Trump awkwardly revisits old beef with Obama and it’s not what you might think
President Donald Trump on Wednesday revived a decades-long crusade against predecessor Barack Obama ― but it wasn’t about the former president’s place of birth.
This one questioned the legitimacy of Obama being accepted by Ivy League schools.
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Trump told a rally crowd in Arizona that Obama “got into college for different reasons than you did.”
“He’s not a smart guy,” the president continued.
Trump again declared himself a “genius” in a rambling revisiting of his self-proclaimed cognitive-test triumphs. The president also expressed anger that he wasn’t praised for his claims before launching into his attack on Obama.
Trump’s insecure beef with the higher education of the still-popular, two-term, non-impeached, non-convicted commander-in-chief dates back decades.
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In 2011 Trump was mulling a Republican run for president when he questioned then-President Obama’s academic qualifications.
“I heard he was a terrible student, terrible,” Trump said back then. “How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I’m thinking about it, I’m certainly looking into it. Let him show his records.”
While Obama noted he was not always an academic star in a memoir, he earned a political science degree from Columbia University in 1983 (after transferring from Occidental College) and later graduated magna *** laude Harvard Law School.
Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly blared to the world how smart he thinks he is and has constantly bragged about his Wharton School undergraduate background at the University of Pennsylvania.
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However, Trump’s college grades have remained a mystery, and he reportedly got special treatment from a Penn admissions official who went to school with Trump’s older brother Fred, according to a 2001 biography, “The Trumps.”
Interested in a longer look at Trump’s shallow dive into his intellectual capability on Wednesday? Here ya go: