We all remember George W Bush. NOT "intellectually curious," NOT "an avid reader." Short attention span. Didn't read things like that "Bin Laden Determined to strike in the U.S." security briefing.
Each day, his chief of staff, Andy Card, burned a DVD for him from the day's Fox "News" broadcasts.
That's how and where he got his "news."
Didn't read a paper, didn't watch other news sources. Watched his "Fox highlights reel" from Andy.
Trump's worse. He demands pictures and graphs and as few words as possible and that was in his FIRST term. I've GOT to assume that's only gotten worse.
And he has a "slam the door shut" mind when it comes to the feelings or needs of others.
He went on National TV and YELLED AT AMERICA for not "appreciating him" enough, for "buying into the Democrat Affordability Hoax," just like he called COVID the "new Democrat hoax," saying the cases were limited to a couple of sick people who came here on a plane from Hong Kong, and that after Easter, when the weather warmed up, it would all magically disappear.
Except what happened next was that 400,000 people died of COVID on his watch.
It's not so much that he "doesn't know." It's that he doesn't CARE, which means he doesn't WANT to know. He hears it, because he is obsessive in an OCD kind of way of listening to the daily news to catch ANY MENTION OF HIMSELF. So that means he hears all the other news items too, and dismisses the ones that don't stroke his ego and fail to adhere to the fictional, fantasy land image he's crafted of himself.
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