She is convinced that Trump can't read either - but she doesn't know who types his tweets! Maybe it's Barron Trump that tweets for his Daddy!

How the fk could he arrive at the conclusion he did, it's fucking scary. No wonder he's fine with delegating important decisions to others, does he understand basic shit??/

Christ.

No. He does not.

That would go a long way to explaining his strange writing style. His tweets read like he sounds when he speaks.

limited vocabulary. He says he hasn't changed since fifth grade. I'd say that's about the level he reads and comprehends at.

He made the same point you're making - how he speaks is a tell.

Would you happen to have a link? I didn't find it in a quick google search.

listen out for his observation that reasoning is "transferable" across domains around 5:00 mark..

may be that is why his supporters relate to him he speaks their language.

They hear him talking to them. Others don't speak their language, and sound condescending. I hate the man, but he was able to make himself heard by people who believed they were not being listened to by others seeking their support. He's like one of them who made it, except he was born into it and grifted himself into it.

Wrong. He is illiterate because he makes no effort to improve his scope of knowledge about the constitution, the world, and his responsibilities to this nation and its people.

He read that Breitbart crap, which came from that Levin radio guy, and he proceeded to accuse the former president of a felony. He should rot in maximum security prison.

and whoever.

He doesn't read, he isn't intellectually curious about anything.

Total dumbass. And he attracts dumbasses because of it.

Now that he's aging a mile a minute, he's a mumbling, bumbling, illiterate, incoherent mess.

He's reverting to a childlike state IMO.

He's far worse.

I have engaged with people who can't read or write but otherwise have a basic intelligence and decency absolutely lacking in Donald Trump.

He did well with teleprompter before Congress and was recorded practicing the speech in the Presidential Limousine. As always hints and rumors.

Normally as a life long special education teacher I could work up sympathy for a person with a disability. Not Trump no sympathy or empathy.

psychobabble

I'm pretty sure I saw this on the new Gawker website about 5 or 6 months ago.
I'll post the link here if I can find it.

People who are special reading teachers / counselors have said that Trump shows the signs of being dyslexic.
It's not the same as being illiterate, but it's definitely a problem of underachievers.

With a lot of work and good teachers, a person with dyslexia can overcome the problem, but most people don't bother.
So the result is they have trouble reading their entire lives. In the case of the Cheeto, he's so rich that he
pays other people to do his reading for him. They just tell him how smart he is because it's their job to do that.

But he is someone who never reads.

And since he never reads, and especially since he never reads fiction, he has zero way of identifying with anyone but himself. I will challenge all of you to consider this: if you never read anything outside your own limited experience, how can you possibly understand others?

All of us, no matter how well read or travelled, live within a bubble. The bubble may be larger or smaller, depending on various circumstances, but it is still a bubble. And yet we still strive to understand the other.

THAT (striving to understanding the other) is the essence of liberalism/progressivism. Without that striving we are lost in our bubble. It might be a right-wing bubble, it might be a left wing bubble, but it is still a bubble.

Donald Trump, like all of us is in a bubble. But unlike many of us (especially those of us at DU) has no clue he's in a bubble. And even if he learns that, he won't give a flying fuck. Because he thinks his view of the world is valid, is the only one that matters, and he absolutely must impose it upon all of us.

Here's the kicker. I'm speaking as someone who reads a lot, both fiction and non fiction. I can honestly say a read a far greater variety in both fiction and non fiction than anyone else I know. Because I read both, and widely in both, I have an appreciation of lots of stuff. As an aside, I'm currently reading Where Nobody Knows Your Name by John Feinstein, about minor league baseball. Absolutely fascinating. I'm not much of a baseball fan, and I have literally never heard of any of the players I've so far encountered (143 pages in). but I'm mesmerized because of what I'm learning about human nature and various details of life in baseball's minor leagues.

My point is, that by reading lots of different things, I'm opening myself to all sorts of different ideas. Someone who never reads never encounters different ideas. And so, I submit, is true of Donald Trump. He doesn't read. He never encounters anything outside his narrow world. And that makes him a terrible businessman, an incompetent human being, and a total disasters as a President.

I'm inclined to agree with you.

Because he likes to say he has the best words and smartest words I enjoy calling him illiterate.

Still it's scary as hell that such an individual is President. He's going to embarrass himself , and us, more than he already has if that were possible to imagine.

very well at all, that when it was his turn to say a line, he'd pause like he was trying to sound it out and he'd emphasize the wrong words, as if each time was a cold reading.

Given that he insists his briefings have no more than 9 bullet points and be only one page (no matter the complexity or gravity of the subject), we can see that he finds reading complete sentences to be taxing, even onerous.

Also, he does such a fucking weird "ooh" kissy-thing with his lips after almost every single word - forming his lips like he's going to whistle. That has to be some type of tic. I don't think it's Queens or NY thing.

NOBODY ELSE does that!!! NOBODY! It's like he never learned how to form his lips around sounds properly. It is disgusting! It's repugnant. It bugs the hell out of me, and I don't really care anymore if that sounds mean. He looks like an bloomin' idiot when he does that ooh thing.

I can't think of any tic Obama had that bothered me. I found it assuring when he would take a pause to think about the phrasing he wanted to use. He is a lovely man.

I think. Maybe not. What the hell do I know?

I am with you 100%. It bugs the hell out of me too.

That always grated on my nerves. Maybe if he had not been otherwise so eloquent I would not have noticed it, but it was noticeable.

said the same thing.

Trump can't follow a script because he won't even read the cue cards.

He just makes everything up as he goes along, and each week they had hours of videotape that couldn't be used because he messed up the takes. It all had to be edited out, including many, many racist and sexist things he said right on camera.

Sooner or later, all the outtakes of him saying these awful things are going to hit the internet. I keep waiting for somebody to leak them. They should have been leaked during the campaign, and he would have been DONE!

Apparently some of the top ranking Republicans know about these videotapes, and they've been scared they would come out and embarrass the GOP. But we know now for sure, NOTHING about Trump can ever embarrass them.

Too late for that.

In the way a tricycle is like a Harley-Davidson.

Failing NY Times. " This is his explaination of how he knows Obama was wiretapping him.
The President of the U.S.

He's dyslexic, but many dyslexics do very well, even academically. He is also a MF sociopath and a pathological liar. He is a danger to America and the world. Some Repubs see it, but they mostly want to get their agenda done, before they call him out.

A L L (name I will not utter nor type) A L L the time.

I need a sound proof room where I can go to get away from 24-7-365 shit-stain-in-chief.

But I really do like your post!

If you want?

from a normal cognitive pattern, a short circuit of sorts. Even a five year-old has more self awareness.

But the worst thing we can do as progressives is to mention any mental handicaps he might possess!

but at the end of the day, he's an asshole. At least that's my diagnosis. Spent hid whole life being an asshole and has it polished to perfection.

are/were actually illiterate. I do know that Gaddafi was illiterate. He couldn't read or write. There's a video of him taken by a reporter before a major speech where he took a random book off a shelf, tore several pages out of it, made large scribbles on the pages then pretended to read his speech from them.
I guess I digress.

When he gave a speech to congress he read it off of the teleprompter

There's basic literacy - where you can read basic prose, understand simple instructions, or follow short instructions. Basic literacy skills also involve the ability to solve simple math problems. We're talking fifth grade level here.

More advanced literacy skills would show an ability to read longer prose texts, to understand metaphors, to grasp conditionals and complex ideas. This comes with practice and interest in expanding literacy skills - the President is not interested in either of those things and it shows.

He is literate

There are levels to literacy that goes beyond just knowing how to read or write, that's my point - it's the point of my op. He read two articles and saw an interview and drew an inane conclusion because he doesn't understand simple shit. Not the first time either.

And it's not just me who's noticed problems regarding Trump in this area. He does speak and sound like he dropped out of school around fifth grade.

but I think we can agree he is a severe dumbass

I believe he's dyslexic and hides it poorly.

he has fundamental literacy problems re comprehension.

I am not sure he actually won, he surely did not come particularly close to winning the popular vote, but he did get tens of millions to actually believe he was presidential caliber. If that isn't confirmation of the dumbing down of America I don't know what is.

of Trump at a deposition being asked to read his previous testimony or something and it was clear he wasn't making heads or tails of it. I think he can sign his name and that's about it.

he can bullshit like a champ, but otherwise he's dumb as a stump

His intelligence level is probably average at best, and he displays an astonishing level of ignorance on any issue not involving real estate. Worse yet, he doesn't recognize that he lacks fundamental knowledge and he has no desire to educate himself about things. No president can know everything about every issue, but most of them surround themselves with knowledgeable people and then actually listen to what they have to say. Trump has no intellectual curiosity. He's a lazy con artist.

Nobody knew being president could be so complicated. His arrogance is mind blowing. He thought he could just waltz into office and magically fix complex issues that many, intelligent and competent people have worked on for years. And it's all because he thinks he's the smartest guy in the world.

But he is plenty stupid and lazy.