Trump again

Today, June 14, 2026, Donald J. Trump celebrates his 80th birthday.  Welcome to the club.

From September of 1966 until May of 1967, I was in my senior year as a student at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

I think my favorite course that senior year was an introductory one in real estate.  I learned its three rules:  location, location, and location.  

Our professor had us study an actual neighborhood in West Philadelphia, not far from the campus.  Each student was given an address of a house in the neighborhood and had to do various research related to the house.  

One was to go to Philadelphia City Hall (intersection of Broad and Market Streets) and look up the last three times the house had been sold (using old fashioned microfilm) to certify that each owner had signed on the subsequent sales document.  This is what title insurance is about.

Some time during that senior year, a colleague mentioned that one of our fellow students was Donald Trump, the son of a wealthy New York City real estate developer.  He was a junior transfer from Fordham University in New York City.  We never met.  

Trump was at Penn because of the Wharton School's real estate program.  He graduated 12 months after I did in May of 1968.

In November 2016, Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States of America.

In November 2024, Donald Trump was elected the 47th President of the United States of America.  He is scheduled to serve until January 20, 2029 when he will be 82 years of age.