For one thing, it's clear that Trump is not a devotee of reading, whether it's newspapers, books or memos.
I don't even understand how a man who has a college degree can be like that, but whatever...
....And yet he incessantly tweets and bids us all to read his writing. Hell, the man has written a book.
Instead, he is most moved by what he sees and hears in a most fundamental sense. When Trump began receiving intelligence briefings in January, his aides asked the briefers to reduce the number of words in their daily briefing book and instead use more pictures and other graphics. Trump, the aides explained, is a "visual and auditory learner," according to the Washington Post. After Trump took office in January, his staff assessed President Barack Obama's contingency plans for Syria and trimmed them into small pieces, illustrated by photos, the Post said, so Trump could get a better grasp on what was going on in his own way and so he could best improve the situation.
I don't know that those penchants and preferences make him a retard, but it's certainly disconcerting. Much of what he must manage and decide about is among the most complex of issues, and it's his job to comprehensively understand those things before choosing a course of action about them that, in turn, commits all of us to whatever direction he charts. Any ship captain understands the importance of the concept from which that obligation flows. Not every complex idea can be boiled down to pictures without losing the nuanced aspects. Details matter because that's where "the devil" is.
Critics are hardly reassured by these tendencies, which strike them as puerile and superficial.
Forget the critics; they will to some extent rail regardless of what they learn about Trump and his ways and means. Plus, we/they are already well aware of the man's many shortcomings. It's his supporters -- adamant or incidental -- who should find the noted revelations disconcerting.