2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonald Trump doesn’t read much. Being president probably wouldn’t change that.
He sounds just like G DUHbya.
NEW YORK As he has prepared to be named the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump has not read any biographies of presidents. He said he would like to someday.
He has no time to read, he said: I never have. Im always busy doing a lot. Now Im more busy, I guess, than ever before.
Trumps desk is piled high with magazines, nearly all of them with himself on their covers, and each morning, he reviews a pile of printouts of news articles about himself that his secretary delivers to his desk. But there are no shelves of books in his office, no computer on his desk.
Presidents have different ways of preparing to make decisions. Some read deeply, some prefer to review short memos that condense difficult issues into bite-size summaries, ideally with check-boxes at the bottom of the page. But Trump, poised to become the first major-party presidential nominee since Dwight Eisenhower who had not previously held elected office, appears to have an unusually light appetite for reading.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-doesnt-read-much-being-president-probably-wouldnt-change-that/2016/07/17/d2ddf2bc-4932-11e6-90a8-fb84201e0645_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,856 posts)Skinner
(63,645 posts)Not surprising.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)so pathologically shallow and self-focused, and absolutely devoid of intellectual curiosity. Anyway, it'd be far, far too late to build the 50 years and more he should have accumulated in his sack of knowledge.
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)He has that in common with most Republican legislators, though, it seems.