Donald Trump made a Thanksgiving Day phone call to members of the United States military Thursday but wound up attempting to score political points and express personal frustrations. As is presidential tradition, Trump took time out of his Thanksgiving celebrations, to speak with troops stationed around the world.

At one point Trump spoke with a service member about his achievements, and then Trump compared the achievement with his attending the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance.

Trump often brags about his time at Wharton, which he sees as a sign of his brilliance and big brain.

However, there’s more to the story. Trump did graduate from the Wharton School of business at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League college. But Trump did not get an MBA from Wharton; he has a much less prestigious undergraduate degree. He was a transfer student who arrived at Wharton after two years at Fordham University, which U.S. News & World Report currently ranks 66th among national universities. (Besides, simply going to an Ivy League school doesn’t prove you’re a genius.)

For years, numerous media reports said Trump graduated first in his class from Wharton, but that’s wrong. The 1968 commencement program does not list him as graduating with any sort of honors. In fact, the Boston Globe reported that he barely made an impression at all: “His former classmates said he seemed a student who spoke up a lot but rarely shined in class, who barely participated in campus activities, shunned fraternity parties.”

During the call, Trump also mentioned he might visit the troops overseas.

“I’ll see you back when you are in the United States,” Trump told the military members, “or maybe I’ll even see you over there, you never know what’s going to happen.”

Trump, who has declined to visit combat troops stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan as president, has faced increased criticism in recent weeks for his treatment of the military.

While in France, he skipped a service marking the end of World War I after the rainy forecast meant he couldn’t take a helicopter to the cemetery. Back in Washington, he didn’t pay respects to the fallen at Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day.

“I should have done that,” Trump told Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace in an interview, a rare admission of error by the president.

The president has repeatedly declared his love for the US Armed Forces and touted his support for military pay raises and securing funding for new equipment at the Pentagon.

“Nobody has done more for the military than I have,” Trump said Thursday.

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 22, 2018