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PRESIDENT TRUMP can’t be ill-mannered — he went to an Ivy League school.

That was the argument Trump made on Wednesday as he defended his own character.

Trump blamed the media and touted his own intellect in response to criticism from a pair of senators from his own party accusing him of having “a flagrant disregard for truth and decency.”

“I think the press makes me more uncivil than I am,” Trump said.

“I went to an Ivy League college. I was a nice student,” he added. “I did very well. I’m a very intelligent person.”

Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree after studying two years at the school and another two at Fordham University in the Bronx.

The proud Wharton alum, who has a habit of making rude, harmful and often bullying remarks, has spent the past few weeks sparring with Sens. Jeff Flake (RAriz.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.).

“I think to a certain extent, maybe I can blame the media. But politics is a rough business,” Trump said as he left the White House on his way to a fund-raiser in Dallas.

The President took a moment from his high-minded defense to rip on Flake (inset, below). “Look, his poll numbers are terrible. He’s been terrible for the great people of Arizona, a state that likes Donald Trump very much,” he said. Flake, for his part, offered Trump faint praise — for driving a wedge into the conservative core of the GOP. The Arizona Republican, who announced his decision not to seek reelection next year by telling his colleagues he would not be “complicit” in Trump’s “reckless, outrageous and undignified” ways, sarcastically tipped his hat to the President. “I couldn’t run the campaign that I wanted to run and win in this kind of Republican Party,” Flake told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “So I guess the President does deserve credit, if you want to call it that.” Corker also blasted Trump, calling him “untruthful” and telling him he is debasing the nation. The President rode a wave of inflammatory and offensive rhetoric to the White House as he called for a Muslim ban, deemed illegal Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “bad hombres” and encouraged supporters to attack protesters at his rallies. He often bestows his rivals with derogatory nicknames such as “liddle” Bob Corker, “crooked” Hillary Clinton and “Pocahontas,” the moniker he gave Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.). He has recently feuded with the widow of a slain U.S. soldier and refused to condemn white supremacists following a violent