Uh-Oh: Does Donald Trump Know How to Read?

[rsacamano]

[Norbert9]

1. The answer is no

I nomintae blah blah of scotus to be of the scotus.

I never thought there would be someone so much worse than dubya. And he blows that threshold out of the water

[tomhagen]

2. He won't be reading ANY Presidential Daily Security Briefs.

And you know what happens when Presidents fail to read them. 911.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. This is a fair analysis. At a minimum, Trumpy is as lazy as a log and soley operates

as a function of acetylcholine secretions. He has to "get juiced" to put on a show, but doesn't have the attention span for 30 seconds of rational thought. As one who is over 60, I get the "I don't have my reading glasses" excuse. At times, it's legitimate. But that he didn't even BRING his reading glasses (if he has any) to a deposition is phenomenally irresponsible, or it's a crass manipulation that does hide the high probability that Trumpy has a 3rd grade reading level.

[yuiyoshida]

8. I think "lazy" is a key word here.. he may well know how to read

but figures, like higher math from high school, he doesn't have to do it any longer. Infact maybe he has people read it to him.

[world wide wally]

4. All you need is money

[randr]

5. I have been trying to say this all along

His staged readings are the clue!

[LittleGirl]

6. I believe

he is intellectually unable to process anything, much less legalese.

[Rural_Progressive]

10. I think that's the bottom line

I believe he is capable of reading, he's just not interested and he's lazy.

I think he's forfeited his cognitive abilities by not using them for so long. Plus as an added bonus since he has requires his lawyers and advisers to do all his thinking for him he can take sole credit for his successes and blame all his failures on the shortcomings of the people he hires and then of course FIRES.

Difficult to imagine a more dangerous person as POTUS and yet here we are.

[JTFrog]

7. My 7 year old granddaughter reads better than him. And she has much better manners. nt

[onlyadream]

9. He is probably dyslexic

I work in that field and I see warning signs for sure. Also, I live in NY and heard (through the grapevine) that Barron has dyslexia. If true, since it runs in families, it makes perfect sense. It also explains his insecure personality. It's really pretty sad. Now he's relying on Bannon, and trusting that man. Wow.

[maddiemom]

11. Yes! As a reading specialist myself, (as you know, but others reading this may not) is a

field in education that trains the teacher to recognize reading difficulties, tests to pin down specific problems (dyslexia the most common, but not the only one: sight and hearing difficulties having been the earliest recognized) and developing lesson plans to correct the problems. I'm one of many teachers who've diagnosed this problem (in the general sense) since Trump started seriously running for election and discussed it on line. You may remember one "press conference" in which he badly stumbled and attempted to paraphrase the contents of whatever it was he attempted to read. Trump attended the kind of private schools that, at least in his day, placated wealthy parents by passing their kids on into, often legacy, colleges, rather than dealing with any real learning problems that they might have. Certainly we've had previous presidents with this legacy, but most, even Dubya (I can't believe I'm saying this)didn't have this "business killer" instinct, above all else, including family. Trump seems increasingly a Monster.

[onlyadream]

12. It makes perfect sense

Trump doesn't conjugate words correctly, and he incorrectly turns adjectives into adverbs. He was a "rabble rouser" as a youngster, and was the only child in his family sent away to school. I'm sure he has ADD as well (which is very common in people with dyslexia).

George W. always fumbled his words, which was a big clue (being that dyslexia is a language based disorder).

[maddiemom]

16. Yep. I think you nailed it with Trump regarding ADD.

Come to think of it, he does show all the signs. While no fan of the Bushes, I suspect Dubya had some family recognition and indulgence of learning problems. Trump would just be shipped off to military school, not known as dealing with learning disabilities in those days

[Plucketeer]

13. One could give a box of rocks

8 Million in seed money and the box could do OK with advisors at each elbow.

[tclambert]

14. A box of rocks would listen better and have more intellectual curiosity than King Joffrey does.

I meant President Trump. King Joffrey was just a slip of the fingers.

[tclambert]

15. Wait, if Donald dictates his tweets and he tweets at 3 a.m. . . .

Does Melania know he hangs out with his executive assistant at 3 a.m.? Cue the soap opera music.

[markpkessinger]

17. This is especially interesting given reports that he is upset over not being "fully briefed" . . .

. . . about the executive order that put Bannon on the NSC. When I read about that, my first thought was, "Doesn't he read what he sign?" Never occurred to me that maybe he really can't!

[3catwoman3]

18. As commentator/host David Pakman points...

..., the "I didn't bring my glasses" excuse seems a rather disingenuous, as Trump has never been seen wearing any glasses other than sunglasses.