Trump: "I read a lot. You know, I read a lot. They like to say I don't read. I read a lot."

[kpete]

Quote of the Day
July 29, 2020 at 3:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 132 Comments

“I read a lot. You know, I read a lot. They like to say I don’t read. I read a lot. I comprehend extraordinarily well, probably better than anybody that you’ve interviewed in a long time. I read a lot.”

— President Trump, quoted by Politico.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/trump-russian-bounties-putin-call-385925

[Nevilledog]

1. We don't say you don't read. We say you can't read.

[FM123]

8. So funny, so true.....

[pepperbear]

40. they should put his intel briefings on the back of a cereal box.

[Ohiogal]

2. I got ... nothing for that.

[tanyev]

3. News chyrons don't count, Donny.

[OilemFirchen]

19. "Some call them crayons."

"I've heard them called pylons. Whatever you want to call them, the ones on One America News are big and beautiful. A lot of people say the biggest, the most beautiful. And very TRUE. Nobody has seen more truer caravans."

[tanyev]

28. LOL, perfect.

[LuckyCharms]

4. Puppy. Cow. Dick. Jane. Camera.

[Zambero]

5. From a prompter, and bigly badly!

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Give him a break, according to his college professors he can barely read.

[FakeNoose]

7. Dear Chump, can you read this:

D Y S L E X I A

.

.

.

[pansypoo53219]

37. my brother & i figured out we had dyslexia in HS. we still read. i just read slow, but i remember.

good for tests.

[procon]

9. The takeout menu at Fatburgers is quite extensive. nt

[chriscan64]

10. How about you turn off the Fox & Pals

and read the Presidential Daily Briefing Book?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. 'I read words like 'Man, Woman, Person, Camera, TV' very well. Very well indeed."

"A lot of people have even stopped and told me, 'Mr. President, Sir, I have never heard anyone read those words--Man, Woman, Person, Camera, TV--as well as you have. How do you do it, sir?"

[C_U_L8R]

12. "140 characters is a lot" admits the orange idiot

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Let's Be Abundantly Clear

The President of the United States (so to speak) spends interview time to tell people he reads.
Got that?!?
PINO must be convinced that the citizenry believes he does not read. If PINO didn't think that the majority accepted this as true, he would not address it all. "Ridiculous, next question."
But the POTUS need a run on sentence to dispel the notion he does not read.
This is terrible & pathetic at the subatomic level, it's so fundamentally bad.

[SammyWinstonJack]

38. He never misses an opportunity to defend himself. He looks for the moment in any situation to do so

Seems a bit insecure, imho.

[magicarpet]

14. He just scans the pictures in the book.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Looking for wardrobe malfunctions. Thinking to himself, "I wonder if bears DO IT in the woods."

[TheBlackAdder]

15. What magazines do you read? All of them!

[Moostache]

16. It helps me to survive this all knowing he is tormented inside that pea-brained head of his...

His lack of intelligence and comprehension and compassion and empathy have been laid totally bare before the world. He can't bluster or bully or sue his way out of this - the world KNOWS he is a foolish oaf of bad temper, worse disposition and limited actual value.

He also KNOWS this and it is antithetical to his fucked up upbringing and so it causes him CONSTANT cognitive dissonance - how can he (the 'greatest everything in perhaps the history of everywhere) actually be so stupid and so ignorant and so much so at the same time? His brain can't accept the reality of his life - he is a laughing stock, a fool, a joke and a cautionary tale to the future.

Suck on it Trumpy Bear, you are dumber than the excrement in my toilet and about as pleasant to spend time around.

[Initech]

18. He only reads books that are about him.

Have you seen his list of recommended books? Nearly all of them either mention his name in the title or they're written by Fox News personalities.

[gratuitous]

20. Easy follow up

What's the last book you read, Sir Readsalot?

Not what he's reading now, but the last one he read. Then ask a couple of questions about it, and let's see if he has any idea: "Weren't you glad at the end of 'Ol' Yeller' when he was reunited with his family?"

[soothsayer]

22. He read one on the 1918 flu

Which he insists ever since on calling the 1917 flu. So much for reading comprehension...

[Glamrock]

21. Oh yeah. Him and Sarah Palin.

Voracious readers the two of them. You can tell by the huge vocabulary that their both voracious readers. And by the fact that they have the best words. Ferfuckssake....

[IcyPeas]

23. here's proof

[Solly Mack]

24. What a loser.

[qazplm135]

25. Those Cheeto bags ain't going to read themselves

ya know.

[smb]

26. Sorry -- Porn Doesn't Count nt

[SiliconValley_Dem]

27. a person who actually reads a lot generally expresses themselves more clearly

and without repeating the same unvaried simple sentence multiple times in a short quote like this--especially when said quote is supposed to burnish their literacy credentials.

“I read a lot. You know, I read a lot. They like to say I don’t read. I read a lot. I comprehend extraordinarily well, probably better than anybody that you’ve interviewed in a long time. I read a lot."

[moonscape]

30. Even my mom didn't repeat that

badly and she had alzheimer’s.

[RainCaster]

29. Outhouse walls don't count

[whistler162]

31. Bazooka Bubblegum comics don't count!

[RestoreAmerica2020]

32. Prof. McWhorter, linguist re: #45s remedial language/oratory skills

Video at link; transcript unavailable]
[msnbc:Williams/Mcwhorter 9/7/2018 ]


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/linguist-expert-trump-sounds-like-your-beer-swilling-uncle-1315606083641&ved=2ahUKEwiig9Kkk7npAhXNuZ4KHbilACwQwqsBMAB6BAgKEAM&usg=AOvVaw0PaQ4i9BTF5KyuSko9cD56

[onethatcares]

33. Penthouse letters don't count

and if they did, it's not really reading anyway.

[Buns_of_Fire]

34. President Fredo. nt

[smirkymonkey]

35. Oh yes, sure you do!

Books like this...

[progressive nobody]

36. Well "The little engine that could" is several pages.

[bdamomma]

39. how many lies

is he up to now??? STFU.

Murderer.