US EditionTrump Mentions Uncle’s Academic Background During Pennsylvania Speech, Drawing Public Attention
PENNSYLVANIA, JUL 16 – Trump falsely claimed his uncle taught Ted Kaczynski at MIT during a Pennsylvania summit while promoting AI investments, despite no evidence and Kaczynski never attending MIT.
- President Donald Trump mentioned his late uncle John G. Trump during a Pennsylvania AI investment event on Tuesday and claimed he taught Theodore Kaczynski at MIT.
- This claim is incorrect because Kaczynski did not attend MIT, and Trump’s uncle died in 1985, over a decade before Kaczynski’s capture as the Unabomber in 1996.
- John G. Trump was a respected electrical engineering professor at MIT for decades, but he was not the longest-serving professor, and Kaczynski was never his student.
- Trump referred to his late uncle John Trump as a distinguished professor who served at MIT for several decades, claiming he was the longest-serving faculty member in the institution’s history, even though MIT records indicate that Ted Kaczynski was never enrolled there.
- The mistaken association suggests a conflation of facts that does not reflect Kaczynski’s real academic history and highlights the inaccuracy of Trump’s narrative.
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