Trump asked to read kids' book but just points at pictures

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Donald Trump appeared as the “special reader” on the latest installment of “Storytime with the Second Lady” only to go wildly off script.

Sitting in the now-heavily-gilded Oval Office, Usha Vance told her target audience of grade-school-aged children, “When we read, we grow.”

She then asked Trump what he reads for fun, and the 80-year-old president claimed he reads mostly newspapers, and mainly about one topic.

“I usually read stories about myself,” he said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-asked-to-read-kids-book-but-just-points-at-pictures/ar-AA279iHG

[Grins]

1. Of course he does.... NM

[Deuxcents]

2. I actually looked to see if this was The Onion! But it's for real and why would you say that to kids?

[bamagal62]

9. I did exactly the same!!!

I’ve been doing that a lot lately.

[young_at_heart]

3. This is "telling"!

“I usually read stories about myself,” How many people would even think to say such an ego-driven thing??

[chicoescuela]

4. Just one fucking idiot would say that

[Brother Buzz]

5. The marmalade shartcannon reads everything about himself. Everything.

And he had a history of underlining or circling his name in all the articles and magazine spreads conspicuously displayed in his Trump Tower office.

Telling, indeed!

[PatSeg]

7. One of the few times he wasn't lying

[JoseBalow]

11. He was lying. He never reads anything except for teleprompters

He's practically illiterate.

[Wiz Imp]

16. That is correct. He reads at no more than a 6th grade level.

That's why his speeches are at a 6th grade level or lower.

[PatSeg]

20. Probably true for the most part,

but if he knows that a newspaper article is about HIM, he's been known to go out of his way to read it. He did this a lot during his business years; often he would mark such articles with a marker and pass them on to other people.

Now that he is president, he probably passes that responsibility on to others. Plus his vanity does not allow him to appear before others wearing reading glasses.

[AZ8theist]

23. That's why he has a personal fluffer by his side 24x7

He has a young blonde with daddy issues following him around, constantly printing out only good press about him on a portable printer she carries. She's called the "human printer".

Her only qualifications are she looks good on TV, and she ADORES him, to the point of infatuation. She'd even send him sickening "love" notes, according to a new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan:
https://people.com/trump-aide-natalie-harp-private-notes-12005939?__cf_chl_f_tk=i1PwdCJ9o20w0QhsmDUJ8wXRxiheKQQvID.k_2rnN.I-1783118158-1.0.1.1-Iay3DaxUc7Pjt5XWANtIaUBfN.50IRxDcEow2FHgATI

Natalie Harp:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret-of-trumps-emotional-bond-with-infatuated-blonde-natalie-harp-34-revealed/

[PatSeg]

24. Yes, she's totally bizarre

It is hard to understand especially being he's so repulsive in every regard.

[AZ8theist]

25. I would say the same thing about EVERY Doturd supporter, but that's just me......

[PatSeg]

26. Oh, I'm quite sure it ISN'T just you!

[dave99]

10. The Inquirer and other store front papers to look at its name

its been doing so since 1977

[mwmisses4289]

12. He has said that for years when asked what he "reads".

[Wiz Imp]

15. Malignant narcissists

[jmowreader]

6. And he only reads stories about himself that his handlers choose for him

The ones that start out "we would start out this story with 'you won't believe what that fucking idiot did this time' but since we're talking about Trump you probably will" aren't shown to him.

[Martin68]

8. He can't even read a children's book, not to mention a national security update.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Pathetic loser.

[SamuelAdams]

14. Even Bush could read a children's book.

[Conjuay]

17. Even if he did get a little distracted.

N/t

[Karasu]

21. I was just about to say this. The devolution of the GQP on full display.

[Wiz Imp]

18. He said: "When I was growing up we had a book called 'Run, Spot, Run.' That was the title of the book"

That, of course, is wrong. There was no book called "Run, Spot, Run". That was a passage that appeared in the "Dick and Jane Readers". Yet again, Trump illustrating he has no idea what he is talking about.

Books published in the series
Grade 1 – Before We Read, We Look and See, We Work and Play, We Come and Go, Guess Who, Fun with Dick and Jane, Go, Go, Go, and Our New Friends
Grade 2 – Friends and Neighbors and More Friends and Neighbors
Grade 3 – Streets and Roads, More Streets and Roads, Roads to Follow, and More Roads to Follow
Transitional 3/4 – Just Imagine
Grade 4 – Times and Places
Grade 5 – Days and Deeds
Grade 6 – People and Progress
Grade 7 – Paths and Pathfinders; Parades
Grade 8 – Wonders and Workers; Panoramas
Grade 9 – Helpful in Ways
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_and_Jane

[MineralMan]

27. They used that series of books in my first grade class in 1951.

The teacher quickly noticed that I was already a reader, so gave me other books to read at the back of the classroom. I didn't have to read the Dick and Jane books in class. I heard them all, though.

[Joinfortmill]

19. What a sick fuck

[LilElf70]

22. "I usually read stories about myself"

What else would you expect from a corrupt extreme narcissist.