Trump’s claim of being ‘first in his class’ at Wharton debunked
Records from Pennsylvania University's Wharton School of Business indicate President Donald Trump was not even in the top 15 of his graduating class.
President Donald Trump has been heralding his own accomplishments, claiming to be “a very smart guy,” but his claim that he graduated at the top of his class at Pennsylvania University’s Wharton School of Business is easy enough to debunk on its own.
According to a report from The Daily Pennsylvanian released on Thursday, the records from Pennsylvania University simply don’t back up his claims.
“Penn records and Trump’s classmates dispute this claim,” wrote Alex Rabin and Rebecca Tan in the report. “In 1968, The Daily Pennsylvanian published a list of the 56 students who were on the Wharton Dean’s List that year — Trump’s name is not among them.”
The program lists “20 Wharton award and prize recipients, 15 cum laude recipients, four magna cum laude recipients and two summa cum laude recipients for the Class of 1968. Trump’s name appears nowhere on those lists,” and Trump’s name is nowhere to be found there.
“Given that there are 366 listed 1968 Wharton graduates on QuakerNet, Penn’s alumni database, the Dean’s List of 56 students represents approximately the top 15 percent of the class. The omission of Trump’s name suggests that his academic record at Penn was not as outstanding as he has claimed,” Rabin and Tan stated.
