“I went to an Ivy League school. I’m very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words,”
After pantomiming mocking a disabled reporter. “Who would mock a disability?” Trump told Jake Tapper. “I would never. I’m a smart person. I went to the Wharton School of Finance.” (The Wharton School of Finance) “is probably the hardest there is to get into. “Some of the great business minds in the world have gone to Wharton.”
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Wharton sophomore Owen O’Hare, a College Republican at the University of Pennsylvania, said students feel “disgust” and “bewilderment” at Trump’s rise. “Just the fact that he graduated from Penn without any greater respect or understanding for other people, other cultures and other viewpoints is somewhat shocking,” he said. O’Hare plans to vote for Hillary Clinton. Other campus Republicans have voiced support for Trump but have stayed mostly in the shadows, refraining from any public demonstration of the sort that has affected other schools: A short-lived “Penn for Trump” group folded after a few months last year.
Over 4,000 members of the Wharton community penned an open letter that denounced the candidate this past summer, insisting that Trump “does not represent us” and that the school has been used “to legitimize prejudice and intolerance.” The letter included the names of at least 30 professors. “There are a lot of Wharton students who have the right idea about how they fit into the world, but who are feeling a little diminished by this,” said Brousse, the development officer.
An investigation published last week by the campus newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, found that Donald Trump may have given over a million dollars to Penn over the course of the past three decades. The university responded in kind, and bestowed plenty of rewards on Trump himself. The Wharton Club of Washington, D.C., named him one of the “leading alumni” at the group’s 2014 Joseph Wharton Awards Dinner. In 2007, he was included in Wharton Alumni Magazine’s list of the school’s 125 most influential people. (In a blurb accompanying his name, the magazine called Trump “The Best Known Brand Name in Real Estate.”)