Trump Speaks At Fourth-Grade Level, Lowest Of Last 15 U.S. Presidents, New Analysis Finds

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Trump Speaks At Fourth-Grade Level, Lowest Of Last 15 U.S. Presidents, New Analysis Finds

President Donald Trump—who boasted over the weekend that his success in life was a result of “being, like, really smart”—communicates at the lowest grade level of the last 15 presidents, according to a new analysis of the speech patterns of presidents going back to Herbert Hoover.

The analysis assessed the first 30,000 words each president spoke in office, and ranked them on the Flesch-Kincaid grade level scale and more than two dozen other common tests analyzing English-language difficulty levels. Trump clocked in around mid-fourth grade, the worst since Harry Truman, who spoke at nearly a sixth-grade level.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-obama-774169

[Va Lefty]

1. Sub headline...Connects with Base

[spanone]

2. naw, fourth graders are far more intelligent that trump.

[moondust]

3. Not an interesting orator/statesman.

He's linguistically impoverished. He can't talk about anything in depth because he doesn't know anything in depth, and even if he did he wouldn't be able to verbalize it. I can't listen to his shallow drivel and usually mute him even in short news clips.

[samnsara]

4. because thats all the education his followers have..

[niyad]

5. that insults 4th graders.

[haele]

6. Which is odd, as back in the 1990's, he had the vocabulary of at least a high school senior.

And halfway decent grammar - at least when speaking and taking questions during interviews or on his book promotions. Had a rent mate who loved ET and the "lifestyles of the rich and famous" type talk shows, so I vaguely remember him being on in the background occasionally.

Haele

[Gothmog]

7. Great chart on POTUS educational levels

[kentuck]

8. It would probably be lower if he did not load up with adjectives?

Beautiful, incredible, great, terrific, etc....

[L. Coyote]

9. Wow, 4.6. I remember what that was like. I was smarter than Trump back then.

But hey, in my home town everyone was above average