Journalist Anderson Cooper criticized Donald Trump for comments about dyslexia that the U.S. president made to attack an opponent.
Journalist Anderson Cooper strongly criticized the comments Donald Trump made about dyslexia to attack California governor Gavin Newson.
The U.S. president mocked Newson, who was diagnosed with dyslexia at age 5 and has always spoken openly about how dealing with the condition shaped his life path.
While closing a cabinet meeting last week, Trump, 79, stated: “I don’t want a person with a mental disability to be my president,” referring to Newson, a potential candidate for the U.S. presidency.
During the program “Anderson Cooper 360”, the CNN host spoke about his own childhood diagnosis of dyslexia and strongly condemned Trump’s remarks.
“With everything happening because of the war in Iran, President Trump still found time today to insult millions of Americans, both adults and schoolchildren, who have had or have reading difficulties,” Cooper said. “To be clear, I am one of them. I had a mild form of dyslexia as a child.”
Cooper noted that the president often uses dyslexia to suggest that Newson is not capable of holding the office of president, and he was blunt in his criticism, saying that “the president shows his own ignorance by claiming that people with dyslexia are somehow stupid.”
“If the president actually read books or anything about the subject, he would know that,” the journalist added.
“There were many ways in which the president could have chosen to attack a political opponent,” he concluded. “Doing so by stigmatizing millions of children with learning difficulties seems to be the cruelest.”
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