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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan the President read (above a fourth grade level) ?
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Can the President read (above a fourth grade level) ? (Original Post)
ginnyinWI
Feb 2017
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)1. Can he *think* above a fourth grade level?
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)3. reading, speaking, and thinking
They all go together. Thinks in terms of black and white. Bad guys and good guys. Winning and losing. Fantastic or Disaster.
onecaliberal
(32,831 posts)2. No
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)4. I find this very unfair...
...to fourth graders.
msongs
(67,395 posts)5. get a grade level analysis of his speaking here - use a quote of his conversational speech not
written text which may have been written by someone else.
http://www.thewriter.com/what-we-think/readability-checker/
he usually checks in around 5th grade level
Thirties Child
(543 posts)6. Before the election
my reading of him was (1) he had the emotional maturity of a 13-year-old, (2) the attention span of a flea, and (3) a narcissism that made him easy to manipulate. Last week I added (4) he's a sociopath. Now I need to revise my emotional maturity level to 7 years old, and add (5) reading level of 9.