It was a terrible day, the Ides of March 2020, when the Donald realized three things.

First, the pandemic is real and history changing. 

Second, the United States could lead the world with its resources in solving the challenge.

Third, it would probably mean the Nobel Prize from Donald if he could pull it off.

Fourth, Donald realized he didn’t have what it took to manage the challenge.

It would have been a game changer.  Rats!

Do you remember in January when,,,,

"U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he aborted a military strike to retaliate for Iran’s downing of an unmanned U.S. drone because it could have killed 150 people, and signaled he was open to talks with Tehran."

So the president can value lives. What was the project death count for forcing meat packing plants to open. There must have been a number so he could decide to force the opening or not. What was the number that was small enough for the president to use his power to make them go back to work.

I have a recollection of my grade school days.  Probably around second and third grade when the sister would have us stand up next to our desk and read. I was decent, liked reading, and I had no problem demonstrating my reading.

On the other hand, I recall well a couple of classmates that weren’t really strong in the reading thing. They really didn’t like the whole idea and wished they were asked a science question, or anything but stand up and read. These students would read in a slow monotone as they figured out the words. I had no problem with the kids and just hoped they would move it along.

This is exactly the feeling I get when President Trump reads a speech. Boring. I think that he must have one or more of the popular learning disabilities of our day. Listening to the president read surely explains why he doesn’t’ read his morning briefing. There are some really hard words in those briefings.
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Could we get the presidential debates staged as a reading comprehension contest?

Can you imaging Washington staff personnel thinking..

"OMG, I can't stand it much longer.  I know things that are so earth shaking that I can't sleep for fear that I might blurt out some secret in my sleep."

Who is this talking?

The staff of the Mueller investigation?  Sure.

The staff at the White House?  Even more.

The poor worker bees in both camps share this dilemma.  The Mueller staff takes great pride in keeping the secrets as hard as it may be.  The White House staff must go from fear of loosing their jobs to overwhelming shame for keeping the secrets.

It's a complicated world.  OMG.

I had always thought that our president could be considered stupid, or as at least one in the cabinet says, a moron.  But both of these terms are derogatory digs when there is clinical terms that are clearly the case.

Functional illiteracy is reading and writing skills that are inadequate "to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level". Functional illiteracy is contrasted with illiteracy in the strict sense, meaning the inability to read or write simple sentences in any language.   (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy ​)

The fulfillment of this definition has been demonstrated repeated in our President's tweets and his well documented inability to read documents larger than a couple of pages such as the Presidential Daily Briefing, a document essential to the president's "employment tasks".

Attention Disability (ADD or newer ADHD) under any name describes our president my my opinion when he hears something like,  "This report does not address collusion", and understands "There was no collusion".  The president filters and modifies all words and phrases to reflect favorably on him no matter the modifications required to make that so. And when it is all said and one, he believes the modified version is true. That's the disorder.

Another strange example might be the fact that the president feels that when the FBI badly botched warning information regarding the Florida shooter Cruz was because the FBI was distracted by the Russian Investigation. Apparently the president believes that all of the 35,000 employees of the FBI are focused on him.  That is self centered foolishness.

I believe that not only do we have to get bipartisan action in congress, it must be veto proof so that the president is a non-factor..