Trump Has 4th Grade Vocabulary, Lowest Of Last 15 Presidents

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Trump says he's 'like, really smart,' but he communicates at the lowest grade level of the last 15 presidents. The analysis assessed the first 30,000 words each president spoke in office, and ranked them on the Flesch-Kincaid grade level scale and more than two dozen other common tests analyzing English-language difficulty levels. Trump clocked in around mid-fourth grade, the worst since Harry Truman, who spoke at nearly a sixth-grade level. At the top of the list were Hoover and Jimmy Carter, who were basically at an 11th-grade level, and President Barack Obama, in third place with a high ninth-grade level of communicating with the American people. (Surprised? If you graduated form high school, probably not.)

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