# Thanks, Mr.President

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-mr-president/1028383>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [March 11, 2026, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-mr-president/1028383 "2026-03-11T22:57:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-mr-president/1028383/1 "2026-03-11T22:57:51Z")

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Now I have a mental disorder because I’m dyslexic.

You, Mr. Trump have a mental disorder. It’s called “stooopidity”

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-mr-president/1028383/2 "2026-03-12T00:10:37Z")

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What? Surely Trump wrote this earlier announcement by his own hand!

> **[Statement from President Donald J. Trump on National Dyslexia Awareness Month...](https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-national-dyslexia-awareness-month/)**

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-mr-president/1028383/3 "2026-03-12T03:14:04Z")

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Yikes that’s older than I thought. He never cared about anyone and their struggles.

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**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-mr-president/1028383/4 "2026-03-12T13:55:43Z")

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I’ve always found proclamations like that to have such minimal effect. How is our administration going to determine evidence-based solutions and apply them in every single district? That takes a lot more funding than is under consideration.

I wrote a grouchy email to the Secretary of Education on this topic today. They’ll probably just send me an AI response but it got the anger out of me.