First of all, understand that I am not being sarcastic. The topic is the way our president so often lies in so many ways, and then gets so mad at anyone who gets upset at his lies, or who has the nerve to think that he has lied in the first place.
I haven’t been able to find anything about how he performed in K-12 schooling, other than he attended the Kew-Forest School in Queens until, at the age of 13, due to behavior problems, he had to leave that school and was enrolled in the New York Military Academy, where he finished eighth grade and high school.
We know that he attended at least two universities, but don’t know exactly how he performed at either one.
One source wrote, “It’s hard to dig into the details of Trump’s academic performance at the academy. After boasting of his intelligence, Trump had his lawyers and legal team bar his former schools from releasing his academic results.”
We know that he inherited his father’s wealth which benefitted and protected him in many ways. We know that he founded a college that has since been forced to close down because of bad practices. And we know that as a businessman he has used bankruptcy several times.
I spent my working life as a teacher and public school administrator, so have seen all kinds of misbehavior. My initial assessment of our president was that he is a compulsive liar. But I now have a different opinion, which is a bit more complex, and a psychologist might think I am nuts.
But this is what I have come to believe.
I think that from birth he has had some kind of mental condition that allows him to think that he is a genius whose ideas and thoughts just come to him without a lot of effort on his part, a prophet of sorts.
So when he appears to be lying to us, he actually is just saying what the genius inside him is telling him to say. In other words, he simply doesn’t understand that he doesn’t understand.
So we shouldn’t get mad at him when he says dumb stuff. Our challenge, the people’s challenge, now is to decide whether we want our country to continue to be led by a person with such a condition.
Fred Ash, Sandy