
Donald Trump recently told a crowd that he has “much better blood” because his uncle taught at MIT.
He also called himself “real smart” because he attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, despite having said moments earlier that he knows “a lot of stupid people that went to a good college.”
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On social media, some pointed out that Trump also lied about his uncle being MIT’s longest-serving professor, and others simply expressed horror that the president of the United States is exhibiting this behavior and that the country has accepted it as normal. Others mocked him for bragging about being smart, saying that smart people don’t actually talk about their intelligence.
Trump: I know a lot of stupid people that went to a good college. My uncle was the longest serving professor at MIT. That means I have much better blood. But I went to the hardest college of all to get into, the Wharton school of finance, that means I'm real smart. pic.twitter.com/kYIWksn5Up
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 11, 2026
There’s also the fact that Trump went to Wharton as an undergraduate, not for business school, and that he transferred there from Fordham University, reportedly with the help of a family connection.
Every morning I wake up, click on social media, and see clips showing that the President of the United States is vain, riddled with envy, self-obsessed, dumb and by the look of it suffering from incipient senility. And yet we take it as normal https://t.co/gKj6sqLu6t
— Nick Cohen (@NickCohen4) March 12, 2026
His uncle was an MIT professor but he was NOT the longest server professor. This is also creepy and racist as he does not have “better blood,” because one of his relatives was smart. https://t.co/GfM0eI04Ox
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) March 12, 2026
How many really smart people go around telling everyone they are really smart? https://t.co/XaTNL1AuTv
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) March 11, 2026
I know only one stupid person that went to a good college. https://t.co/R5i5MaZfEX
— Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) (@AwesomeNewsom) March 11, 2026
@POTUS no you're not.
— Caring Guy
Hey convicted felon, let’s clear up the mythology.
You love telling this story about “great blood,” MIT, and how Wharton proves you’re a genius. The facts don’t back up most of it.
Your uncle, John G. Trump, really was a respected scientist at MIT. Nobody… https://t.co/5lseKLiKyw
Source: LGBTQ Nation