Trump Is Too Good at Being President to Waste Time Reading
One of the real Trump’s most distressing behaviors is his anti-science attitude, seen in his espousal of anti-vaccination ideas and his related promotion of conspiracy theories.
Even if you want to be charitable and suggest he does not personally believe these ideologies of mistrust, his readiness to deploy them in his public communication is concerning. Science and critical thinking have enough trouble gaining currency in the broad American conversation; having the president undermine trust in science and evidence just makes it harder to manage our Enlightenment-based republic.
The real Trump does, however, use science as a way to bolster his appearance of strength: he likes NASA, for example. And that is the attitude he takes in this comic. He makes a vague attribution to something official that supports his claim that he is just too awesome, but of course he hasn’t read it! (Vague attribution is also a hallmark of Trump’s communication style.)
