Trump's lethal aversion to reading

[Arkansas Granny]

If you're reading this sentence, you've read more than the president has today.

Last month, The Washington Post reported that President Trump ignored "more than a dozen" intelligence briefings in January and February warning him of the coronavirus. They were in the President's Daily Brief, which the president doesn't read.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro wrote a memo in January warning of "a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on U.S. soil." Trump said he didn't see it because "Peter sends a lot of memos," none of which he reads.

After failing to read about the coronavirus, Trump failed to respond to it. It's not a stretch to say that if the president read, thousands of lives might have been saved.

https://theweek.com/articles-amp/915606/trumps-lethal-aversion-reading?__twitter_impression=true

[ms liberty]

1. This piece is just brutal. A thing of beauty. K&R.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. This phrase especially caught my attention.

"He's too dumb to know he's ignorant, and he's too narcissistic to care."

[dhol82]

5. Classic Dunning-Kruger

[ms liberty]

7. There were several great ones and that was one.

[OneBro]

2. "Mein Kampf" is the ONLY thing Trump has ever read.

[COLGATE4]

3. I don't even believe that he has read it. Just says he did.

[3Hotdogs]

8. He had Dick Cheney 'splain it to him.

[Scarsdale]

14. With flash cards

and torture videos from his personal collection.

[COLGATE4]

23. Winner!

[OneBro]

9. You might be right, but . . .

Trump clearly studied the “cliff notes.”

“Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, 'My New Order', which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.
. . .
[When asked whether he actually owned a copy], “Trump responded: “Who told you that?"

He went on to explain that it was "his friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.”

Https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-adolf-hitler-books-bedside-cabinet-ex-wife-ivana-trump-vanity-fair-1990-a7639041.html

[ewagner]

21. As I understand it....

Mein Kampf is dense, small print and over 900 pages. I understood that Trump didn't read Mein Kampf but a collection of Hitler's Speeches...which, I've been told, is a much easier read.

I am inclined to believe this distinction because of watching Trump in his rallies. He uses the same cadence, the same techniques and the same gestures. Actually his gestures remind me more of Mussolini than Hitler but the genre is the same.

Can anyone confirm this?

[Botany]

6. He didn't read about C-19 in November 2019 either

BTW Trump and company were told of the virus and the real possibility of a global pandemic
in November of 2019*. And that is when Trump and Kush-Turd invested in their own C-19
test kits and hydroxycholorquine. Trump owing China a shit load of money might have very well
contributed to his late and ill prepared response to C-19 too.


* https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273

Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources
"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," a source said.

[ron dawson]

10. Trump's Lethal Aversion to Reading

Given trump's well-known dislike of the written word, this report got me speculating on whether he would break with another tradition: the building of a presidential library. And, if he did build one, what form would it take, given some of his particular proclivities?

Then it hit me. How about as an add-on wing to the Mustang Ranch in Nevada? First, it would avoid any of the legal problems he would undoubtedly encounter in any other state. Second, in keeping with his "grab 'em by the..." mentality, it might take the form of an individual, private, pay-per-view screening for "discriminating gentlemen". Finally, it would be ideal for Melania as well. She'll be able to just walk to work.

[niyad]

18. You nearly owed me a keyboard with that last sentence. A very clever idea, if Mustang is

Still open.

[7wo7rees]

24. Presidential Gold Toilet

$49.99 t-shirts emblazoned with: "I took a dump like Trump!"

Obama toilet paper.

$100 per ride.

Lines for miles.

[2naSalit]

11. K&R

[bronxiteforever]

12. Kick and recommend. Brilliant! This dovetails

With his lack of empathy. He never felt the pain of Lear, the fear of Winston Smith or the compassion of Scout.

[Xipe Totec]

13. The country is not divided Red vs Blue, it's divided Red vs Read nt

[Laelth]

16. +1

Very clever and insightful.

[Stuart G]

15. Incredible..and Amazing...Thank You for posting..He was warned, didn't read the warning...

didn't care either..

[Laelth]

17. Excellent essay. Highly recommended. n/t

-Laelth

[H2O Man]

19. Recommended.

[llmart]

20. Bush Jr. didn't read any briefings either.

These lazy, entitled white men were used to having someone else do all the work for them their entire lives. One just wanted to clear brush on his fake ranch and the other just wanted to go after every vulnerable woman he could con into being with him.

The modern day GOP has absolutely no scruples or morals. They enable people like these two to rise to the highest office in this land and then look the other way when they lie and ignore the rule of law because they've got their hands in the cookie jar too.

[dalton99a]

22. Kick

Trump's former National Economic Council director Gary Cohn allegedly wrote in an email, "Trump won't read anything — not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored."

The only information that interests Trump is information that affirms his self-image. He's rich, handsome, and popular — that's what he wants to hear, which is why he regularly says it himself.

[Martin Eden]

25. I doubt dRumpf would have done anything different

Even if someone got his attention and read the daily briefing to him.