Can Trump Read?

[Caliman73]

This is kind of in jest, but some of the arguments are compelling here.

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[Frogg]

1. Well he clearly didn't read the EO putting President Bannon on sec council...

Either he can't read or he won't read....which is worse?

[Angry Dragon]

4. I would say about equal

[elleng]

2. Dunno, but it appears to me his eyes don't work well.

Considering that he has attended (and graduated from school(s,) it's reasonable to suspect 'vision' problems.

P.S., I've had cataract surgery, just failed drivers' eye test, so required to drive with GLASSES (until 2d cataract surgery,) NBD! And notwithstanding that, I can read!

[Caliman73]

5. Remember that his family had money.

Graduating from schools when you are wealthy doesn't necessarily mean that you passed your classes. I believe that G W Bush was denied admission to the University of Texas, but got into Yale. He was not a good student either. We don't know how Trump did in school because he never released any transcripts or anything.

[Blue_true]

13. I met one of the dumbest people that I have

Ever known during my first year of upper division engineering school. It baffled me how he got through lower division engineering prep classes. I figured out that his best friend, who was smart as a whip, pulled him through the lower division classes, but engineering classes proved to be too tough for the friend to help him, the dummy vanished after one semester. Both were typical very upper class blonde males, the smarter one did well in engineering school, but changed his major to Finance after completing the first year of engineering school.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. No, actually he cant.

[TeamPooka]

6. watching him read things from his EO's to the teleprompter I'd say it was remedial level

[Hortensis]

12. Yes, can read so-so, but the crippling problem seems to be

the extremely short attention span commented on by many that won't let him get through a full page of information, or remember it if he tries. Which he no doubt knows very well.

Trump almost certainly is a poor reader, and he has a lot of company in that. Experts say people who don't read after school lose on average about 5 years off their highest reading level. Perhaps half of all Americans are only semi-literate in that they cannot read all they need to be able to. A The Atlantic, and even NY Times, article would be anything from unpleasantly hard work to effectively inaccessible depending on how bad the problem.

[lpbk2713]

7. I was listening today to part of a speech he made at MacDill AFB / CentCom.

The way he spoke was not like he usually expressed himself.
So he must have been reading off a Teleprompter.

[Caliman73]

10. Yeah. Probably not the most precise thread title

I don't think that he is completely illiterate, but he certainly shows a struggle in reading. Plus he doesn't like to read, which often goes together with not being proficient in it.

[handmade34]

8. there is a difference

between reading and comprehension... my sense is that he has little ability to comprehend complex thoughts

[Laffy Kat]

9. His vocabulary is certainly limited.

Tremendous, bad, sad, etc.

[spiderpig]

11. and of course his trademark "veryvery" n/t

[Brother Buzz]

14. Freud and Jung could explain why he can read adequately, just not in public

It's very complicated.