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TnDem

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6. re: degrees

Reply to EndlessWire (Original post)

Sat May 3, 2025, 10:06 PM

May 3

A standard BA degree is borderline useless now without experience anyway... Obama didn't campaign on his degree... Reagan, Nixon, LBJ and JFK all had degrees from the 1930's prior to WW2 when a degree was a BIG deal and Nixon was the one of them with a law degree....Hillary never could pass the DC bar exam and neither did FDR, and yet FDR served four terms as POTUS.

MANY military officers in WW2 didn't have a degree and many of them were bomber and fighter pilots...Vietnam was similar.

A simple undergraduate degree is shamefully easy now...Many studious high school seniors already have 60 college credit hours upon HS graduation with advance placement classes.

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So, Trump has a Bachelor's [View all] EndlessWire May 3 OP

The economics professor said he was his dumbest student ever Lithos May 3 #1

Stetson University College of Law BOSSHOG May 3 #2

Yes, it seems impossible that somebody as dishonest and dumb as Trump could get a degree without cheating. Doodley May 3 #3

If he truly believes foreign governments pay the tariffs, they should revoke that degree surfered May 3 #4

It was probably a case where he was just given the degree peacebuzzard May 3 #5

re: degrees TnDem May 3 #6

It's been disussed rlexx May 3 #7

Show me the transcripts. "Gentleman's C" is what I assume...nt Wounded Bear May 3 #8

No way he earned that degree. sheshe2 May 3 #9

Fred Trump paid good money for that degree chowmama May 3 #10

As someone who has imported goods from China... WarGamer May 3 #11

Someone needs to make an AI Wharton's dumbest graduate Historic NY May 3 #12

Oh, big deal, a BA from Penn? Hell, I have a BA from Penn. So, should I be president? DFW May 4 #13

Not that I'm nitpicking EndlessWire May 4 #14

If he got his degree from Wharton, it might have been an MBA DFW May 4 #15

Thank you for sharing your experience EndlessWire May 4 #16

I Don't Think It's An MBA ProfessorGAC May 4 #17

Trump's undergraduate professor at Penn / Wharton: "Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had." LetMyPeopleVote May 4 #18

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