I'd say there's a slight difference in the societal pressure (and cost) re: Trump university vs. accredited colleges and universities.
And that's not defending the absolute failure that was Trump U, but no one's told "hey you need to go to trump university to make anything out of yourself" whereas guidance/career counselors are swearing to that senior in high school that he better go to college next year or he'll end up an unemployed townie his whole life.
You'd say there's a "slight difference".
Trump and Trump U, make no mistake, are INDEFENSIBLE. A disgusting, immoral scam. A college degree and it's associated "societal pressure" exist, in part, because a degree statistically helps you earn more while working less in your lifetime.
Conversely, spending time and your money on Trump U and other types of gross, predatory scams result in 99.999% of "students" being fucked out of their money by a freaking piece of excrement. Trump knew it was a scam and a grift, because he is a grifter. Anyone who thinks otherwise is potentially more money in his pocket.
Guidance counselors "swearing to that senior in high school that he better go to college next year or he'll end up an unemployed townie his whole life", first of all is an exaggeration (you know that), but again they would not be doing their job if they did not encourage goal of higher education.
And take a look at Trump U advertisements and similar scams if you don't think they make worse, ridiculously more unfounded, asinine, grandiose claims.
"No one's told 'hey you need to go to trump university to make anything out of yourself'".....yeah, except for tons of uneducated people who sadly trusted the greasy freak in the McDonald's commercial and the Apprentice.
Yes, the price is different, and a legitimate degree in this country could take years to pay off (if you didn't pull your red-blooded American bootstraps up and get a scholarship)....but that's better than being robbed of thousands of dollars for a bag of magic rat turds by the crackhead behind 7-11. So we do agree, Trump U was an absolute failure. It was a failure at decency and honesty and was a middle finger cash-grab.