Cheeto can't read

[jodymarie aimee]

Stern and David Pakman showing tapes of him in court. Judge demands he read documents. He couldn't. His attny. made excuses for him. Said he didn't have his glasses...when have we ever seen him wear spectacles.....

[oberliner]

1. All the time

[OKNancy]

2. thank you - he has a lot of faults

but this latest "he is illiterate" is one of those stupid theories that make us look bad.
There is another thread on DU about the same subject. I pointed out that he read the teleprompters all the time.
He is lazy and ignorant, but he can read.

[doodsaq]

5. Agree (nt)

[NYC Liberal]

6. Didn't Samantha Bee invent this theory as a joke to show how

ridiculous the right's anti-Hillary "theories" were? I hope people didn't actually take that seriously. Apparently they did.

[Agschmid]

13. Yup.

[OregonBlue]

14. He seems to have a lot of trouble reading. I suspect he is dyslexic and it was never

corrected because back when we were in school they really didn't have a method for teaching dyslexic kids.

[RegexReader]

3. need to focus

on more important things such as taking it to the streets.

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[Vinca]

4. Just yesterday he was reading off a teleprompter at that stupid prayer breakfast and

said he grew up in a "churched" house. What the hell is a "churched" house????

[Dulcinea]

7. I've heard that term used in the Deep South.

It means people who have grown up in a religious household.

[treestar]

9. But what relationship did he have with the Deep South?

He grew up in NYC. Just shows someone else wrote the speech, I guess.

[sarah FAILIN]

8. He runs his fingers underneath the words

That is the sign of a poor reader, but he can read. Just not at a normal for age level

[meaculpa2016]

11. I run my finger across the page...

and at my best I can read 800 words per minute.

I was much better when I was in my 20s and 30s, but that's when I had to read faster to keep up with my studies and do large amounts of reading for my job. Now, at 66, 3/4s of my reading is for pleasure and I can't imagine spending days to read a book.

I've never used a Kindle. Only "Yucky Books" as my daughter used to describe them.