Trump asked for his daily briefings to include less words, more pictures

[DesertRat]

Link to tweet

[tanyev]

1. That's why Fox News is so effective on him.

[elleng]

2. His 'team' made the request,

it doesn't appear that he himself did so.

[George II]

15. Who is in charge of "the team" and who hired them?

[NurseJackie]

20. Ugh! That type of hair-splitting only distracts...

Ugh! That type of hair-splitting only distracts from the fact that Trump isn't a strong reader, and that he needs "picture books" and small words to help him to understand (partially?) what's going on in the nation and the world.

Why would anyone want to bury the headline of Trump's incompetence by honing in on some meaningless "technicality" like who actually gave the instructions. On this particular matter, minutiae of who ordered what and when is a bit irrelevant isn't it?

Who CARES who gave the order? (This isn't a congressional hearing.) The fact that he's too dumb to comprehend without the equivalent of a large print Illustrated Children's Reader is ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING!!

[TexasTowelie]

3. He will also want crayons to be included

for the briefings.

[luvMIdog]

4. why be mean? Just give the guy his pop up books :P

[George II]

16. I hear he's an avid coffee table book reader, especially the pop up kind.

[NCjack]

5. The evidence rolls in. Trump is a functioning illiterate.

Problem for us, bigly. SAD

[Hortensis]

19. Maybe, maybe not, depending on how functionally literate's

defined. By my own fairly tough definition -- the ability of citizens to read newspapers and journals easily enough to not be dissuaded from reading them, he may be.

Rump might be semiliterate by my definition, but its cause and his bigger problem may well be because of what a number of people have described as a serious attention deficit problem. Just imagine him trying to plow through just the first page of a, say, The Atlantic article. Much less the kind of stuff presidents need to absorb.

Btw, last I read (no expert here), the idea of "auditory," "kinesthetic," etc. learners, as opposed to visual, is at very least overstated. We're all more equally visual learners than the faddish notions have pushed. I do know some people I used to "memo" would rather reliably corner me in a hallway to discuss what they said face to face, but scientists say it's for other reasons. In other words, baloney for this excuse.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Picture1k words.

Now we know. Or does Donnie need Comic Books?

[struggle4progress]

7. Illustrated policy briefing

Murkin



Mezkins



More Muzlin terrorism



Patridiots on parade



Manitobans sneaking into our country!



Bigly beautiful border wall



Our skillet and curtiferous staff

[flying rabbit]

9. +1 nt

[GoCubsGo]

11. I guess that last photo was taken before Barron was born?

[stuffmatters]

8. And only good "words" (news) not the "bad/ fake" stuff.

[GoCubsGo]

10. I was expecting a link to "The Onion."

Sad.

[DesertRat]

12. I can't tell the difference between the Onion and Borowitz reports

and real stories anymore.

[Buns_of_Fire]

13. I know *I* feel more secure now...

[DesertRat]

14. Haha! Perfect

[betsuni]

17. Radical moose lambs. Bad!

[smirkymonkey]

18. So, this isn't the Onion?

This is serious? What a fucking idiot!

[Rhiannon12866]

21. I thought this must be The Onion...