White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made wild claims about one of President Donald Trump’s most notorious deficiencies as commander in chief.

“A piece of advice one of my predecessors, Dana Perino, gave to me before I took this job: She said, ‘You always want to be the most well-read person in the room,’” Leavitt said during a Turning Point USA event with Erika Kirk at George Washington University on Thursday. “And I try to be every day, but Donald Trump always is. That man does not miss a story.”

Leavitt: "You always want to be the most well-read person in the room, and I try to be every day. But Donald Trump always is." pic.twitter.com/HmaduJOjpX

Reports about Trump’s lack of desire to read have been widespread for years. During his first term, he reportedly did not read daily intelligence briefings, instead relying heavily on oral briefings, according to The Washington Post.

“After several months, Trump made clear he was not interested in reviewing a personal copy of the written intelligence report known as the PDB,” the Post reported in 2018.

A separate article from the Post in 2016, before Trump became president, detailed how he rarely read before he got into politics, and that was unlikely to change when he became president.

Trump told the Post at the time that he doesn’t have time to read, saying: “I never have. I’m always busy doing a lot. Now I’m more busy, I guess, than ever before.”

He also told Axios prior to his first inauguration: “I like bullets or I like as little as possible. I don’t need, you know, 200-page reports on something that can be handled on a page. That I can tell you.”

Critics on social media were quick to pan Leavitt’s claims of Trump being “well-read” as nonsense:

Karoline Leavitt has said many ridiculous things since she became press secretary, but "Donald Trump is always the most well-read person in the room" is unquestionably the most ridiculous. https://t.co/T9OrgyymVR

Jesus Christ.Their praise of him gets more ridiculous. Now they're all talking about him reading everything and having an encyclopedic knowledge of the Middle East.He'll be solving unsolved math problems by the end of his term. https://t.co/OI5XWWVlpR

Had I been drinking anything I would have spit it out from laughing… Leavitt is beyond hope https://t.co/5tZ8Khdr65

Btw in addition to the compulsive lying there is something really wrong with the way @presssec holds a microphone https://t.co/XW2xVaXUgS

This shameless ass-kissing is even more pathetic since Trump was quoted as saying, “I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.” https://t.co/WPcLQ2b6kx

Imagine paying $98K annual tuition for your kid to go to GW and this is the bullshit they’re hosting https://t.co/dLzCV5QGiV

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