Trump: Obama wasn't smart enough for Harvard

[RandySF]

Manhattan real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.

"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."

Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

Obama's 2008 campaign did not release his college transcripts, and in his best-selling memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama indicated he hadn't always been an academic star. Trump told the AP that Obama's refusal to release his college grades were part of a pattern of concealing information about himself.

"I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard," Trump said. "We don't know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president."

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Trump-Obama-Wasnt-Good-Enough-to-Get-into-Ivy-Schools-120657869.html

[Pirate Smile]

1. This crap is so fucking disgraceful.

[izquierdista]

Friends must not be named "Bush".

That name seems to be good for a champagne and hookers welcome from Yale and Harvard.

[yardwork]

2. Trump is a filthy racist.

[elias49]

6. Truth.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

17. He's just a fool, a court jester from another planet

[lumpy]

22. And Trump needs to have his nose rubbed in something

very filthy. He has become the queen of conspiracy. He is worse than Ann Coulter and that is saying a lot.

[calimary]

24. Already happened. What's left got shoved up onto the top of his head.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. wow. the subtle racism is so charming

[Gormy Cuss]

But Trump did not mention race at all.

That CAN'T be what he meant. Trump has a great relationship with "The Blacks."

[hlthe2b]

4. Trump is race baiting....

As John Aravosis pointed out earlier on this story, what he really means is, how did a black guy get into a good school? It's a classic Republican tactic in a number of ways. First, it's racist. Second, attacking a Democrat on their strength - in this case accusing Obama of being dumb.


I would expand on that and suggest Trump wants to make his minions think racial preference/affirmative action to reinforce those known race-based animosities that burn among hard core white racist RWers.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. yup.

[PSzymeczek]

19. Magna from Harvard Law,

and President of the Law Review. You don't qualify for that without being highly intelligent. Stuff it, Donald.

[flamingdem]

5. This guy is a schmuk. nt

[blogslut]

8. You know what?

I want Trump to take this bullshit all the way over the edge. I want him to push this horrid crap so far that NBC won't renew his shitty teevee show and he and his damned comb-over will have to go back hustling suckers for a living.

[GomezLives]

9. Magna cum laude at Harvard is the top 20%

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. It's the top 10% for the law school.

Not too bad, I'd say.

[snappyturtle]

10. OMG! nt

[AsahinaKimi]

11. Donald Trump just seems to continue to show

how much of a bigot he really is.

[shanti]

12. trump

seems to think this is some kind of reality show. shameful!

[bluestateguy]

13. Keep it up

If they keep doing this by October of next year they will be forced to campaign to hold on to Kansas and Kentucky.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. Unfortunately, I think Arkansas would vote for this schmuck

unless his opponent was a Southern governor. That's how it's been for the last 40 years.

[bluestateguy]

21. Maybe they would

but Obama could make him earn it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. Isn't Donald Trump a casino owner?

how many degrees has donald?

[cap]

18. Harvard: Trump wasn't smart enough for ...

please fill in.

[Initech]

20. Trump should just go back to having Meatloaf and Gary Busey kill each other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItYAZLHrN9M

[lumpy]

23. Donald isn't smart enough to keep his ferking mouth shut.

All he is doing is proving he is a self promoting hatefull pissant.

[Toucano]

25. A new conspiracy, Donny? Old conspiracy not working so well or do you need to 'layer' them?

Obama wasn't smart enough to get into Harvard.

My friends with smart sons don't get to go to Harvard.

Therefore, someone* pulled strings to get Obama into Harvard, where he graduated magna cum laude.


Is this a conspiracy theory or an racist, affirmative-action based attack?


* Was it the Islamic Brotherhood, maybe? Donny's friends with smart sons don't pray to Mecca!

[MilesColtrane]

26. "I heard he was a terrible student"

I heard that Donald Trump gets sexual gratification from raping small mammals, ritually killing them, then drinking their blood.

See how easy that is?

[ecstatic]

27. "I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't

get into Harvard," Trump said.

Yeah, right. Trump is nothing more than a pathetic liar. I have a hard time believing anything he says now. Once your credibility is gone, you have nothing! :eyes: