Will Donald Trump diminish Wharton's Prestige/Reputation?
Will Donald Trump change how people view Wharton, diminishing its prestige/reputation over time? After all, he's Wharton's most famous and prominent graduate by far to date.
No.
Michael Milken, Raj rajaratnam, all solid Wharton grads. Trump, billionaire President of the United States, embarrassment for hurting snowflakes feelings. Makes sense.
Donald Trump should be in jail for 100000 years for hate speech! But when some dumb bitch from CNN posts a picture of her beheading him, that is fine!
In whose perspective? Employers could care less-they're still going to recruit from wharton, keep in mind all the alumni out there... For students? probably many (super leftist) students will be turned off
wtf
In the not-too-distant future, ELON MUSK, not Trump, will be thought of as the most famous and prominent graduate of Wharton. I guaran-fucking-tee it!
What chapter and verse of Revelation is that from?
Your mom!
Will Steve Bannon change how people view HBS?
I don't think people view Steve Bannon as dumb though. Most people view him as smart and well-read, but evil. WRT to George W. Bush at HBS, he was viewed far more inarticulate and incompetent administratively than "stupid," his Yale grades nonwithstanding.
Trump is almost unanimously perceived to be a dumbass.
Who views Trump as dumb? Is it the people that he crushed in the election and believe that there are 57 different genders, and that if you come to the country without legal papers, that it is not "illegal" it is "undocumented"...? "Unanimously" as in your LGBTQIAPF sector in green peace?
You are saying "most people" about all of these figures you talk about, but in reality most of the United States doesn't even vote, and most of them don't care about your silly prestige or view Steve Bannon or any of these other people as "evil but smart" or as ANYTHING since they don't even know who they are!
Given that Duke wasn't really harmed by Nixon, who is arguably the worst president in history and that the Watergate scandal was far worse than anything any other president has done in recent history, including Trump, Wharton is fine. Hell, the Unabomber and Jeffrey Skilling went to Harvard and Harvard is probably the most prestigious college in the world.
The issue is that all those men were and are widely perceived to be "smart but evil." Nixon was a brilliant student and lawyer, receiving extremely high marks at both in undergrad and at Duke Law. He ultimately used his intelligence for nefarious purposes, but was a bright man. The Unabomber was a math prodigy since his youth, and was perceived as one both at Harvard and UMich (for his PhD), and as a professor at UC Berkeley. His manifesto clearly shows that while he's deranged, psychotic, and murderous, he has brains. Skilling was corrupt and amoral, but again, a clearly bright person. As I mentioned earlier, Steve Bannon is also a well-read and intelligent individual, despite being perceived as amoral. As a result, the institutions from which they received their degrees don't have their prestige diminished due to perceptions of low academic quality/standards.
The issue with Trump is that he's viewed as extremely dumb in addition to being amoral and corrupt. To some, it calls into question Wharton's standards that an unintelligent person like Trump would be admitted. Say what you will about George W. Bush's C-average at Yale undergrad and connections through his daddy, he had a successful business career and despite being inarticulate, wasn't viewed as "stupid," especially wrt policy, certainly not nearly to the same degree as Trump.
Who perceives Bannon as amoral? Can you tell me anything he has specifically done that is wrong and immoral? Let me know... I don't think most people even know who he is...
EDIT: someone try to refute this argument or at least attempt to answer the question? Why is it you always just throw MS and keep your air of "moral superiority"... while doing exactly what I predict (throwing MS and insults)??
Is the naval academy a shit school because Jimmy Carter went there? No.
Even if Trump personally gave Putin a hand job to 'hack the election' he would still be noteworthy for Wharton. He managed to become a billionaire, beat a bunch of GOP darlings for the nomination, defeat the person hand selected by the DNC to 'be the next president' and proved every pollster wrong along the way. Politics aside, you have to admit he pulled off quite the maneuver to get to where he is now.
Carter was viewed as an incompetent president, but not inherently stupid. He's redeemed himself in the eyes of many through his stellar post-presidency work too.
I agree that tactically Trump's campaign was impressive, but that doesn't shake off the widespread perception that the man isn't that bright.
What's dumb and borderline retarded is making a thread asking a question and then repeating "hur dur he's dumb" whenever someone disagrees.
Simply make a thread bashing trump. At least it would be intellectually honest.
If by widespread you mean college students, liberals and the media. However, that would be a fairly narrow spread.
Also, Carter is still known as an idiot and his presidency has never been redeemed.
Funniest conv in the history
did Ted Kaczynski diminish Harvard's prestige/reputation?
if you think the answer is no, the Trump most definitely does not.
To answer the OP, no he will not. Remember there's no such thing as bad publicity... To quote Oscar Wilde (fellow ENFP), "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
But to be fair, Amy Gutmann already openly denounced Trump (when his immigration order came out). I highly doubt Trump would be invited to speak at any events in the future on Penn campus
Yo OP, sure Trump's views are often unintellectual, but never unashamedly pro-american.
Btw, he's POTUS. So, if anything he may even enhance Wharton's already sky high rep.
ok his policies are at times weird, but I challenge any of us (me included) to have the energy, stamina, sheer chutzpah and balls to stand, at age fucking 70, in front of the world and holler fuck all ya'll - america is number 1.
Trump at 70 makes 2pac in his prime look like a sissy
Btw, Did i mention he's the POTUS.
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