2024 Election

Trump Announces That Daughter Tiffany Graduated First in Her Class, However, There’s One HUGE Problem

He just can't stop saying it.

Trump rallies are a constant source of hilarious material for me, and I really am eternally grateful for the endless opportunities I’ve been given to make fun of him for it.

But often, the source material is dubious instead of funny, and it’s these articles I like writing the best. When I am gifted the right set of circumstances to write something proving that Donald Trump is a liar — rather than just an idiot, as usual — it makes me feel like I’m in league with the big publications like Snopes or the Washington Post, with their Trump lie tracker.

The latest one comes of course from his latest rally. After all, what would a Trump rally be without lies? It only stands to reason that the most recent one would have the most recent lie. And though this one sounds kind of familiar, it’s actually got a new twist on it.

You’ve all heard Trump tell variations on the lie that he personally graduated from college “first in his class.” In fact, we’ve gone into it at length on this site many times.

That one was a relatively easy lie to debunk, since records actually exist, and they prove that no such thing ever happened. Other people have memories, Donald. They all say you’re full of crap.

But when he lied to the crowd in Greenville, North Carolina yesterday, he told them that his daughter Tiffany did the same thing.

Tiffany, the daughter he had with the first woman he publicly cheated on his wife with, graduated from Georgetown Law School in Washington, DC four years ago. Trump, who was president at the time, tweeted his congratulations with a little joke about how he’s, you know, a criminal: “Just what I need is a lawyer in the family.”

But despite his awful attempt at humor, graduating from Georgetown is nothing to sneeze at. It’s a prestigious school. So if you were to graduate “Number One” in your class from such a school, that would be quite an achievement. And that’s exactly what Trump said happened:

“She was a great student, and she went to a fantastic law school, graduated No. 1 in her class,” he told the Tar Heel State faithful.

But this lie is even easier to debunk than the one he told about himself, because according to Georgetown’s own website, ranking students is totally something they don’t even do there.

Seriously. From the site:

The Georgetown University Law Center does not rank its students. The faculty has, however, authorized three separate academic honors for students with distinguished records. Those honors are: Dean’s List, Diplomas with Honors, and Order of the Coif.

Well, surely she got some of those Honors distinctions, right? Nope. She’s nowhere on that list either.

Trump is back to talking about Tiffany because it suits him politically right now. She’s pregnant, and although he blew her big announcement by breaking the news himself at a completely unrelated event, talk about family tends to “humanize” political candidates.

He has mentioned each of his other children, including his youngest, far more frequently than he’s ever talked about Tiffany on the campaign trail or off. Part of it feels like that’s the product of Tiffany being the only one of his kids to change their last name — she took her husband’s last name, Boulos, unlike her sister Ivanka when she married Jared Kushner.

But one has to wonder if that has anything to do with that joke he made after she graduated from Georgetown — she is the only lawyer in the family.

And that’s JUST what Trump needs: A lawyer. If he keeps lying about everything, that is.

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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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