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How long did he go to the wharton school of buisness?

I have listed the portrait image for deletion on WP:IFD because of its terms of use. Dori | Talk 13:27, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)

Somebody keeps putting up information that Trump's ancestors are from Baden-Baden Germany. This is from a German website "People from Baden Baden" (view this article's history, in particular http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Donald_Trump&oldid=3367622) that claims that Trump's grandfather (with the surname of Trumpf) came from Baden-Baden, and that Fred Trumpf changed the name to "Trump" to avoid anti-German sentiment. But page 66 of "Art of the Deal", written by Donald Trump, definitively says that his grandfather came from Sweden. Also, the Lehigh University information is also incorrect. (Wikipedia occasionally has people who will deliberately put in bogus information as a joke to see if people are gullible enough to swallow it).

I was the one who added the Lehigh connection, and it certainly wasn't a joke. I was relying on this profile from Selling Power magazine. If Trump describes his educational background in The Art of the Deal, I'd agree that it's a better source. (On some subjects I'd leave open the possibility that Trump was lying in his book, but he probably wouldn't lie about that.) Does the book discuss his academic career? JamesMLane 22:18, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Art of the Deal does discuss his undergraduate career, on page 77 of the paperback edition. Lehigh University is never mentioned nor is it in the index. An excerpt (from pages 76-78):

After I graduated from the New York Military Academy in 1964 I flirted briefly with the idea of attending film school...But in the end I decided real estate was a much better business. I began by attending Fordham University...but after two years, I decided that as long as I had to be in college, I might as well test myself against the best. I applied to the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and I got in...I was also very glad to get finished. I immediately moved back home and went to work full-time with my father.

Buy the book -- it's only $6 paperback (about the cost of a movie), and a good read. You'll find that he wasn't exactly born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and that following in the "family business" wasn't easy, especially for his older brother who became an airline pilot. It's all in the book.

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 :I was the one who added the Lehigh connection, and it certainly wasn't a joke.  I was relying on [http://www.sellingpower.com/article/display.asp?aid=SP9574056&pageTitle=DonaldXXZZTrumpXXZZ(V13N6P17) this profile] from ''Selling Power'' magazine.  If Trump describes his educational background in ''The Art of the Deal'', I'd agree that it's a better source.  (On some subjects I'd leave open the possibility that Trump was lying in his book, but he probably wouldn't lie about that.)  Does the book discuss his academic career? [[User:JamesMLane|JamesMLane]] 22:18, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
+::<i>Art of the Deal</i> does discuss his undergraduate career, on page 77 of the paperback edition.  Lehigh University is never mentioned nor is it in the index. An excerpt (from pages 76-78):
+:::<blockquote><table border=1 cellspacing=0><tr><td><i>After I graduated from the New York Military Academy in 1964 I flirted briefly with the idea of attending film school...But in the end I decided real estate was a much better business.  I began by attending Fordham University...but after two years, I decided that as long as I had to be in college, I might as well test myself against the best. I applied to the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and I got in...I was also very glad to get finished. I immediately moved back home and went to work full-time with my father.</i></blockquote></td></tr></table>
+::Buy the book -- it's only $6 paperback (about the cost of a movie), and a good read.  You'll find that he wasn't exactly born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and that following in the "family business" wasn't easy, especially for his older brother who became an airline pilot.  It's all in the book.
+::: -- Anonymous