Students and Alums From Pomona College Outraged About Trump’s Association to the Number 47
“I definitely feel that the Trump campaign has co-opted it in a way that makes it difficult for all people who love 47 to display it.”
These people apparently think they own the number 47 because Pomona has a ’47 Society.’
The New York Post reports:
Students, alumni at lefty Pomona College demand their ‘beloved’ number 47 back from Donald Trump
Donald Trump really has their number.
Steaming mad students at California’s Pomona College are having a meltdown over one unusual aspect of the president elect’s decisive win in the 2024 election — the number 47.
One alumni of the liberal-leaning school wrote a screed in the student newspaper claiming ownership of the “sacred number,” which they emblazon on signs and stickers as a good luck charm because of its connection to the institution’s history, according to the LA Times.
They complain that Trump has demeaned the digits in their eyes by becoming the 47th president.
“It feels like Trump and his followers have appropriated my favorite number,” wrote Hugo Martin for the outlet.
Trump’s MAGA hats, which are emblazoned on the sides with “45-47” have made Pamona alumni who refer to themselves as the “47 Society” feel uncomfortable donning their once beloved number, Martin said.
“Well, this is the worst thing to happen to our beloved number, possibly ever,” one graduate wrote on the 47 Society’s Facebook page.
Another alumni of the Claremont, Calif. school even scratched his number 47 car sticker off of his rear window and another has reconsidered getting an honorary 47 tattoo since Trump’s win, Martin said.
Graduate Terril Jones told the outlet he worries about wearing his Pomona 47 hat in public, worrying he will be identified as a Trump supporter in public.
“It’s a number dear to Sagehens who have long considered it their own,” Jones told the outlet. “I definitely feel that the Trump campaign has co-opted it in a way that makes it difficult for all people who love 47 to display it.”
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Admission standards have gone so low for colleges these days…
Once again, US higher education shining bright,. Like a bright beacon on a moonless night. Showing. the way for the rest of the world
We salute you.
Good grief. Talk about a get-over-yourself moment.
You can always claim you graduated from Bir Zeit in the Hudson and trashed Hamilton Hall to maintain your leftist credentials.
1. No one knows who you are.
2. 47th POTUS is bigger than any alumni society. Get over yourselves.
You can always disband if you don’t like it. No one is going to care about you either way.
“One alumni of the liberal-leaning school wrote a screed in the student newspaper claiming ownership of the “sacred number,””
One alumni? LOL
Zoe, where did you go to school? Pomona? It’s one alumna – assuming you are a female and claim to be a female.
Zoe Hussain’s sex is irrelevant. All that matters is the sex of the two alumni quoted in her article, and there is no indication of that. They may each be an alumnus, an alumna, or one of each.
Alumni: plural
Alumnus: singular male
Alumna: singular female
“They complain that Trump has demeaned the digits in their eyes by becoming the 47th president.”
I had an uncle who had to stop referring to himself as a gay blade.
Suck it up.
I know how your uncle feels, I’m so old. I remember when the phrase “happy and gay” was redundant.
“Gay” in the sense of “sexually loose” has been part of the English language since at least the 1880s. Until the 1930s it included but wasn’t limited to homosexuality; promiscuous heterosexuals were also gay. In the 1930s its meaning narrowed to just homosexual.
TOUGH. SHIT.
Deal.
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