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“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.”
Professor William T. Kelley, who taught marketing at the Wharton School of Business and Finance when the orange one was a student there (source)
He also doesn't read. Ever. The only book he is known to possess (a gift) is one with speeches by Hitler. He probably hasn't even read that one. He had also real trouble reading the teleprompter during the campaign trail and seemingly ignored it most of the time.
Yes, I read that too. Not the president the US needed, as he is simply unsuitable for this office due to his lack of education alone, but apparently the one the country deserves, as he was elected despite everything everyone can and should know about him.
Over half of US citizens can't read over a sixth grade level. So he really does represent a majority of US Americans in that regard.
Yeah, there’s a LOT of evidence that Trump is functionally illiterate. He just scrapes by with telling people he doesn’t have time to read, or having people read things for him.
The guy tweets constantly, with recognizable characteristics such as random capitalization that I don't think you can do with speech-to-text. He's a dope for sure, but I'm sure he can read. Maybe he has bad eyesight and too vain for glasses.
That’s why I said he’s functionally illiterate. You can read and write at a basic level and still be considered illiterate if it’s not enough for what society would expect. Literacy is a spectrum; Someone who reads at a first grade level may be able to read a dinner menu, but probably won’t be able to read the newspaper. But as long as they’re not put in a situation where they’ll need to read in front of others, they can scrape by with just that basic level of literacy.
Trump’s tweets are often only at a first or second grade level of writing. His word choice draws from a surprisingly small dictionary, and he typically avoids words that are more than two syllables long. He also continuously disregards even the most basic punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar rules.
Back before reading was really commonplace people could still read shop signs and things, but they couldn't really spell and anything more complicated than Chicken sold for $0.30 was probably beyond them, but that's all the average person needed.
How someone can be functionally illiterate when they were born in the mid 20th century is beyond me.