Unbeknownst to millions of MAGA voters, when Trump launched the birther movement, lying that Obama wasn’t a citizen because he was born in Kenya, it went undetected that he was suffering from a form of ‘racist illiteracy. ‘ This term refers to a lack of empathy or knowledge about racial issues, often leading to discriminatory beliefs or actions. How could it be possible that a graduate of the renowned Wharton School of Business School didn’t know that Hawaii was America’s 50th state? This lie constituted the beginning of Trump’s 2016 presidential election racist illiteracy epidemic.