He’s a regular “modern-day” Nobel laureate.
He’s a regular “modern-day” Nobel laureate.
President Trump is a 140-character Ernest Hemingway, ex-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski proposed after POTUS used the medium to sling vicious personal attacks against MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski.
“He’s the Ernest Hemingway of Twitter, ” Lewandowski said on Fox News’ “Hannity” Friday night, after Kimberly Guilfoyle had called the President “a verbal jiu jitsu artist” and “a slayer.”
“We’ ve said it many times. He’s taken down his opponents on Twitter many times. You can ask Little Marco or Lyin’ Ted or Crooked Hillary, we all know the names… or Low-Energy Jeb, ” he added. “When you oppose Donald Trump, beware of his 100 million social media followers.”
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Whether Lewandowski’s parallel referred to Hemingway’s signature brevity, his insults against rival William Faulkner or something else entirely remained unclear.
But the self-proclaimed billionaire and late literary giant have weighed in on many similar topics across their storied careers. Judge the likeness for yourself:
Hemingway: “When people talk listen completely. Most people never listen.”
Trump:
Hemingway: “You see it’s awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if it is any good you yourself know about how good it is — but if you say so yourself you feel like a s–t.”
Trump:
Hemingway: “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
Trump:
Hemingway: “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Trump:
Hemingway: “But you are so busy, and impermanent, and always moveing and tired and makeing decisions and sleep dead-tired sleep when you can get it with a division that is fighting that you really have no other life.”
Trump:
Hemingway: “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Trump:
