Sample Questions from the Trump University Final Exam
Trump University. Use these sample questions and the answer key provided to prepare for next week’s big test.
- Two plus two equals what?
(a) Maybe four.
(b) Could be four. Could be. Lotta people saying it’s five.
(c) I’m not saying it’s five; I’m saying it could be—could be five. You see these establishment hacks, losers, like Mitt Romney? Real crank. They hate me. They take answers like “could be” and say, “Oh, he says two plus two equals five.” I never said that. I never—I said “could be.” Could be six. We don’t know.
(d) All of the above.
(e) None of the above.
(f) D and E.
Answer key:
- I like A. I like B, too. D doesn’t do much for me, but E and F are real winners.
Congratulations, this was actually the final. You’ve passed. Now give me $35,000.
(Excerpted from the New Yorker, Mar. 22, 2016; click here for full article.)
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Be right wing and you don’t need to think for yourself:
Fox News viewers are a bit more likely to be employed, while MSNBC watchers are more likely to be employed in professional or managerial roles. The education demographic is what drives the differences between Fox News and MSNBC viewers.
As 2016 exit polls demonstrated, education level has become the new political divide in America. President Trump won voters with less than a college education, while Hillary Clinton won among voters with a college degree – and in the two years since the election, their choice for their news source follows this pattern as well.
The biggest differences comes, along party and ideological lines (some viewers may well be “disdainfully” watching the news on the other side of their political beliefs).
Basically, if you watch and devour Fox news whole without the ability to discern the news commentators that (not real journalists) are feeding right wing viewers opinions rather than facts you are more apt to become immune to swallow the ideology whole without analyzing truth or forethought or using any critical thinking skills, facts, evidence that is verifiable versus right wing dogma being regurgitated. In other words, being spoon fed propaganda pablum that soothes ideology without any verifiable truth, facts or scientific evidence. Example: Trump sidesteps facts:
On Jan. 22, asked by a CNBC reporter whether there were “worries about a pandemic,” the president replied: “No, not at all. We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
On Feb. 26, at a White House news conference, commenting on the country’s first reported cases: “We’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.”
On Feb. 27, at a White House meeting: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”
“On March 7, standing next to President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil at Mar-a-Lago, his club in Palm Beach, Fla., when asked if he was concerned that the virus was spreading closer to Washington: “No, I’m not concerned at all. No, I’m not. No, we’ve done a great job.” (At least three members of the Brazilian delegation and one Trump donor at Mar-a-Lago that weekend later tested positive for the virus.)
On March 16, in the White House briefing room, warning that the outbreak would “wash” away this summer: “So it could be right in that period of time where it, I say, wash — it washes through. Other people don’t like that term. But where it washes through.”
Trump opinion versus truth feeds his followers what they want to hear and believe, not based on scientific or medical evidence.
– Quotes by Trump attributed to research reporting by Snopes January 2020 – March 16 2020
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