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Remember when Vice President JD Vance tried to say that he’s the coolest VP in U.S. history? People pointed out that if you’re truly cool, you don’t have to tell people that — they just come to that conclusion on their own. And now, people are saying the same thing about President Donald Trump after he bragged about how “smart” he is at a Kentucky rally.
During a rant about how terrible Rep. Thomas Massie is, Trump said he knows “a lot of stupid people who went to a good college,” yet simultaneously tried to say that the fact that he went to a good college is proof that he’s intelligent. Sure, makes sense.
Trump tried to say Massie is ‘the worst.’
Just called Thomas Massie.
— Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@FmrRepMTG) March 12, 2026
Phone rings. Thomas answers.
Me: hey what are you doing?
Massie: I’m at Kroger. Call you back in 10.
lol, he’s knows the grocery prices.
Do you think Trump has been to a grocery store to do his own grocery shopping in the past 30 years?
Nope.
Massie is a Republican, but he has gone against Trump before. Most recently, Massie made it clear that he opposes Trump’s war against Iran, and argued that Trump “can’t even give us a straight answer” as to why he started the war in the first place, per The Daily Beast.
Of course, we all know that Trump doesn’t exactly take it well when someone challenges him or calls him out, so Massie is also the subject of one of Trump’s Truth Social rants. (On his social media platform, Trump asserted that Massie “will go down as the WORST Republican Congressman in the long and fabled history of the United States Congress.”)
What he said about Massie at the recent rally wasn’t any kinder than that. “He’s the worst,” Trump complained at the event, per The Hill. “He only votes no. He just votes no. It doesn’t matter. I could give him the best things in the history of a Republican voter, and he’d vote no. There is something wrong with him.”
He admitted that Massie has one good quality — but only one.
HAHAHAHAHA!
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 12, 2026
This is the guy they are running against Thomas Massie in Kentucky, who Trump just endorsed.
I can't stop laughing for some reason. @RepThomasMassie pic.twitter.com/BcAisy8Aty
And by the sounds of it, Trump doesn’t actually think it’s a good quality anyway. “Massie’s a complete and total disaster as a congressman, and frankly, as a human being,” Trump said. Harsh. He then added, “You know, he’s got one thing going. He went to a good college.”
Trump went on to suggest that this isn’t necessarily a good quality, unless, of course, we’re talking about him. Then it is a good thing, apparently. “I know a lot of stupid people who went to a good college,” Trump said, implying that Massie’s prestigious alma mater doesn’t actually mean anything. But somehow, Trump made this rant about himself, and explained that he is intelligent…because he went to a good college. Hmm.
Trump explained that he went to the Wharton School.
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
The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is a prestigious business school. Trump said, “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.”
People found a lot of things wrong with this statement. For one, “much better blood”??? And, of course, there’s also the fact that many people do not think Trump is all that smart. Plus, didn’t he just say that “stupid people” can go to good colleges too? Reacting to a clip of Trump’s claim on X, one critic wrote, “People who are really, really smart do not broadcast their smartness to the world.”
Another critic wrote, “Can anyone even picture him reading a book and studying and getting good grades? He’s been cheating his whole life… A grifter.” Someone else simply said, “If you say so grandpa…”
The Wharton School really is competitive but…
Trump claims to have gotten a degree from Wharton, yet, when asked, he cannot explain what a tariff is or how it works. Like everything in his life, his degree from Wharton was not earned but bought by parents who unleashed a menace on the U.S. and the world.
— BythePeople (@BythePeople18) October 27, 2024
People aren’t convinced he’s telling the whole story. Yes, he really did go to the University of Pennsylvania, and yes, the school is hard to get into (though “hardest college of all to get into” is certainly an exaggeration). But people have speculated that Trump got into the school due to his nepo baby privileges. In 2019, the Washington Post reported that Trump’s brother, Fred Trump Jr., contacted his friend James Nolan, who worked in the university’s admissions office. How convenient.
At the time, Trump was studying at Fordham University and wanted to transfer to UPenn. Nolan agreed to interview Trump, and Trump’s dad, Fred Trump Sr., accompanied him. When speaking to the publication, Nolan explained that the university is extremely competitive today, but it wasn’t as difficult to get into back when Trump attended. According to him, more than 50% of applicants were accepted at the time, and transfer students like Trump had even higher chances.
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