Why was Trump talking about sharks at a campaign event?

jordanlund@lemmy.worldmod to politics @lemmy.world – 223 points –
Why was Trump talking about sharks at a campaign event?
usatoday.com

"It must be because of M.I.T., my relationship with M.I.T., very smart. I say, 'What would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there?" Trump said. "By the way, lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice that?"

In land locked NEVADA.

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Whether it's true or not there's a lot of supposition that he is afflicted with dyslexia and most likely hyperactive disorder since childhood and without diagnostic, let alone treatment he was left unable to acquire information from reading, most likely making him hate written text and spending his whole life "making shit up" to compensate for his lack of knowledge, borderline illiterateness and inability to focus long enough to retain information.

True or not, it's coherent with his behaviour.

borderline illiterateness

I'm sorry. But I have to. I'm sure you're a very smart person, and you speak well, and that this is likely just a tiny little oversight in an otherwise fine and literate mind.

But the irony of not knowing that it's actually "illiteracy" and not "illiterateness" is just a little too funny not to at least poke a bit of fun at.

I think a literate person would have checked a dictionary before complaining ;)

And technically the proper word to describe trump would be aliterate not illiterate.