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MyNameIsKhan

(2,205 posts)
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 03:16 PM Aug 2016

Trump: “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same,”

Soft, surly, and academically uninterested, Donald was disruptive in class—so much so that his father, a real-estate tycoon of the outer boroughs, shipped him off to military school when he was thirteen. He did not set out to serve his country; he set out to multiply his father’s fortune. “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same,” Trump has said. “The temperament is not that different.”

[link:http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-and-putin-a-love-story/amp#|

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Trump: “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same,” (Original Post) MyNameIsKhan Aug 2016 OP
Unfortunately he doesn't realize that makes him a failure as a person mythology Aug 2016 #1
Well, I have to admit, for once he's right! Bill USA Aug 2016 #2
LOL MynameisBlarney Aug 2016 #3
 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
1. Unfortunately he doesn't realize that makes him a failure as a person
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 03:25 PM
Aug 2016

If you didn't grow from first grade, you've wasted a lot of time.

Even more unfortunately, I can't actually disagree with his assessment.

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