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Old 12-14-2019, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Haiku
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President Trump has always done an excellent job reading the teleprompter, and that is despite his preference for ad-lib.
He's a flawless reader, so no reason to doubt that he'd read those books.
Confefe.
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Old 12-14-2019, 01:28 PM
 
Location: Eureka CA
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Who are you kidding? Trump cant /won't read and Bannon is a nut. I agree he'd be an interesting dinner guest but his greasy hair would kill my appetite.
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Old 12-14-2019, 02:51 PM
 
Location: Clyde Hill, WA
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I find Bannon to be interesting. He grew up as kind of a hippie and left-wing nut. After college he enlisted in the Navy. After the Navy, he got a Harvard MBA, and then went to work at Goldman Sachs. Then on to work in Hollywood, and finally as Trump's strategist. He still seems to consider himself a 'Truman/JFK' Democrat.

His real love seems to be history and philosophy. There's a list of his top books in Bannon: Always the Rebel by Keith Coffler.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...ng-list-214745


It's all stuff like Thucydides and the like. There is also a bizarre conspiracy/free-
masonry type book called 'The Fourth Turning' in there.

Naturally a thread like this is going to provoke a lot of projective TDS responses. Probably best to roll with the punches and regard it as entertainment.
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Old 12-14-2019, 07:22 PM
 
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Bannon is a nut. I agree he'd be an interesting dinner guest but his greasy hair would kill my appetite.
Does Bannon sound like a nut in this interview?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlRJeGUySIk&t=36s
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Old 12-14-2019, 07:35 PM
 
Location: In The Thin Air
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Trump has the attention span of a gnat which is why Twitter works for him. I bet he paid a lot of money for people to write his papers in college because he doesn't read anything through. There is one exception when it comes to reading books. He probably has read "Art of the Deal" a few times. That is what a narcissistic dotard does.

The world is laughing at us and some of you on the right just don't care.
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Old 12-15-2019, 06:18 AM
 
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I can't listen live to Bannon’s War Room Impeachment broadcast (everyday 9am ET) so catch up on youtube. This show will be on daily till Trump is acquitted by the Senate so watch it while you can. Very smart discussions of politics with great guests - writers, politicians, activists.

They played a very funny clip of the President at his Hershey rally making fun of Fauxcahontas. When Bannon, a voracious reader, heard it he commented, “All of that has subtext. He’s Jungian in knowing archetypes and how to get to subtext. One of his favorite books is Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung.” I was surprised.

Some of Trump’s favorite books:

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Essays and Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
On China by Henry Kissinger
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China by Jianying Zha
One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China by James McGregor

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The first five have been on my reading list since college. But I tend to get distracted... Only got around to reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand last month.
I don't believe that he read any of them.
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Old 12-15-2019, 06:32 AM
 
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I don't believe that he read any of them.
The hubris of the left will always be its downfall.
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Old 12-15-2019, 04:51 PM
 
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The world is laughing at us and some of you on the right just don't care.
You're right about that. Just heard a man on War Room Impeachment who is at the big annual conference of diplomats in Qatar who said they are laughing at our "impeachment light" sham. They want America to stop the nonsense and get back to business.
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Old 12-15-2019, 05:00 PM
 
Location: Houston
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The hubris of the left will always be its downfall.
The left just about always wins in the end up to the point where they try to own the means of production.
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Old 12-15-2019, 05:15 PM
 
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President Trump has always done an excellent job reading the teleprompter, and that is despite his preference for ad-lib.
He's a flawless reader, so no reason to doubt that he'd read those books.
He has to memorize it. Watch him omit words and then make a slick cover up. At least he knows when it happens and is quick to adjust.

Trump is dyslexic. He was undiagnosed and not remediated because when he was a kid nobody knew what it was. But every teacher in the country knew there was a class clown in every classrooms. That's how they compensated. Not wanting to be the dumb kid, many dyslexics found ways to compensate.

Many were the best on the class with numbers. Many cracked the code by middle or high school.school. POTUS Trump was sent off the military school because his parents couldn't handle him.

I always knew something was weird about DH. All through college. Reading was painful for him. But, he won the award for being the best engineering student in the whole university.

Then on a cross country car trip, I saw the same thing in his mom. Then in our son. By the time a grandkid came along, they knew what it was and how to remedy it.

Donal J. Trump is a dyslexic ADHD. If you live with, it can be spotted a mile away. Rght down to the no need for sleep, always moving part.
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