Overview

• On July 15 at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, President Trump asserted that his uncle, Dr. John G. Trump, had taught Ted Kaczynski at MIT to highlight his family’s intellectual pedigree
• An MIT spokesperson told Reuters there is no enrollment record or any evidence that Kaczynski ever studied at MIT under Dr. Trump’s tenure from 1936 to 1973
• Academic records show Kaczynski earned a mathematics bachelor’s degree from Harvard in 1962 and both a master’s and PhD from the University of Michigan by 1967
• Dr. John G. Trump was a longtime MIT professor and physicist credited with co-inventing a million-volt X-ray generator and advancing cancer radiotherapy and radar technology during World War II
• Multiple fact-checks and news outlets have highlighted the absence of any link between the Unabomber and MIT, underscoring the role of verification in political discourse