“I love the poorly educated,” then-candidate Donald Trump declared back in 2016 while flanked by his two eldest sons. In response, Eric Trump turned toward his father and beamed. He felt seen.
But not everyone who craves Trump’s approval can convincingly rebrand themselves as “poorly-educated.” Many of the GOP politicians eager to serve as vice president hold degrees from elite universities, creating a sad spectacle as they try to distance themselves from their Ivy League pasts, dragging down their dreams of a bright future.
Trump himself graduated from an Ivy League school, and happily boasts about his 1968 B.S. degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The UPenn student newspaper even calculated that Trump trumpeted his Wharton affiliation 93 times between May 16, 2015 and January 17, 2018.
