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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Furious That Woodward's Book Is Written at Seventh-Grade Reading Level
By Andy BorowitzSeptember 5, 2018
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Donald J. Trump obtained an advance copy of Bob Woodwards new book Monday evening and was furious to discover that Woodward had written it at a seventh-grade reading level, a White House aide has confirmed.
The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Trump was convinced that Woodward wrote the book for seventh-grade readers to make its assertions impossible for Trump to refute.
Trump was turning page after page, becoming increasingly angry at its gratuitous use of a seventh-grade vocabulary, the aide said. It was like it was written entirely in a secret code.
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Trump Furious That Woodward's Book Is Written at Seventh-Grade Reading Level (Original Post)
catbyte
Sep 2018
OP
Hey, if his name is mentioned five times on every page, and many pictures.... he might just try :-D
TheBlackAdder
Sep 2018
#4
Hah! Even Ben Hur and the Ten Commandments are at GL8--oversimplified and lacking nuance.
TheBlackAdder
Sep 2018
#3
Gothmog
(145,433 posts)1. I love good satire
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)2. Lol but as if Rump would try to read a book
That's just silly
TheBlackAdder
(28,210 posts)4. Hey, if his name is mentioned five times on every page, and many pictures.... he might just try :-D
John Fante
(3,479 posts)5. The book is about him so I can see him giving it a try.
TheBlackAdder
(28,210 posts)3. Hah! Even Ben Hur and the Ten Commandments are at GL8--oversimplified and lacking nuance.
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I bet that when he gets a copy, there will be a lot of lip movement as he struggles through it.
He might just buy the audio book and save himself the broken blood vessels in his head attempting its read.
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BHDem53
(1,061 posts)7. He'll have to wait for the pop up version.