Rex Tillerson said Donald Trump does not read however

[INdemo]

could it be
Dyslexia ?

Difficulty with reading
• Difficulty learning to read
• Difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words or counting syllables in words (Phonological Awareness)
• Difficulty with hearing and manipulating sounds in words (Phonemic Awareness)
• Difficulty distinguishing different sounds in words (Auditory Discrimination)
• Difficulty in learning the sounds of letters
• Difficulty remembering names and/or the order of letters when reading
• Reverses letters or the order of letters when reading
• Misreads or omits common little words
• "Stumbles" through longer words
• Poor reading comprehension during oral or silent reading
• Slow, laborious oral reading

Was this something his parents overlooked when he was a child?

I say this not as a joke but perhaps he also had a learning disability as a child.

Is this something the White House aides know about and are trying to cover up?

[lonely bird]

1. Now there

is an "alert the media." No Schlitz, rex.

[JI7]

2. no, people with dyslexia still read, especially important things

[htuttle]

3. Others have wondered the same

https://bookriot.com/2018/02/22/can-trump-read/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-mental-health-michael-wolff-learning-disabilities-dementia-adhd-read-semi-literate-fire-a8146176.html

[dameatball]

4. I don't see how this helps us get him out of office. Sorry. More like a pillow fight.

Unless he will go on record that Trump committed crimes it doesn't mean much other than to make most of us feel good. Surely Tillerson has more things to say than that. Bring it.

[yonder]

5. When he's not mangling something, he seems to do okay

when he has to read from a teleprompter or script.

I think it boils down to Dyslazyia.

[dalton99a]

6. His attention span is garbage, but he does look at the newspapers in the President's Dining Room

when he's not watching Fox

[Hekate]

7. A number of prominent people turned out to have dyslexia, once it was finally diagnosable...

Good people, successful in their careers, honest and kind to others -- I'm sure you know what I'm getting at here. (It's been a lot of years, but I think Nelson Rockefeller was one such.) They had to work hard on memorization for public speaking, and the ones who became successful in business no doubt had excellent secretaries.

But, as with all learning disabilities, dyslexics as children are often told they are stupid and acting out and behaving the way they do on purpose to spite their parents and teachers. In the case of the Trump Family I can well believe that.

However, something else entirely is profoundly wrong with the wiring in Donald Trump's brain. His innate cruelty, narcissism, and utter inability to see other human beings as anything other than tools for his use are what is toxic about this White House, not any putative learning disability.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. As someone who deals with

Dyslexia. Reading is one thing I do as much as possible. Comprehension is a bitch at times,which means I have to read certain paragraphs more than once.

Trump is not Dyslexic,my guess is he might be suffering with a learning disability. His penmanship is a clue.

[safeinOhio]

12. There are many pathologies associated with Dyslexia...

including ADD, Dysgraphia and other learning disabilities. Many connections to how each person deals with language.

[Wellstone ruled]

15. Thanks for the info.

Bottom line,one learns how to function with and train ones self how to improve ones skill set with passing of time.

Again,Trump could very well being dealing with Dyslexia in one or more of it's forms. After thinking about it,I do recognize a couple of personal similarities.

[Aristus]

9. I doubt it. He's just not very bright, he's lazy, and he's never been taught to apply himself.

Let's not make excuses for the dipshit...

[brush]

10. That's more like it. He's skated thru life, first on daddy's money...

which helped him get through things half-assed, even college (faking that he went to Wharton business school), then later after his father died and having cheated his siblings out of hundreds of millions of his father's fortune, he bullied his way through the rest of life, never being held accountable for his cheating and short changing of vendors, the multiple bankruptcies, many failed business scams etc.

Now is the first time he's being held accountable for anything, and it's going to bring him down.

Thank you, Mueller, and journalists like Jim Acosta who wouldn't lay off calling out he and lying Huckabee Sanders.

[lunatica]

11. None of this stuff was general knowledge when he was a child

Neither his parents or teachers would have any way of knowing his stuff.

40 years ago was when Dyslexia was first recognized and diagnosed.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. His parents were probably happy when they could finally ...

... dump him off at a military prep academy high school. Then he's somebody else's problem.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. That further increases my suspicion that his college papers were written by different people.

.

He probably paid, sometimes, for papers. When he stiffed the writers, he had to find another one.

I bet there are multiple writers, for his college papers, and they would all have different voices and styles.

.

[demtenjeep]

16. he is just a fat lazy motherfucker!

who expects everyone to do it all for him


Umbrella?

jacket?




he thinks he is large and in charge and those beneath him are to do his work.

I would almost bet he has someone to wipe his ass after those nasty shit dumps

[vanamonde]

17. I can't stand to watch him myself, but

He's over 70 years old - has anybody ever seen him put on a pair of reading glasses in public? If not, I would guess that the reason is either his overweening vanity or simply no reason to put them on since he can't read.