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CatWoman

(80,051 posts)
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 09:45 PM Jul 15

Trump Claims His Uncle Taught the Unabomber at MIT - But There's One Small Problem

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 family’s 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, it’s 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. That’s a smart man. Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There’s 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 he’d go around correcting everybody.”

But it didn’t work out too well for him. Didn’t work out too well. But it’s interesting in life.



https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-claims-his-uncle-taught-the-unabomber-at-mit-but-theres-one-small-problem/
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Trump Claims His Uncle Taught the Unabomber at MIT - But There's One Small Problem (Original Post) CatWoman Jul 15 OP
I'm starting to think he's not a very honest person superpatriotman Jul 15 #1
LMAO! Chasstev365 Wednesday #30
Sounds more like kraznov taught santos SheltieLover Jul 15 #2
Ha! Seriously. The man lies about everything - even the most mundane things. Solly Mack Jul 15 #4
I know, right? SheltieLover Jul 15 #5
Keep an eye in the weather malaise Jul 15 #7
I am! Solly Mack Jul 15 #9
Pathological AZJonnie Jul 15 #16
It's all good. Nothing the Mango Malefactor says is true CentralMass Jul 15 #3
However, Kaczynski did not attend MIT.😀 malaise Jul 15 #6
What, honestly, is the point of lying about something like this? Javaman Jul 15 #8
Lying about something so stupid and which can be checked in minutes malaise Jul 15 #10
from the comments section: CatWoman Jul 15 #11
The lunatic is sick on steroids malaise Jul 15 #12
That's honestly more damning than the initial lie Prairie Gates Jul 15 #20
the obvious answer is he THINKS it is true Skittles Wednesday #23
He went to Harvard iemanja Jul 15 #13
His lips were moving at the time? BWdem4life Jul 15 #14
I'd bet he's told that lie a million times on the golf course Bristlecone Jul 15 #15
Word! Brother Buzz Jul 15 #17
We need someone to call him out when he lies! BidenRocks Jul 15 #18
He called his uncle "Uncle Dr. John Trump"? tanyev Jul 15 #19
Also know around MIT as.... DFW Wednesday #28
Dotard LIED??!? I'm shocked! AZ8theist Wednesday #21
Maybe Krasnov was high on some good drugs and talked to his uncle's ghost IronLionZion Wednesday #22
Using what I think is his "logic"..... usedtobedemgurl Wednesday #24
Trump admires murderers. yardwork Wednesday #25
Pretty soon we'll be seeing a NJCher Wednesday #26
Narcissists lie all the time to make themselves look good and for attention. Irish_Dem Wednesday #27
So the G.O.P. felon-in-chief tells another obvious whopper BoRaGard Wednesday #29
He should be bragging that his uncle was the last person to see Nikolai Tesla's private papers before they disappeared. TheRickles Wednesday #31

Solly Mack

(95,298 posts)
4. Ha! Seriously. The man lies about everything - even the most mundane things.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 09:55 PM
Jul 15

He could have a burger for lunch but then would tell someone he ate chicken - just cause.

malaise

(286,836 posts)
6. However, Kaczynski did not attend MIT.😀
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 09:57 PM
Jul 15

Getting up off the floor😂😂
The lying liar lied. What a shock.

Hope Lawrence calls him out in a few

Javaman

(64,276 posts)
8. What, honestly, is the point of lying about something like this?
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 09:58 PM
Jul 15

Is the orange asshole jealous of the unibomber???

malaise

(286,836 posts)
10. Lying about something so stupid and which can be checked in minutes
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:04 PM
Jul 15

He is a pathological liar.

CatWoman

(80,051 posts)
11. from the comments section:
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:09 PM
Jul 15
Trump’s uncle died in 1985.

The Unabomber wasn’t 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.

Prairie Gates

(5,706 posts)
20. That's honestly more damning than the initial lie
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 11:36 PM
Jul 15

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

(166,124 posts)
23. the obvious answer is he THINKS it is true
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:26 AM
Wednesday

that scrambled "brain" of his churned it out......

Bristlecone

(10,811 posts)
15. I'd bet he's told that lie a million times on the golf course
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 11:04 PM
Jul 15

So much so, he forgot he made it up, and actually believes it. Like so many of his lies.

BidenRocks

(1,858 posts)
18. We need someone to call him out when he lies!
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 11:29 PM
Jul 15

You Lie!!
Aw Bullshit!
Cut the Crap!

Every person gets one yell for obvious reasons.

IronLionZion

(49,481 posts)
22. Maybe Krasnov was high on some good drugs and talked to his uncle's ghost
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:15 AM
Wednesday

about a student at a completely different university, Harvard not MIT.

usedtobedemgurl

(1,773 posts)
24. Using what I think is his "logic".....
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:24 AM
Wednesday

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

(67,260 posts)
25. Trump admires murderers.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:30 AM
Wednesday

He admires the fictional Hannibal Lecter. He admires the Unabomer. He admired Jeffrey Epstein.

NJCher

(40,735 posts)
26. Pretty soon we'll be seeing a
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:48 AM
Wednesday

Gold-framed portrait of John Wayne Gacy in the Oval Office.

Irish_Dem

(72,522 posts)
27. Narcissists lie all the time to make themselves look good and for attention.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 07:11 AM
Wednesday

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

(6,422 posts)
29. So the G.O.P. felon-in-chief tells another obvious whopper
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 07:29 AM
Wednesday

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.

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