love to believe he's really that stupid, and he most probably is. I have to trust Snopes on this one though.

[CrossingTheRubicon]

3. We should not spread fakes.

It is a fake. Stop.

[forgotmylogin]

4. I certainly didn't vote for D+onald to be president. (n/t)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I don't think this is real.

It wouldn't surprise me if his grades sucked but this does not look like the sort of transcript or report card that a college would have produced in the '60s. They used typewriters back then for everything; this looks like it was produced by a printer. They didn't have printers when Trump was in college.

[PatrickforO]

7. Now that you mention it, yeah it does.

[lunatica]

8. It's a Rosie O'Donnell tweet

Of course it’s a fake.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. Not arguing it's real, but....

there were printers back then. Wikipedia says he was at Fordham roughly from 1964 thru 1966. I started engineering school in 1965 where we had IBM computers (1620, 360) that had printers which may have been IBM Selectrics, or some other model that could have printed similar results.

Machine operators entered manual instructions into the mainframe computer from a unit that looked just like a Selectric, and it could print reports. However, most reports were printed using large wide-carriage printers that were so fast the ops learned how to play simple musical tunes with them, as the print heads had a high-pitched tone to them.

That font does not look like any I remember from that era, but my memory is quite foggy from those days. I do remember spending many hours in the computer lab entering programs onto punch cards for my classes.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. But that doesn't look like anything from a Selectric. It looks like

something that would be produced by a relatively modern desktop printer. I was in college at about the same time as Trump, and our report cards and transcripts looked nothing like that - everything was typed in Courier. I don't think the Selectric, which would have been a very new thing in 1964, had any other fonts when it was first introduced. Arial and Helvetica were only starting to be used in commercial printing in those days; a printer that could have produced that report card wouldn't have been in a college registrar's office.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

18. Agreed. I don't recall Selectric having a ball font like that either.

I'm so damned old, I'll bet I have a catalog listing those typewriter balls buried somewhere around here. I remember everyone wanted a Selectric, but no one I knew could afford one. We were so poor in college, if we needed a typewriter, we had to borrow one.

I came up in engineering starting in '65 and we did hand-drawn letting similar to that in ink, mainly for title blocks.

This should bring back some memories: http://typebarhead.blogspot.com/2012/04/ibm-selectric-typeball-fonts.html
That script font looks a lot like early script fonts from early MS Windows programs.

Fordham did officially disavow that thing (see post #16), so no doubt it's fake.......

[PatrickforO]

6. He got an F in statistics?

What a jerk.

[lunatica]

9. See post #8 above

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Even I did better in Statistics!

And math was not my strong suit - but I had to take it for my major.

[lunatica]

11. It's fake

It’s a Rosie O’Donnell tweet. His arch enemy.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. It wouldn't surprise me - he may have felt he didn't have to go to class...

[eShirl]

13. hoping Charles Pierce gives him a witty new nomen

like his "C+ Augustus" for GWB

[smirkymonkey]

14. I know this isn't real, but I am pretty sure his grades weren't much better than

this. If they were, he wouldn't make such an effort at keeping them a secret.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. As much as we would like otherwise, it's fake per Fordham...

Link to tweet

Text:
Fordham University @FordhamNYC
9:56 AM - Mar 8, 2019

The image is a forgery, not an actual Fordham University transcript. Fordham University respects the privacy of its students and alumni, and follows federal law regarding the handling and release of academic records https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html …


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