Thread by @paulwaldman1

1. I went to grad school at Penn so I have only good things to say about the school, but it's always struck me as bizarre that Trump presents his admission there as though it was an honor given to perhaps one genius student in a generation.

2. "The hardest school to get into, the best school in the world," he calls it. It's a fine school, but not quite that.

3. He has lied about it forever, claiming he was 1st in his class when he was actually a middling student. Here's an interesting article showing just what you'd expect:

1. Family connections got him in
2. At the time it wasn't that hard to get in anyway

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…