Former Wharton Professor: 'Trump Was the Dumbest G*ddamn Student I Ever Had'

[highplainsdem]

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/former-wharton-professor-trump-was-dumbest-gdamm-student-i-ever-had

The 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. 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). Kelley taught marketing management both to undergraduate and graduate students at Wharton. Dr. Bill was one of my closest friends for 47 years when we lost him at 94 about six years ago. Hel would have been 100 this year.

Donald J. Trump was an undergraduate student at Wharton for the latter two of his college years, having graduated in 1968.

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 goddamn 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 has relevance now because as recently as this week, President Trump challenged the Secretary of State of the United States to an IQ contest. This came within two days after NBC reported that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the President a “moron” or a "f**king moron." The president has frequently bragged that he was a great student at a great school (Wharton). 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 textbook was standard in his time in the then-new field of “marketing intelligence” and the necessity of using computers and databases to manage it. (See onlinelibrary.wiley.com which credits Bill for coining the quoted phrase.)

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[Tracyjo]

1. Totally believe it n/t

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

52. Explains all the bankruptcies.

[Sneederbunk]

2. We need to see his college transcripts.

[marybourg]

17. Didn't he at one time demand

to see Pres. Obama's transcripts?

[iluvtennis]

25. Yes Don the Con did. I seem to recall there was a $500K offering for Pres O's transcripts.

[TheBlackAdder]

46. I'd like to see his college essays, in order to see how many different people wrote them for him.

I know there is more than one writer, because he probably fucked them over somehow after getting them.

[HipChick]

3. Figures..

[janterry]

4. Then he should have flunked him

..............just saying

[BootinUp]

9. His Daddy bought him everything

[BootinUp]

13. Sounds like perfect being the enemy to me.

[Kingofalldems]

14. The story is suspect because Trump's daddy bought him everything?

You question the integrity of a Wharton professor?

[former9thward]

22. What grade did he give him?

[Kingofalldems]

40. You asked the same question below.

Maybe Trump will release his transcript when he releases his taxes.

[Mariana]

55. Maybe he did. nt.

[gademocrat7]

5. So true.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Oh, no! He is the most fantastically brilliant person who ever lived!

He told us so. And you know he would never lie about something like that.

[JDC]

7. The Dumbest GD President weve ever had needs to start somewhere..

[Best_man23]

16. That is bumper sticker worthy

[BootinUp]

8. Quelle surprise? Lol. Nt

[dubyadiprecession]

10. A Professor and a Secretary of State that speak about trump in fluent French.

[tanyev]

11. One might even say a f**king moron.

[BigmanPigman]

15. All of the fucking moron's spawn also went there.

I wonder if they were equally stupid.

[brush]

19. Legacy admittee$ no doubt.

[milestogo]

18. Trump tries to make it sound like he went to the Wharton School of Business

when in fact he went to the School of Assholery for Grifters and Con Men.

[ProudLib72]

20. See, that proves it again how wonderful he is!

He came in first in Dumbest Goddamnery at Wharton. Now that is an accomplishment worthy of headline news worldwide. All of our country's winning makes me so proud!

[former9thward]

21. What grade did he give him?

Interesting he is silent on that.

[NJCher]

44. speaking as a professor

I can tell you that is not the case. Grades are confidential. If Trump wants to make it public, fine, but no professor should ever reveal a student's grade, even if the student is Trump.

The professor never stated the grade as a matter of professional behavior.


Cher

[former9thward]

53. Oh really?

Since you are "speaking as a professor" wouldn't you give the "dumbest G*ddamn student you ever had" a F? Yet Trump graduated. Is it in your opinion " a matter of professional behavior. " to name one of your students "the dumbest G*ddamn student you even had"?

[SummerSnow]

23. lol...

[smirkymonkey]

24. Trump said he graduated #1 in his class.

It is well known that he was not even in the top 15%. There is no record of him placing highly. His claim is a blatant lie.

He might have been able to get away with this bullshit in the construction industry, but Washington is an entirely different ball game. People are fact checking all the time and his lies are finally being exposed. Finally, the world is beginning to see him for the fraud he really is and he is panicking.

[iluvtennis]

26. Don the Con claimed he was magna cum laude during the primaries, that was a lie - link to article

A Penn commencement program from 1968 lists Trump as graduating from Wharton with a bachelor of science in economics, but does not include his name among those who received honors or other awards. The program lists 15 undergraduates who graduated cum laude from Wharton that year, four of whom graduated magna cum laude and two with summa cum laude honors.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/Questions-linger-Donald-Trump-academic-record-Wharton.html

[smirkymonkey]

29. I just can't believe how much he lies and thinks he can get away with it.

He's obviously unhinged. He's not just stretching the truth, he's just making shit up out of thin air.

[iluvtennis]

31. Absolutely correct.

[Xolodno]

32. Whoa...wait... Bachelors in Science in Ecnomics?

WTF?! Who in the fucking blue hell did he pay off or bribe?! No fucking way he earned that. A science degree in Econ will fucking blow your mind. It ain't just some theory which is hard in itself, its theory and plenty of math, in other words the "word problems" that were for extra credit back in grade-middle-high school that very few did, because it was nucking futs hard.

I should know, I got my degree in Econ under the science designation....AND specialized in International Trade Theory and Environmental Economics... This bafoon can't even accept Obama's crowd was larger when its plain as day and can't even fucking wrap his head around Economies of Scale.

[iluvtennis]

33. I agee. I've always believed Trump's Ivy league degree was bought by daddy dearest...

..he was a fk-up in regular school and had to be sent to a boys military school. Now ay would he have the discipline to get through 4 ears of college.

[rogerashton]

34. You are probably a lot younger than Trumpie

The math and econometrics (specialized statistics) were not yet required in many programs in the 1960s. And as for economies of scale, I know some economics profs who got their PhDs in this century who can't wrap their minds around that.

[Xolodno]

41. Oh dear lord.....

So if I say we should run a regression, he would say, "maybe you should see a doctor for that".

He probably barely skirted by on the theory and only perked up when it was something he wanted to hear.

[Xipe Totec]

51. He decided to go into the Casino business after a lecture on Monte Carlo simulations nt

[rogerashton]

54. Plus --

when the economics degree is granted by a business school, rather than a college of arts and sciences, the degree would be BS (or BBA) since business schools do not grant BA degrees. A BA from the dept. of economics in the CAS might actually have more science content than the BS from the business school. I don't know whether Wharton would have been any exception.

As to regression, if Trumpie could distinguish between a beta and a beetroot, he wouldn't have gone bankrupt how-many-times.

[dalton99a]

27. Trump has been a fucking moron since the day he was born

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Yes but

Intelligence is elitist in right wing world.

[DBoon]

30. Obama was proof a smart, compassionate Black man could become president

Trump is proof that the most most stupid and meanest white man could still become president

[malaise]

36. Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.

Nothing has changed - he knows more than everyone else including experts in their various fields.

[HughBeaumont]

37. Put into office by the dumbest goddamned voting base we've ever seen.

A runaway snowball of leftovers from Grifterella's hate stir-up thought this loser in office would be an amazing idea . . . . kind of like they're convinced white people are never to blame for anything, rich people ARE looking out for your best interests, and man-made global warming IS a hoax.

[Wounded Bear]

38. Trump thinks he already knows everything he needs to know...

He might be as "smart" as Einstein but the fact that he believes he's better than everybody else means he'll never learn anything.

[MineralMan]

39. That's no surprise. Not at all.

[Moral Compass]

42. Ive often wondered about this

We’ve all gone to school with this guy. The guy that knows freaking everything before he ever walked in the door of a college classroom. The fact that he is continually being corrected and is never really right about anything doesn’t seem to faze this brand of idiot. I’ve seen Trump do his brag about Wharton and all that and I was absolutely convinced that if we talkes to the professors they would’ve told us that he was as dumb as a box of doorknobs.

Nice to get some confirmation.

[Maraya1969]

43. I really really really hope Trump takes am IQ test. He'll probably say

the results are rigged but it will be out in the open just how stupid he is

[NastyRiffraff]

45. I'm not at all surprised

Dump's combination of being--um--not too bright and his arrogance is deadly. He thinks he knows everything when he knows nothing.

[Crowman2009]

47. The Drumpfster Fire is the real-life Billy Madison.

[Demtexan]

48. If he is so smart why go to school.

His father bought him his grades.

[Le Gaucher]

49. Doesn't matter.. He was smart enough (with help) to become president

I don't frigging care what anyone thinks of the fucking bastard. I don't need anyone needs any external validation for their opinion on the pussy grabber.

The only thing that matters is that we focus on limiting the damage he can do through his use of executive privileges and his asshole party members in congress.

[yuiyoshida]

50. Not surprising...

not at all, no indeed.