This explains why his cult followers can relate to him so easily.
Mr Trump scores the lowest of any of the past 15 presidents
Donald Trump may call himself a genius on Twitter, but his spoken statements say otherwise.
An analysis of the President's first 30,000 words uttered in office found Mr Trump speaks at a third- to seventh-grade reading level ? lower than any other President since 1929. Mr Trump?s vocabulary and grammatical structure is ?significantly more simple, and less diverse? than any President since Herbert Hoover, the analysis found.
The comparison is based on interviews, speeches and press conferences for every president dating back to 1929, compiled by online database Factba.se. Analysts at Factba.se studied the ?off-script? remarks of all 15 men ? essentially, everything but their prepared speeches ? to compare and contrast their speaking skills.
Analysts ran the records through eight different tests for vocabulary complexity, diversity, and comprehension level. In every single test, Mr Trump scored the lowest.
Mr Trump averaged significantly fewer syllables per word than the last 14 Presidents, and used significantly fewer unique words. The gaps appeared when comparing all available remarks, and when comparing only the first 30,000 words of each presidency. Social media posts were excluded from the data.
?Compared to the 14 presidents who preceded him, by every measure, [Mr Trump?s] use of words when off script are significantly less diverse, and simpler, than all presidents who preceded him back to Herbert Hoover,? wrote Factba.se CEO Bill Frischling.
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