February 27
On This Day In 2019
In 2011, and beyond, private citizen Donald Trump relentlessly mocked President Obama’s extraordinary academic achievements, baselessly claiming "I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?"
He continued: "I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his (academic) records." (Obama, by the way, was elected president of the Harvard Law Review, an immensely respected post.)
But it was without a hint of humiliation that Trump went to extraordinary efforts to hide his own academic transcripts.
Trump attended Fordham University in New York. OTDI 2019, the Fordham Ram newspaper explained that Trump’s team has threatened to sue his school, or anybody, who releases Trump’s records. Presumably, as we’ll see in October 19’s OTDI, it’s because Trump’s performance in school was…poor.
Sources/Links for further reading
The Fordham Ram has the story of Trumpian threats
NBC New York quotes Trump’s original tales
Summary: Trump hides his academic records; ashamed?