It could be that he’s dyslexic but never needed to overcome it or even really hide it.
When hosting SNL, Donald Trump ‘struggled to read,’ says former cast member. Can the President read?
Dyslexia and other forms of LD are indicators that someone is very high functioning in intelligence
I would so like to agree (being mildly dyslexic and intellectually conceited), but I’d like to see some data for that assertion. Various forms of LD are just that – I don’t believe that there’s any good correlation between them and “intelligence.” I’ve had many students with LDs and there were definitely some super smart ones, but there were also some really dumb ones…
A propos of Trump, if he’s dyslexic, it doesn’t really show up in his gaffes reading teleprompters (for example, when I read aloud I reverse words, or read out words from the line adjacent – I haven’t heard him doing that). People with Dyslexia can struggle to read, for sure, but people who don’t read ALSO struggle to read. I would bet that Trump falls into that later category.
A six year old may know how to read and read “well” for his age, but if he doesn’t continue to read, and start reading more complex texts, he will have a very poor literacy when he is an adult – it doesn’t just automatically improve on its own. By all accounts Trump does not read much by choice, and has not been forced to read since he was in school 50 years ago. That he is bad at it, and avoids it, should not be surprising.
(Surprising that he’s the POTUS, but that is another thing!)
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DING DING DING DING 
We have a winner. Johnny, why don’t you tell them what they’ve won.
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I like that she’s pointing more towards the rear part of the horse.
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The man has thrived, for better or worse, with whatever prevents him from reading like a shakespearean thespian. I can understand not having the desire to overcome it. In fact, he’s the President of the United States. I’d say he HAS overcome it.
Funny how the Republican Party has been selling anti-intellectualism as a product and deploying figureheads who seem out of their depth?
Yes it is.
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this is ten times dishier than #trumprussia.
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A Shakespearean thespian? That’s setting the bar pretty high. He doesn’t appear to be able to read/speak like an average high school freshman.
I have thought for a long time that he has dementia. The way he overgeneralizes all the time - everything is great, the greatest, the best - really reminds me of how my grandma acted when her memory started going.
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I have thought for a long time that he has dementia. The way he overgeneralizes all the time - everything is great, the greatest, the best - really reminds me of how my grandma acted when her memory started going.
Except that he’s been talking like that for decades.
My money’s on just intellectually-challenged. Perhaps bigly.
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Watch the video. They show how much more articulate he was when he was younger. Still a loon…
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It would be convenient if he were to have dementia, because then there would be the hope of removing him from office (although they didn’t do so for Reagan although it was clear to the people working with him at the time that he was ailing). But one clip of him being slightly articulate when he was younger doesn’t prove much to me. One could easily find recent clips from his campaign in which he was just as articulate as that speech (which isn’t really a high bar).
I remember him from the 80’s, I lived in NY so he was in the news, and I heard him on Howard Stern, and he always made grandiose, vague, and often completely erroneous claims. He’s way further out of his league now, so the gaps in his understanding are more telling. Likewise the standing by wholesale fabrications is not new. He was spouting that birther nonsense eight years ago!
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ChickieD, perhaps you are right. I wasn’t particularly moved by the video, but just now I read this in Mother Jones. If it’s true then, perhaps yes. I mean, how could he forget the country he just bombed?!?
Very typical of seniors to focus on things that are innocuous and not fact based - like how delicious the chocolate cake is, or how “great” someone is, or - politics actually can be a great thing to discuss with old people because everyone has an opinion and whose to say if your opinions are right or wrong.
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Well I’d say his main skill is as a salesperson. Counting and percentages are probably his best skills.
Some of the best sales people in the past were functionlly illiterate but they could buy and sell you in a trice !! Potus may well be Doofus but not with MONEY . He seems to know nothing about the USA as a country
or what his role as President should be . He has sold himself to the American voters and now they want to see some results but he doesn’t know what to deliver or how !! He needs to be told what to do and he appears to have no useful ideas of his own !!
He’s a doofus with money too. He drove a casino into the ground, has left a trail of literally-name-branded product failures in his wake, and has declared bankruptcy multiple times. To his credit, he figured out how to found a charity organization that pays for a lot of suspiciously personal expenses, but I’m going to chalk that up to him being a top-tier grifter with a bunch of actually-skilled accountants in his employ, not a talented salesperson.
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I didn’t know all that .Thank you ! So he is even worse than I thought.
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