OK, hate to be the party pooper, but...

[GetRidOfThem]

... Agent Orange does know how to read. Whatch the Orange/Trudeau press conference.

I wish WE would stick to real facts, and leave the alternative facts universe to them alone...

Just a thought...

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Huh?

[LexVegas]

2. Jesus. nt

[JTFrog]

6. Anytime a post starts with "hate to...but", you know you're in for a ride, lol. nt

[LexVegas]

9. Is his name really Agent Orange? nt

[JTFrog]

12. Oh snap!

That's gonna leave a mark as bright as Agent Orange's spray tan lines!

[uponit7771]

44. +1, lol

[RandiFan1290]

3. Get some bad news today?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Lighten up, Francis

The "can he read?" comments are when people are joking.

[JTFrog]

5. Pfffff.

He has at best the reading and vocabulary skills of a first or second grader. Sad!

[lastlib]

15. that's one reason I say......

...he's a third-grade bully with a second-grade education.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. Agent Mike says hi !

[Iggo]

8. Next you'll be telling me he's not an orangutan made of cheesy poofs.

[GetRidOfThem]

37. OK, now I am serious!

Stop insulting Orangutans! Pleeze! They are part of the rich animal kingdom we love.

Agent Orange is not!

[NCTraveler]

10. Sorry about Flynn.

I believe you are correct. Twitler can read. He seems to read at about the third grade level.

[FSogol]

13. He probably needs reading glasses, but is too vain to wear them. n/t

[NCTraveler]

14. Very interesting thought.

There is a real aspect to that in society. I refused to wear glasses for a couple of years in elementary and middle school. The teasing was difficult. Not wearing them put me back a bit. I did wear them at home so didn't suffer too much.

[rzemanfl]

22. If he doesn't wear contacts and hasn't had Lasik he almost certainly does. n/t

[TrekLuver]

42. He does have reading glasses and yes he doesn't like to wear them. I saw him wear them in once

in one of his depositions. But there were reports that he avoids it at all cost.

[OKNancy]

11. I understand what you mean

although your post is kind of disjointed.
Yes, Trump can read. Speculation about this is way over the top and not based on fact.

More and more, I've been aggressively posting about exaggerated news by left biased websites. It's not really fake news, but it is sensationalized. It starts with click-bait headlines. Then when you read the article or better yet go to the original article in a mainstream publication you find the headline does not match.

[JustAnotherGen]

16. I have no idea what this is about

Context?

[truebluegreen]

34. There's a rumor circulating the DFT can't Fing read

or at the least not very well. Based on his avoidance of reading docs in a deposition, epic struggles with teleprompters, UUUUUGE vocabulary of only the best words, and signing of EOs without knowing what they say.

Vanity > lack of reading glasses could also explain most of it, I think, but surely that can't be the case with such a humble, modest and unassuming man.

[GetRidOfThem]

38. Context...

There was a serious post on the web site building the case that Agent Orange cannot read. That he is illiterate. The author of the post builds his or her case in a way that I almost fell for it.

That he refuses to read is one legitimate argument, that he cannot is fake news. He can read.

All I am saying is that in this day and era of BS and fake news coming from the highest sources, we should step above this and try to stay with the real facts. Because we are better than Agent Orange and that whole group.

And please, for the Humane Society's sake, stop insulting Orangutans! They can be very loving creatures!

[heaven05]

17. you're not the party pooper

boy-potus who would be king is trying to poop all over us. Where have you been...this potus is an idiot...presidents bannon and miller..now they can read...

[MineralMan]

18. Thank your for expressing your concern.

[Achilleaze]

19. Well, we know the republican Pee45 can Dodge the Draft, and

that he can dodge his civic duty to pay taxes like other Americans, and that he can dodge the truth. But - even though republican SUCKERS meekly believe anything he spews - the jury is still out on his alleged literacy.

[uppityperson]

20. Yes, to after him for his actions, his inability to do anything good, his dislike of or

inability to read is minor. His being a narcissist egotistical short tempered bully with access to inappropriate info is scary.

[lpbk2713]

21. Did you forget the "we are better than this" part?

It looks somewhat incomplete.

[treestar]

28. lol yeah that is usually included!

If not for humor, we cannot get through to 2020 or whenever!

[JHan]

40. Op does have a point but LOL for this reply lol....lol.

[yellowcanine]

23. Who says he doesn't?

Nice try at puffery but still a fail. Got any insights of Flynn Flam this morning?

[sarah FAILIN]

24. I never thought he couldn't read...

I say he is a poor reader
Notice how he ran his finger under the words. That is a poor reader tell.

[Brother Buzz]

25. I just read a double super secret background report prepared by Freud and Jung...

explaining that despite having modest reading and comprehension skill, the orange anus has genuine issues reading in public.

[stonecutter357]

26. is conrad a better name ?

3 Members of Trump's Campaign Have Now Resigned due to Russian Ties: Manafort, Page, Flynn. Combine that With the Dossier.

[treestar]

27. people are just kidding

I don't think anyone really thinks that.

[Caliman73]

29. He's not completely illiterate

The premise is that he has difficulty reading to the point that he does not comprehend a good deal of what is put in front of him AND that he does not care to improve his skills. People are not saying that he can't read at all, just that his extremely poor skills and the demands of the job on those skills are creating a problem for him, and as such, they create a problem for the nation.

It is a hypothesis that has some backing.

[underthematrix]

30. I tweet all the time TRUMP is illiterate

There's a video of an Aprentice staff who handles script reads clearly stating TRUMP can't read. There's video of Trump during a deposition saying who couldn't read a lease agreement because the print was too small and forgot his glasses.

There's pictures of TRUMP signing EO's which are small print without his glasses.

Trump did a news conference with PM Abe in which he had prepared remarks re: Korean missile incident and did NOT READ them. Instead, he made a bizarre 15 second comment about that Japan was our partner and we're 100% behind them.

Trump has a desk stacked with papers because he wants to give the impression he can read but in reality he can't.

Trump signed the EO putting Bannon on the NSC principles committee and later complained he was not fully briefed on the contents of the EO. In other words, no one read it to him.

I will continue to tweet he's illiterate.

[GetRidOfThem]

39. And I rest my case....

[underthematrix]

41. Yes I see that

[Laffy Kat]

31. Dyslexia. I've been saying it all along.

He has a learning disorder and won't own up to it.

[grantcart]

35. I agree he has some dyslexia, but that isn't a learning disorder

Rockfeller had terrible dyslexia but was a brilliant man.

Many people with dyslexia compensate in other ways by developing outstanding memory.

Frequently families think that the dyslexic child is stupid and it leaves emotional scars. it appears that Trump compensated with bluster and an absolute commitment to double down.

I, for one, would argue that an absolute commitment to double down is not the personality you want to have nuclear codes with.

[Laffy Kat]

36. By bad. I meant reading disorder. Sorry. nt

[Orsino]

32. At an eighth-grade level, at least.

Not necessarily at anything like a presidential level.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. Well, duh, of course he knows how to read.

He just doesn't know how to read goodly.

[TrekLuver]

43. It's a joke and you're killing it.

[eleny]

45. But he does love the uneducated, right?!