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    Here jambo12; not locking horns but this snippet could untie
    a knot or two:

    Ralph Raymond, former Professor
    Answered April 16, 2018 · Author has 94 answers and 212.7K answer views

    Trump attended Fordham University for his freshman and sophomore years, and then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he received a bachelor of science degree in finance. He frequently boasts about "graduating from Wharton," Penn's business school, thereby conveying the misimpression that he holds Wharton's highly regarded MBA.

    He can pull off this slight of hand, because most prestigious American "business schools"--Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Northwestern, for example--give only the graduate master's degree in business administration (MBA.) But the Wharton School at Penn offers an undergraduate degree as well.
    Trump, always skilled at inflating his achievements, like his wealth, misleadingly manages to pass off an undergraduate degree as something considerably more than it is.

    Two other considerations are in order in assessing Trump's academic background, if it can be called that. First, Fred Trump, Trump's real estate mogul father, chose Wharton because at the time Wharton uniquely offered a narrowly focused vocational program in real estate.
    That fit the family business requirements perfectly. Second, Trump, senior, had the money to grease the admission wheels to get his underperforming son transferred into the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy institution. Finally, one might throw in the observation that Trump, junior's, performance at Wharton was as mediocre as it had been at Fordham.

    Besides two years of tuition and whatever admissions "donation" the elder Trump made to get his son into Penn in the first place, one can confidently say Wharton gained little from its brief experience with Trump, junior.
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    Whatever squabbles may continue post-Trump's White House residency;
    his in situ economic achievements will stand the test of time and accuracy.
    Just ditch the TDS embellishments.

    Cheers,
    Last edited by simgrund: 10/07/20
 
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