Does Trump Even Know How to Read? Shocking Evidence That He Can't.

[CousinIT]

[paulkienitz]

1. if he can't read, how can he tweet?

According to @roguePOTUSstaff, it sounds like his problem with reading is not dyslexia or illiteracy, but an unwillingness to wear glasses.

[CousinIT]

2. Watch the video. In 'Art of the Deal' he says he dictates his tweets to assistants

and they tweet using his account.

[subterranean]

4. No, he attributes the phrase "Time is money" to the "Art of the Deal."

Twitter didn't exist when the book was published in the late 1980s.

But yes, he did tweet that he dictates his tweets to his executive assistant (including, presumably, that tweet). And that made me wonder: Does he wake up his executive assistant at 3:00 a.m. to send out his ridiculous tweets? And how much time and money does he really save by dictating a 140-character tweet instead of inputting it himself?

[CousinIT]

5. You are right. And I wondered the same thing - does he make some assistant tweet his

ridiculous 3:00 a.m. tweets?

[putitinD]

3. the video said he dictates to a staffer, who tweets for him.

[czarjak]

6. Reruns?

Really DU?

[Amaryllis]

7. Sam Bee did a full segment on Full Frontal on this.

[Jughead]

8. Every phone has voice recognition today

[randr]

10. That may explain the odd syntax of his twits

[randr]

9. I have long suspected this

The over acted occasions where he is supposed to be reading are telling. He would not be pretending to read unless he wanted people to think he can read. Man is total farce.

[maddiemom]

11. As a reading specialist, I can attest that if Trump

can read at all, it would seem to be on a very low elementary grade level. "Forgetting my glasses" is the commonly used excuse for adults who have been faking it all their lives. He would definitely be wearing glasses or contacts if his eyesight was the problem. Probably he is dyslexic (the reading disorder most common and understood by most of the public), but it is impossible to know without testing. Notice he looks down at the page, hiding his eyes the entire time and probably not moving them. The expensive private schools he attended would certainly pass a rich kid through, and not make an issue of his problem if the family didn't care to hear about it or ask for help. Many years back, there was an excellent TV movie (can 't recall the name) with Dennis Weaver. It showed exactly the methods a bright, even middle class person who can't read can fake and be enabled to get by into adult life.

[maddiemom]

12. I should add that the education system is much more aware of this problem

and better at diagnosing and treating it than was the case in Trump's school days.