Donald Trump is a man of contradictions. On the one hand he’ll tweet, “Wow, @CNN is really working hard to make me look as bad as possible. Very unprofessional,” but then he’ll work harder than any other person to mock and ridicule others to make them look as bad as possible. He’ll bristle if someone calls him names, but he’s the king of insults and name-calling. He states that he has the “best memory in the world,” but then he can’t recall David Duke, white supremacists, Serge Koveleski (a disabled reporter he mocked), and many other individuals and events. Now he can’t even recall John Miller, one of his most trusted associates and the chairman of the Board of Directors at the Donald J. Trump Center for Memory Modification and Retention.
Below left: The yearbook picture of John Miller, a trusted advisor to Donald Trump, who attended the Emmett Lee Dickinson School for Boys in Bethesda, MD. Below right: The Emmett Lee Dickinson School for Boys in Bethesda.
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Mr. Miller is a little dumbfounded since Trump can’t seem to recall who he is.
“I was Trump’s publicist for years,” said Miller, “and I helped him develop the Trump 11-step program for memory modification and retention”:
1. Review information immediately.
2. Repeat the information out loud.
3. Repeat the information even louder.
4. Scream the information (to the press, if possible).
5. Make up information if necessary.
6. Ridicule others if they accuse you of making up information.
7. Deny information that you don’t want to be true.
8. Ridicule others who call you out for denying what used to be true.
9. Make up names, dates and events if that helps with the recall of information.
10. Develop clever modifiers to help remember people’s names (like “crazy,” crooked,” “lyin,’” “goofy,” etc.).
11. Repeat as often as possible, "I have the best memory in the world."
Below: Donald Trump (on the right) introduces John Miller (on the left) at the 2016 conference on Memory Adaptation and Correction at the Donald J. Trump Center for Memory Modification and Retention.
Below left: The Donald J. Trump Center for Memory Modification and Retention. Below right: The Grand Lecture Hall at the center.
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John Miller recognized Trump's issues with faulty memories in the late 1980s, and he convinced Trump to open the Center for Memory Modification and Retention. The center is what gave Trump the idea to open Trump University.
Miller said he was inspired to approach Trump about opening the center because of his favorite poem by Emmett Lee Dickinson, "He flees from memory" (below on the left). Dickinson's poem also inspired his third cousin Emily to pen her poem "To flee from memory" (below on the right).
| By Emmett Lee Dickinson: He flees from memory Like he had Wings Man would he fly Transferred to truthier things Words of surprise Spewed from the glowering Man Of recreating Facts the best he can | By Emily Dickinson: To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise Would scan the cowering Van Of men escaping From the mind of man |
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