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CatWoman

(80,224 posts)
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:45 PM Jul 2025

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 2025 OP
I'm starting to think he's not a very honest person superpatriotman Jul 2025 #1
LMAO! Chasstev365 Jul 2025 #30
Sounds more like kraznov taught santos SheltieLover Jul 2025 #2
Ha! Seriously. The man lies about everything - even the most mundane things. Solly Mack Jul 2025 #4
I know, right? SheltieLover Jul 2025 #5
Keep an eye in the weather malaise Jul 2025 #7
I am! Solly Mack Jul 2025 #9
Pathological AZJonnie Jul 2025 #16
It's all good. Nothing the Mango Malefactor says is true CentralMass Jul 2025 #3
However, Kaczynski did not attend MIT.😀 malaise Jul 2025 #6
What, honestly, is the point of lying about something like this? Javaman Jul 2025 #8
Lying about something so stupid and which can be checked in minutes malaise Jul 2025 #10
from the comments section: CatWoman Jul 2025 #11
The lunatic is sick on steroids malaise Jul 2025 #12
That's honestly more damning than the initial lie Prairie Gates Jul 2025 #20
the obvious answer is he THINKS it is true Skittles Jul 2025 #23
He went to Harvard iemanja Jul 2025 #13
His lips were moving at the time? BWdem4life Jul 2025 #14
I'd bet he's told that lie a million times on the golf course Bristlecone Jul 2025 #15
Word! Brother Buzz Jul 2025 #17
We need someone to call him out when he lies! BidenRocks Jul 2025 #18
He called his uncle "Uncle Dr. John Trump"? tanyev Jul 2025 #19
Also know around MIT as.... DFW Jul 2025 #28
Dotard LIED??!? I'm shocked! AZ8theist Jul 2025 #21
Maybe Krasnov was high on some good drugs and talked to his uncle's ghost IronLionZion Jul 2025 #22
Using what I think is his "logic"..... usedtobedemgurl Jul 2025 #24
Trump admires murderers. yardwork Jul 2025 #25
Pretty soon we'll be seeing a NJCher Jul 2025 #26
Narcissists lie all the time to make themselves look good and for attention. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #27
So the G.O.P. felon-in-chief tells another obvious whopper BoRaGard Jul 2025 #29
He should be bragging that his uncle was the last person to see Nikolai Tesla's private papers before they disappeared. TheRickles Jul 2025 #31

Solly Mack

(96,284 posts)
4. Ha! Seriously. The man lies about everything - even the most mundane things.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:55 PM
Jul 2025

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

malaise

(292,216 posts)
6. However, Kaczynski did not attend MIT.😀
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:57 PM
Jul 2025

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

Hope Lawrence calls him out in a few

Javaman

(65,048 posts)
8. What, honestly, is the point of lying about something like this?
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:58 PM
Jul 2025

Is the orange asshole jealous of the unibomber???

malaise

(292,216 posts)
10. Lying about something so stupid and which can be checked in minutes
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 09:04 PM
Jul 2025

He is a pathological liar.

CatWoman

(80,224 posts)
11. from the comments section:
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 09:09 PM
Jul 2025
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

(7,129 posts)
20. That's honestly more damning than the initial lie
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:36 PM
Jul 2025

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

(169,243 posts)
23. the obvious answer is he THINKS it is true
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 11:26 PM
Jul 2025

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

Bristlecone

(10,983 posts)
15. I'd bet he's told that lie a million times on the golf course
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:04 PM
Jul 2025

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

BidenRocks

(2,696 posts)
18. We need someone to call him out when he lies!
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:29 PM
Jul 2025

You Lie!!
Aw Bullshit!
Cut the Crap!

Every person gets one yell for obvious reasons.

IronLionZion

(50,728 posts)
22. Maybe Krasnov was high on some good drugs and talked to his uncle's ghost
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 11:15 PM
Jul 2025

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

usedtobedemgurl

(1,923 posts)
24. Using what I think is his "logic".....
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 05:24 AM
Jul 2025

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

(68,884 posts)
25. Trump admires murderers.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 05:30 AM
Jul 2025

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

NJCher

(42,311 posts)
26. Pretty soon we'll be seeing a
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 05:48 AM
Jul 2025

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

Irish_Dem

(79,367 posts)
27. Narcissists lie all the time to make themselves look good and for attention.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:11 AM
Jul 2025

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

(7,591 posts)
29. So the G.O.P. felon-in-chief tells another obvious whopper
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:29 AM
Jul 2025

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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