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applegrove

(118,778 posts)
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 06:40 PM Jul 2016

Donald Trump doesn't want to soil his beautiful mind with reading, or knowledge

by Mark Sumner at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/18/1549292/-Donald-Trump-doesn-t-want-to-soil-his-beautiful-mind-with-reading-or-knowledge

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It's taken a while to understand just how Donald Trump could be the best at everything. How could he know more about ISIS than the generals, more about the economy than economists, and more about how he's always right than all those videos showing he was wrong?

The secret of Trump’s brilliance is simple. Really simple: Don't learn anything.

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 thought about reading a presidential biography, just so he would understand all about how other people did it wrong—but really, what's the point?

He said in a series of interviews that he does not need to read extensively because he reaches the right decisions “with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I [already] had, plus the words ‘common sense,’ because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability.”



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Donald Trump doesn't want to soil his beautiful mind with reading, or knowledge (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2016 OP
Using only primary information may have worked in the primaries and for politics applegrove Jul 2016 #1
That stuff is for losers! He's WhiteTara Jul 2016 #7
Trump doesn't need news... Else You Are Mad Jul 2016 #2
Con Man Don has deep seated issues to say the least. Wellstone ruled Jul 2016 #3
He's definitely dyslexic. They make great politicians because they can read a crowd, pull down applegrove Jul 2016 #4
Usually dyslexic persons Wellstone ruled Jul 2016 #5
Wellstone too was dyslexic. Made him electric and real. Donald uses his talents to push lies. His applegrove Jul 2016 #6

applegrove

(118,778 posts)
1. Using only primary information may have worked in the primaries and for politics
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 06:42 PM
Jul 2016

but foreign policy or constitutional matters or the economy do not work that way. He'll be spoonfed by the GOP on all those issues after realizing that he doesn't have enough information on these issues to go on his gut.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Con Man Don has deep seated issues to say the least.
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 06:51 PM
Jul 2016

Why does he not want to read? Something of a dysfunctional nature going on,watch when the Guy uses a teleprompter,does he suffer like many,with Dyslexia,or some other reading malady. Think so.

applegrove

(118,778 posts)
4. He's definitely dyslexic. They make great politicians because they can read a crowd, pull down
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 06:54 PM
Jul 2016

the fictions of their competitors and speak from the gut so they seem authentic (they don't rely on memorization because they are bad at that). GOP likes their Dyslexics dumb so they can use them like Palin, 'W', & his father. The Democrats like them smart like Kennedy, Johnson or Woodrow Wilson. All dyslexics. There is no relation between dyslexia and IQ. Many can read despite not retaining everything. Trump can read a teleprompter. But he's flat when he does. And when he speaks from the gut he is frightening and says stupid, vain things.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Usually dyslexic persons
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 07:19 PM
Jul 2016

rely on memorization of certain key things. But,Trump has used bluster and bulling through out his life,and when he does become cornered,subject change is his main tool. Did not know Kennedy was dyslexic.

Hillary will be able to unmask this Dufus with in seconds,and it ain't going to be pretty. Looking for this Guy to go Postal. Understand he is subject to out bursts.

applegrove

(118,778 posts)
6. Wellstone too was dyslexic. Made him electric and real. Donald uses his talents to push lies. His
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 07:23 PM
Jul 2016

sad choice. Because he's not just dyslexic, he's a con sales guy.

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