So how did this shell of a man come to be?
"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different."
Think of a rich, spoiled bully, totally uncontrollable: one whose father fostered his narcissism saying "everything he touches turns to gold" while pumping money into his son's projects and bailing him out repeatedly out of failures. Think of a kid who thought studying anything was pointless, because he was already rich and knew that if he stuck with his father he would become richer. Think of a kid who developed a fantasy world where he would never apologize because he was so very entitled. And think of a kid-turned-teen-turned man who eschewed reading anything past a headline because reading anything was difficult, boring and a waste of time.
And besides, anything worth knowing was on TV where money was king and news was encapsulated for his benefit. Sitting in front of a television instead of reading a book is for many Americans more enjoyable, but in Trump's case, watching TV substituted for formal education. Attending schools like Wharton was a necessary nuisance: he had to go to classes for appearances sake, but gleaning anything from instructors and books was as useless as interacting with classmates who were not in his class of "smart". One professor called Trump "the dumbest student I ever had." And some classmates recall him asking rather clueless questions in class.
"I went to an Ivy League school. I'm very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words," he said at a rally last December; Wharton, he said on Meet the Press, "is probably the hardest there is to get into," adding, "Some of the great business minds in the world have gone to Wharton."
"I know words. I have the best words." Statements like that have led Penn State to distance itself from Trump.
As for Trump's Wharton degree of Bachelor of Science in Economics, the man who told Larry King that before The Apprentice, he "didn't know what demographics were," may not have actually earned it - at least not in economics. Fred Trump's money may have helped him get out of Wharton as well as into it. In the meantime, others may have earned cash for taking his tests and writing his term papers.
A "very stable genius"?? Consider Randy Rainbow's hilarious take on that statement (see below). Such self indulgent over-the-top statements from Trump have invited, no, encouraged mockery. But encapsulated in his own clueless world, he doesn't see how ... or why. The same goes for the response to his address at the U.N. - "I wasn't expecting that." Trump's development summed up: he has probably suffered from a rare form of learning disability which one might facetiously label PECD - Progressive Entitlement Cognitive Deficiency resulting in an aversion to reading and learning ... anything. PECD also causes disdain for people with higher intelligence while building up a feeling of superiority. In short: a person with PECD is apt to know nothing while bragging that he knows everything. Sounds snarky, but when it comes to Trump ...
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