Could this be possible? I’ve seen a few Youtube pieces claiming that Trump is illiterate using video clips of Trump being asked to read leases and such like, and he just glances at the paper, and summarizes what he thinks the lease says.
Now, obviously, the guy reads teleprompters, but he never stays on them for long. He’s always going of on wild tangents that might or might not be related to the subject at hand.
He’s not totally illiterate, no. But I think he might really find big words and complex phrasing a problem. He could be what is known as a functional illiterate. As an ordinary person, getting by without knowing how to read fluently is difficult, but doable. As a president, it’s freakin’ dangerous.
I wasn’t sure what forum to put this in, but yes or no. For real, is Trump a functional illiterate?
I don’t know how you could find out, short of dropping by the Oval and giving him a reading test. But I don’t find it at all hard to believe that an arrogant rich man’s arrogant kid grew up without ever really learning to read and process written information when he could just bluster, wave his hands and get other people to do everything, then tell him about it.
And it explains much about his bizarre processes and actions.
David Pakman has a youtube channel. He’s obviously very left wing biased - but has put out a number of videos supporting the theory that Trump is borderline illiterate.
I think there’s a few more on his channel if you want to search them out.
After his teleprompter performance a while ago, I wondered aloud to my wife about whether he has dyslexia. He reads in a monotone and seems to labor at it.
I believe it would be extremely difficult to get thru and Ivy League school as a “functional illiterate”. That’s not the same thing as what your question implies.
I’d disagree; I think he’s somewhere above normal intelligence overall. Intelligence has nothing to do with dyslexia or illiteracy, in some/many cases.
I think it, and his whole style, is the result of (1) a reasonably intelligent person who (2) has difficulty with written information [from dyslexia, ADHD or just laziness] and (3) could get away with blustering misdirection from an early age. He can’t maintain a complicated discourse very long (see reasons above) and so has evolved to this blustering, vague razzle-dazzle persona. Money let him.
Yes it is. There’s no shortage of privkids who are dumb as rocks and never accomplish much of anything outside the family safety net, with Ivied degrees on the wall. Whether it’s just influence, or tutors, or cheating, or outright “buying” the degree, it may be very selective but it’s not rare.
See above post; Trump is not stupid, but he has some kind of information-processing limitations that money let him survive with. Not the first. Not the last. Not something we really want in a Chief Executive, either.
I really really love all these propaganda pieces shouting Trump is crude, stupid, illiterate, slobbering, easily manipulated, foolish, lewd, hot-tempered, thin-skinned, narcissistic, misogynistic, brutish, bullying, lying, mentally ill, unstable, temperamentally unfit, dangerous, insecure, treasonous, ignorant, paranoid, demented and gibbers like a baboon in the heat of the night.
Allow it all, and what the hell does it say about half-wit Hillary that she lost to such a clown ?
One of the theories of his election that that he is very understandable to blue collar workers. “He talks like we do,” rather than “He speaks in an educated manner.”
If I offered people a choice of a Big Mac or foie gras, I bet you that the Big Mac would be more popular.
That isn’t to say that foie gras is univerally regarded as superior, as force-feeding geese to make their livers get engorged is really pretty bad. But compared to what goes into a Big Mac? The familiarity with the Big Mac is its only selling point: we’re used to that crap sandwich.
