Trump Doesn't Want Anyone to See His High School Grades
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Trump Extremely Doesn't Want Anyone to See His High School Grades
Last week, when Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified before Congress, he aired a good deal of his former boss's dirty laundry, from Trump's involvement in paying off Stormy Daniels to his utter lack of faith in his oldest son's intelligence. But one of the pettier details that came out was Cohen's work making sure that Trump's school grades never saw the light of day.
During the hearing, Cohen presented a letter he wrote in May 2015 to Fordham University, where Trump went to school before transferring to University of Pennsylvania's Wharton, threatening legal action if Trump's grades ever became public. This was shortly before Trump declared his candidacy and several years after Trump demanded to see then-president Barack Obama's high school transcript to prove he hadn't been a "terrible student."
But apparently Cohen's writing Fordham wasn't the first time that Trump pressured one of his alma maters to make sure that his academic records were kept under wraps. A new story from the Washington Post reports that in 2011, his old high school, the New York Military Academy, the then-headmaster was pushed to make sure that no one would be able to access Trump's records from his time as a student. From the Post :
The superintendent of the private school “came to me in a panic because he had been accosted by prominent, wealthy alumni of the school who were Mr. Trump’s friends” and who wanted to keep his records secret, recalled Evan Jones, the headmaster at the time. “He said, ‘You need to go grab that record and deliver it to me because I need to deliver it to them.’ ”
The superintendent, Jeffrey Coverdale, confirmed Monday that members of the school’s board of trustees initially wanted him to hand over President Trump’s records to them, but Coverdale said he refused.
“I was given directives, part of which I could follow but part of which I could not, and that was handing them over to the trustees,” he said. “I moved them elsewhere on campus where they could not be released. It’s the only time I ever moved an alumnus’s records.”
It turns out that this was when Trump was still planning a 2012 run for the presidency and came just days after he started making noise about Obama not being a good enough student to get into Ivy League schools. Unlike with Fordham though, here Trump used rich, well-connected friends to make sure his ass was covered.
The thing is, it's hard to imagine that anyone would have changed their vote for or against Trump based on whatever his Fordham GPA was: His appeal or lack thereof isn't more or less intense if he had a 4.0 or a solid C minus. But Trump is, if nothing else, a preening narcissist, and as a result he often picks seemingly irrelevant and obviously false hills to die on: he's lied about historic his Electoral College win was, lied about his net worth to improve his Forbes ranking, and claimed that the Republican tax cuts he signed into law are the biggest in history, a lie that, to date, is still up on the White House's official website . He never works harder than he does when trying to fluff up some arbitrary, superficial measure of success.
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It turns out that this was when Trump was still planning a 2012 run for the presidency and came just days after he started making noise about Obama not being a good enough student to get into Ivy League schools. Unlike with Fordham though, here Trump used rich, well-connected friends to make sure his ass was covered.
The thing is, it's hard to imagine that anyone would have changed their vote for or against Trump based on whatever his Fordham GPA was: His appeal or lack thereof isn't more or less intense if he had a 4.0 or a solid C minus. But Trump is, if nothing else, a preening narcissist, and as a result he often picks seemingly irrelevant and obviously false hills to die on: he's lied about how historic his Electoral College win was, lied about his net worth to improve his Forbes ranking , and claimed that the Republican tax cuts he signed into law are the biggest in history , a lie that, to date, is still up on the White House's official website . He never works harder than he does when trying to fluff up some arbitrary, superficial measure of success.
'Last week, when Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified before Congress , he aired a good deal of his former boss's dirty laundry, from Trump's involvement in paying off Stormy Daniels to his utter lack of faith in his oldest son's intelligence . But one of the pettier details that came out was Cohen's work making sure that Trump's school grades never saw the light of day.'
I have an utter lack of faith that Rump has any measure of intelligence.
I don't have any faith in donny jr's intelligence, either. Or his sire for that matter
Anybody that goes to those kinds of lengths to keep something from being made public has lots to hide
So said Obama.
Pulling an Obama...
Trump sure does like to imitate his Democratic predecessors...
How so?
and Republican predecessors......
President Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School where he was The Editor of The Harvard Law Review while Donald Trump's professors remember him as "The Dumbest Student" they EVER suffered!
Obama is eloquent. Trump is functionally illiterate. So, there is that, too...
How do you or the people who voted up your comment know that any of what you claim is true? None of Obama's school records are public.
Thanks for the Bing link, but none of those sources include Obama's high school and/or college/post grad grades.
Since this seeded article moans about not having access to Trump's school grades, the author should also want to see all presidents' grades.
That was JBB's comment. Please show me anywhere in that comment where he said anything about Obama's grades.
Now let me quote this and this was what I was answering:
Once again, where did JBB say anything about Obama's grades?
Oh for fucks sake.
You know dear, it's nice to be important but its more important to be nice.
Yes, I know. Please feel free to use my avatar if you wish - It's available on Google Images.
Nah, I truly follow that, no need to announce it.
I'm glad that you do.
I'm glad that you often post the quote in your comments to me.
Gotta get the last word eh? Proceed
i could see Trumpp attempting, but i don't think Obama swings that way.
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Trump couldnt lift Obamas used rubbers
asz
he preferred bare feet there in Hawaii
Sean, you're no Dick Treacy, but there might be some sort of clue for you to formulate a theory as to Y Trump tends to 'project' what should of always been 'screened' to minimize the infection via the insecticide ways Trumpp attempts to raise concerns on others, as his utterly ridiculous behavior so fortified with excruciating bovine excrement asz to what it is he can't help but expose what it is
that he has most certainly really meant.
As in either a little bird(big little Dick) tweet, cause he obviously is closer to a vegan, when it comes to his meet
n greet his insecurities with all his beefs, with a giant screen capturing his projection for so many utters, that have proven he has squeezed all he can from a tasty lemon made from sour grapes he has exposed by being a little naked & afraid man, sitting on his thrown out the window Golden shower to stall, the inevitable reign falling with the bathwater that will not brake his, and/or the big baby's big fall, as depending, Depends on Diapers and all, asz his rash propensity to quick change with his little hands
the look the other direction of his dire(need to find his) erections of Big Manly
Walls so offensive, he must be defensive, cause he has become a long time ago sO obviously lacking and in need of aid, To the dull point ing to
a LACTAID
of TOLERANCE.
His pent up Cpac Pence like religious zealot style vent has an X pensive distaste
for Taste, coming after milked, like a probate in pre prubescent puberty gone domesticated out in the all the wild, as he attempts to bridge tunnels to thin air, with his fake hair wigg outs, his follically challenged heir, apparent Lee , (another General he new more than) Grant Ted his excellent adventure wished to be with Bill, while we got stuck with it, by being shot
up in the foot stuck in his mouth attached to his suite tie, via his up in arms, with chairs men and women as with all his junk , key is to clean out the Trunk of all the junk, keyed cars alike an auto matic manual truck transmitting TV dinner waves served in diners via Radio, activities that include in order to hang
more than off X surfers, you need eleven
to surf the outer spaces of the internet to catch what i allude to, 4 if you have creed
it's more than just an illusion
Trump demanded that Obama release his school records .... he's such a hypocrite.
What else is new. All politicians, and it seems their factions are.
Likewise the left shouldn't give a damn about Trump's grades since they defended Obama not releasing his.
Trump takes hypocrisy to an entirely new level.
If Obama had demanded that someone else show their grades, then I would have absolutely expected him to show his. That's the only reason I care about this - because Trump keeps making huge stinks about things that he refuses to do himself. He doesn't hold himself to any standards at all. If he thought it was so damned important that Obama show his grades, he should have no problem with showing his own.
I'll grant that Trump may be of average intelligence. Although he says an incredible amount of indefensibly stupid stuff, some of that may be an act to appeal to his base. But I see absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Trump is at all above average in intelligence. More often than not he acts like a moron.
I honestly think he is mentally retarded in some way, no offense to those who suffer true impairments.
I got a kick out of Comey’s analysis of Trumps intelligence.
"He strikes me as a person of above average intelligence“
Gee John, you must have a much lower bar for average than I. Other than being a master manipulator and consummate con man, I find the fellow to be quite the dolt.
i'm glad no A before Dolt,
unless,
followed by SSHOLE
Meh .... like health records, school records are private. Nobodies business if you don't care to share them.
Now was Trump being hypocritical by asking for Obama's while not wanting to share his? Sure. But so are all the pricks asking for Trumps records while not sharing theirs.
And the wheel goes around and around, round and around .....
how many people threaten their alumins over it...?
I don't know. Do you you?
Do you think Trump is the first person to do something like this?
Do you think private records, should be public?
1) of course there are pols that might hypocritically pull this same bull$hip
2) No, but i will on occasion drink a YOO HOO
3) No see #1
4) If they were, Y would "you you" call them "private records" ? , cause me me thinks they they should be then called
public records.
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If anyone wants to call out another as loudly and placentifull as after Trumps' Birther movement,
their privacy should be open to being aborted.
Whatever rationalizations and justifications you try use here, you will still be wrong.
Gotta go now. I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night and the breakfast buffet is almost over ....
Trump made it an issue by bragging about his grades after demanding that Obama show his, and was most likely lying. Otherwise why would he have insisted that his records be hidden as soon as he realized that his demands to see Obama's could bite him in the rear end? But I agree, school records really aren't anyone else's business. School grades don't really prove much about a person's qualification for many areas in politics, anyway. I don't want a doctor who barely passed med school (not that I'd ever know), but no President is ever going to be educated about everything he/she needs to know for the job. It's just not possible.
Education can be over rated IMO. Plenty of under educated/under achievers have gone on to do great things.
Gates, Allen, Jobs, McCain, Dell, Henry Ford, John D Rockefeller, etc, etc .......
Still ..... none of that changes the private nature of school records.
What do you call the person who graduated last in his/her medical school class?
Answer: Doctor
If the turd demanded President Obama show his grades - the turd needs to show his grades.