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..
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