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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,201 posts)
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 01:21 PM Jul 2016

Donald 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. I’m always busy doing a lot. Now I’m more busy, I guess, than ever before.”

Trump’s 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

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Donald Trump doesn’t read much. Being president probably wouldn’t change that. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2016 OP
Even W was more literate than this asshole. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2016 #1
"News articles about himself" Skinner Jul 2016 #2
Anything else would be surprising in someone Hortensis Jul 2016 #4
Clearly, he has neither read nor understood the Constitution. MineralMan Jul 2016 #3

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Anything else would be surprising in someone
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 01:53 PM
Jul 2016

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)
3. Clearly, he has neither read nor understood the Constitution.
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 01:46 PM
Jul 2016

He has that in common with most Republican legislators, though, it seems.

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