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Trump rails at Michael Wolff's Claim about Harvard [1]

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Date: 2025-06-03

Michael Wolff has written several books about Donald Trump. The last one came out in February, called: All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America. I wrote two diaries about Trump really going nuts on Truth Social about the book:

Trump is really upset about a new book and

Trump is even more upset about Wolff's new book

Yesterday, Trump Trump decided to get angry about Wolff's claim that he was attacking Harvard because Wolff claimed on The Daily Beast podcast last week that Trump applied to enter Harvard, but was refused.

What is the reality of Trump's schooling? Well, start with this post from George Conway:

Then this one from Laurence Tribe:

Then finally, Trump last night. How Trump found out about the Daily Beast podcast is a salient question. He certainly wouldn't spend the time on it personally. It's like MAGA minions troll all sources of negative news for him. But there are so many sources, do they have an organized list of who watches what?

"Michael Wolff, a Third Rate Reporter, who is laughed at even by the scoundrels of the Fake News..."

That "Third Rate Reporter" holds down three reporting jobs, and has authored seven books. There have been controversies about some of the things he's written and said, but he's still won writing awards.

"... recently stated that the only reason I'm 'beating up' on Harvard, is that I applied there, but didn't get in."

Probably was a logical assumption. Trump has already lied about so many things and paid someone else to take his SAT test just to get into Wharton.

"That story is totally FALSE, I never applied to Harvard."

If you didn't apply, it was because your SAT score, from a test you didn't take, was still not good enough.

"I graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania."

Did he really graduate? And what happened to the investigation in 2020 into how he got into Wharton?

"He is upset because his book about me was a total 'BOMB,' because nobody wanted it..."

Wolff's books have gone to No. 1 on best seller lists, and "All or Nothing" was no different.

"... because his 'reporting' and reputation is so bad!"

There may be a new controversy now that Trump has brought on himself. Harvard can answer the question, but usually student records, even of the admission process, are confidential. Trump would have to tell Harvard he wants the truth out, and you know that will never happen, because if he never applied, that would be still another different story.

What Wolff said in The Daily Beast podcast was that Trump "didn't get into Harvard," and that as a result, has held this grudge all these years and this is what is behind his attacks against Harvard.

"He needs an enemy. That's what makes the show great. The Trump Show. He picks fantastic enemies, actually. And Harvard, for all it represents, fits right into the Trump show," Wolff said on the podcast. "Going after Harvard has proved to be an incredibly reliable headline. So he's on the money. So he's done what he set out to do. Dominate headlines."

The Daily Beast article about all this recounts how Trump's late sister told Trump's niece, Mary Trump, how she drove Donald all around New York, trying to get him into college, implying that he was rejected by others

Mary said that Donald attended Fordham for a short time "and then got into the University of Pennsylvania because he had somebody take his exams."

Trump has claimed that Wharton was hard to get into and that he graduated at the top of his class. A dubious statement at best with all his business failures and lack of any knowledge of accounting. He had to have the term "gaap" explained to him in a deposition, which means "generally accepted accounting principles."

Donald has two reasons to personally hate Harvard. Both Barack and Michelle Obama went to Harvard Law School and graduated with honors.

​​​​​Trump's own failures Mary Trump has documented, and she's a much more reliable witness than Donald. She's a psychologist and her book about Donald is called: "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man." Published in July of 2020, not enough people read it to turn the tide against Donald.

Did Donald get rejected by Harvard? Now that Trump has brought it up, it will be in the news for a while. Should be fun to see him squirm when the next reporter with guts asks him.

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