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President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that his uncle taught Ted Kaczynski at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before Kaczynski became the Unabomber. However, Kaczynski did not attend MIT.
Trump attended the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh, where attendees praised his leadership. During his remarks, Trump took a detour to talk about artificial intelligence and his late uncle, John G. Trump, who designed generators and was a professor at MIT. The president has occasionally invoked his uncle to try to burnish his familys intellectual bona fides, and did so again on Tuesday:
I have to brag just for a second because when I first heard about AI, you know, its not my thing, although my uncle was at MIT. One of the great professors, 51 years, whatever, longest-serving professor in the history of MIT. Three degrees in nuclear, chemical, and math. Thats a smart man. Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? Theres very little difference between a madman and a genius.
But Kaczynski, I said, What kind of a student was he, Uncle John, Dr. John Trump? He said, What kind of a student? And he said, Seriously good. He said hed go around correcting everybody.
But it didnt work out too well for him. Didnt work out too well. But its interesting in life.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-claims-his-uncle-taught-the-unabomber-at-mit-but-theres-one-small-problem/

superpatriotman
(6,739 posts)Better keep my eye on him.
Chasstev365
(6,121 posts)SheltieLover
(73,208 posts)
Solly Mack
(95,551 posts)He could have a burger for lunch but then would tell someone he ate chicken - just cause.
SheltieLover
(73,208 posts)Sicko.
malaise
(288,469 posts)
AZJonnie
(1,256 posts)
CentralMass
(16,440 posts)malaise
(288,469 posts)Getting up off the floor😂😂
The lying liar lied. What a shock.
Hope Lawrence calls him out in a few
Javaman
(64,427 posts)Is the orange asshole jealous of the unibomber???
malaise
(288,469 posts)He is a pathological liar.
CatWoman
(80,100 posts)The Unabomber wasnt identified and arrested until 1996.
But according to Cadet Bone Spurs, he had conversations with his uncle about The Unabomber over a decade before he was arrested.
JFC.
malaise
(288,469 posts)😂😂😤
Prairie Gates
(6,059 posts)The most generous interpretation is that he's mixing up two conversations about two different students, but even if that's true, it sure does look like extreme senility.
Skittles
(166,987 posts)that scrambled "brain" of his churned it out......
iemanja
(56,606 posts)and was subject to an abusive study by a professor.
BWdem4life
(2,675 posts)Bristlecone
(10,850 posts)So much so, he forgot he made it up, and actually believes it. Like so many of his lies.
Brother Buzz
(39,049 posts)
BidenRocks
(2,092 posts)You Lie!!
Aw Bullshit!
Cut the Crap!
Every person gets one yell for obvious reasons.
tanyev
(47,654 posts)
DFW
(58,818 posts)Dr. John, the Night Trumper
AZ8theist
(6,878 posts)IronLionZion
(49,765 posts)about a student at a completely different university, Harvard not MIT.
usedtobedemgurl
(1,808 posts)If he is smart because his Uncle taught at MIT, then his Uncle taught the Unabomber because he taught college. Makes perfect sense!!!!
He seems to admire Ted. Talking up Ted was "seriously good" and basically calling him a genius - little difference between a madman and a genius. BTW, you know how everything with him is a confession? He calls himself a genius, but it is a fine line between madman and genius? Me thinks he is confessing HR is on the former side of that equation.
yardwork
(67,818 posts)He admires the fictional Hannibal Lecter. He admires the Unabomer. He admired Jeffrey Epstein.
NJCher
(41,232 posts)Gold-framed portrait of John Wayne Gacy in the Oval Office.
Irish_Dem
(73,711 posts)They just make it all up to stroke their ego.
An insatiable need for praise and attention.
And to keep the focus on themselves.
BoRaGard
(7,245 posts)and the G.O.P. is all tail wagging, head-nodding, and brown nosing. Spineless. Immoral. Unfit for duty. What a disgrace the G.O.P. is to embrace all these VIOLATIONS of the Ten Commandments. Freaking evil.
TheRickles
(2,931 posts)Not a whopper - it's actually true: https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2025/05/donald-trumps-uncle-reviewed-teslas-death-ray-secrets-and-found-mysterious-royal-letters/