Trump Furious That Woodward's Book Is Written at Seventh-Grade Reading Level

[mia]

Donald J. Trump obtained an advance copy of Bob Woodward’s 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.”

At one point, Trump became so frustrated trying to decipher the word “imbecilic” that he hurled the book across the room....

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-furious-that-woodwards-book-is-written-at-seventh-grade-reading-level

[rurallib]

1. Way over his head apparently

[Moostache]

2. He does not know what imbecilic means?

You have got to be fucking kidding me...

Seriously, it is time to break up this aborted marriage of the "United" States and split off the inbred morons and knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who seem to be A-OK with Trump in general and all of his hideous features. Sweet fucking Christ crucified I do not want to call these people countrymen or share common cause with them or even see them prosper for the good of the nation as a whole. I want them gone. History. Darken my doorstep no more...

I grew up believing that to be in government positions actually required competence and at a minimum good intention...I was long ago disabused of that notion, but I still figured the minimum was more than a pair of check boxes of 1) can find ass with both hands? and 2) know how to chew with mouth closed? (optional)

[Hortensis]

4. Borowitz. But it IS a 5-syllable word, and we know

his difficulties with anything over a fourth-grade level.

This illustrates the severe problem Trump presents to satirists. Nothing is too imbecilic or ridiculous to be credible.

[H2O Man]

3. Recommended.

I bet it is a tad bit tense in the White House today.