Briefing material given to President Trump just before his call to Putin told

[applegrove]

him 'Do not congratulate Putin' in all caps. Then Trump did. WP report via CNN

Trump is dyslexic and dyslexics choke in proximity to a predator like Putin (kept dyslexics alive back in hunter and gatherer times).

[BigmanPigman]

1. He always does the exact opposite of his advisers.

I hope he testifies with Mueller. That is why he got a new attorney who is a lot like himself....maybe he will encourage him to do it and speed this train wreck up a bit.

[Siwsan]

2. You lost me on that dyslexic thing

I'm not sure how dyslexia would have affected non literate people. I'm dyslexic and it only affects my reading and, don't get me started on trying to do sums. When a word doesn't make sense, I re-read. I never know when I've transposed a number.

So color me curious.

[applegrove]

5. Back when we lived in hunter gatherer villages, looking at things from

all angles and from various assumptions and with empathy towards all, at times wrong, at times brilliant, made dyslexics the sussers out of psychopaths. Because they then were in a village with no laws, they would have gone blank in proximity to a psychopath they had figured out. So he would not figure them out. I did when I was 30. I can't help but go blank on the person when not in a safe environment to this day. The same mechanism that allows dyslexics to look at things with variable and funny assumptions allows them to go blank when in danger. Look at Trump on health care or the NRA in meetings vasilating from one reality to another on those issues. That is him looking at things with differing assumptions. Trump had the empathy part drummed out of him by his father and Roy Cohn and the bad actors he keeps company with. But he certainly looks at things with various assumptions.

[Siwsan]

8. Interesting. I might just be a weird dyslexic

And as far as trump* and how he has dealt with most things, while in the White House, my take is if President Obama had a hand in it, trump* feels the need to destroy it. It is his way of getting revenge for that whole Correspondence Dinner verbal frying he received from President Obama - made all the richer, considering what President Obama knew he'd be dealing with, once he left the dinner.

But interesting info on dyslexia, although the whole going blank thing has never happened to me. But then I have a hefty dollop of ambidexterity added to my dyslexic brain, so.......

[applegrove]

9. I am a bit ambidextrous. There is a whole lot out there on dyslexia.

Dyslexic advantage is a good book by Brock L. Eide M.D. M.A., Fernette F. Eide 

[applegrove]

10. Maybe you've never met a predator.

[Siwsan]

11. I was a female in the military.

Trust me - I've met predators.

[applegrove]

12. There you go. Maybe you had backup. Do you ever agree with things

you don't agree with because you are talking to someone and overempathizing with them. I do that because I have an auditory deficit.

[Siwsan]

13. At times - but then so did they

And I should add that I was born with a very strong Feisty gene, too.

[applegrove]

14. Feisty is the best attribute to have.

[TubbersUK]

3. I'm pretty sure it was willful

Trump also chose not to heed talking points from aides instructing him to condemn Putin about the recent poisoning of a former Russian spy in the United Kingdom with a powerful nerve agent, a case that both the British and U.S. governments have blamed on Moscow.

We know he's been reluctant to speak out directly on this.

[Thrill]

4. Hes scared of Putin

.

[raccoon]

6. Maybe if they told the Dotard to congratulate him, he wouldn't have.

Maybe if they told the Dotard to congratulate him, he wouldn't have.

Unless he did it just to be an a hole. Wouldn't surprise me

[oasis]

7. He congratulated Putin anyway. In "Sweet Smell of Success" Putin

would be Burt Lancaster's film character, J.J. Hunsecker, Trump would play Tony Curtis' groveling, flunky role, Sidney Falco.

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. I admit, my first instinct would be to offer at least perfunctory

congratulations -- one head of state to another, and all that. But if my aides told me -- in all caps, no less -- not to do it, even a dullard such as I would heed their advice.

Makes me wonder if Fatass also sent him a nice fruit basket, a box of chocolates, and an 8x10 of himself autographed "From your pal 'Donsky' -- XOXOXO".