This wouldn't pass as a grade schooler's Book Report. pic.twitter.com/mNOk52lWHy
— Randy Prine (@randyprine) December 31, 2016
Back last October, when we could still joke about it, Samantha Bee ‘mischievously’ suggested that Donald Trump might not actually be able to read. In all seriousness, he may just never have been able to read easily. As someone who’s both (mildly) dyslexic and ADHD, I can understand a skittishness about committing to labor through weighty blocks of ‘serious’ text — and Trump’s scholastic history, his spotty attention and apparently unprovoked rages, combined with his perennial insistence that he is so a smart person, are classic signs of an undiagnosed (unadmitted) learning disability.
Of course, someone with such problems isn’t going to find literary fluency any easier as they move into their senior years. Perhaps a (growing) incomprehension of the written word in bursts larger than 140 characters might explain Trump’s weird understanding of ‘the cyber’?:
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned whether critical computer networks can ever be protected from intruders, alarming cybersecurity experts who say his comments could upend more than a decade of national cybersecurity policy and put both government and private data at risk.
Asked late Saturday about Russian hacking allegations and his cybersecurity plans, Trump told reporters that “no computer is safe” and that, for intelligence officials, “hacking is a very hard thing to prove.”
“You want something to really go without detection, write it out and have it sent by courier,” he said as he entered a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort.
“I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly,” Trump said earlier last week. He tweets prolifically but says he rarely uses any other communications technology more advanced than the telephone. “The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what’s going on. We have speed, we have a lot of other things, but I’m not sure you have the kind of security that you need.”…
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Apart from fruitless speculation on the scope of the upcoming disaster, what’s on the agenda as we stutter-start another (holiday-shortened) week?
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Happy New Year to all, including all the future presidents who 54% of voters rejected, and have record-low approval ratings. Love!
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 31, 2016
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