Does this sound like someone who can read to you?

[kpete]

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-reading-level-habits-2017-3

[madokie]

1. Sounds more like shit for brains

to me

[woodsprite]

2. Let's just say "My Pet Goat" is probably above his lexile score. nt

[riversedge]

3. I do not think the Trumps- as a family are into reading good books-the arts--or the sciences

for that matter. Maybe some are, but certainly not Trump himself.

[Rorey]

6. Agree

I was standing in line waiting to see Hillary last year, and one of my "line friends" said that Ivanka was smart. Another of my "line friends" said that she wasn't. He said he had gone to Wharton with Don Jr. and they were not smart. He also said that Don Jr. was a nice guy back then, but changed. He said that, at the time, Don Jr. never had any money. His father had to pay Ivana child support and wouldn't give the children money beyond that. This guy said he'd often cover Don Jr.'s part.

But I suspect that Ivanka had whatever her spoiled ass self desired from her dad.

[whathehell]

4. Tony Schwartz, who wrote 'The Art of the Deal', says he never saw

a single book in any of his three residences.

[ExciteBike66]

5. If Trump really loved to read his vocabulary would be way more advanced. nt

[gopiscrap]

15. Welcome to DU

[gademocrat7]

7. He doesn't read.

He can lie all day and all night.

[Hortensis]

8. Sounds like cripplingly short attention span.

Which a lot of observers believe is one of his serious problems.

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at M.I.T.; good genes, very good genes, O.K., very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, O.K. …”

Rump, believed to be criticizing the Iran nuclear deal.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Apparently, Uncle John got the last of the "good genes" to be

had in the Rump lineage.

[Hortensis]

14. Hmm! The sons rate negative numbers on the

impressive scale, for sure. Both, but especially the older, ethically challenged at best and likely involved in illegal activities.

I haven't formed an opinion about Ivanka. She's clearly rational and generally well functioning. To have a relationship with that mentally disordered father would require always seeming to be 100% on his side, and intensely admiring. If he distrusted her at any point, their relationship would be severely broken, perhaps permanently.

From what I've read, when her parents divorced when she was a young girl and he withdrew from her life (literally to a lower floor in a highrise), she actually reorganized her life so that she could call him every day from school and she could drop in on him every day he was there in order to keep the relationship alive.

What I'm wondering is if she (and the sons also sometimes) may be doing some of those immoral, unethical, stupid, and/or incredibly tacky things specifically because he advises her to and because constantly striving to please him is how she not only manages to stay close and have some influence but avoids being shut out in the cold with zero influence.

[Javaman]

9. sounds like bart simpson reporting on a book he didn't read for a report. nt

[janterry]

10. Glasses

If he even wanted to read, it's obvious that he needs a good pair of glasses.
(Oh, but vanity prevents that - doesn't it, dear Don?)

[Bettie]

12. His speech sounds like it is from

one of my little guy's books....from last year when he was in first grade. Short sentences, simple structure, reads like a book report from a first grader.

[Vinca]

13. I don't think he's even read his own ghost written book, much less anyone else's book.

The man is a bloody idiot. He can sign his name to executive orders he apparently can't read and that's it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. Just so you know, this is the book he was trying to read: