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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN, Woodward: Trump said "I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters" on Twitter
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04/politics/bob-woodward-book-donald-trump-fear/index.htmlTwitter was a source of great consternation for national security leaders, who feared and warned Trump "Twitter could get us into a war."
Appalled by some of his more outrageous posts, Trump's aides tried to form a Twitter "committee" to vet the President's tweets, but they failed to stop their boss.
Priebus, who was blindsided when Trump announced his firing on Twitter, referred to the presidential bedroom as "the devil's workshop" and called the early morning hours and Sunday night a time of many news-breaking tweets "the witching hour."
Trump, however, saw himself as a Twitter wordsmith.
"It's a good thing," Trump said when Twitter expanded its character count to 280, "but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters."
Appalled by some of his more outrageous posts, Trump's aides tried to form a Twitter "committee" to vet the President's tweets, but they failed to stop their boss.
Priebus, who was blindsided when Trump announced his firing on Twitter, referred to the presidential bedroom as "the devil's workshop" and called the early morning hours and Sunday night a time of many news-breaking tweets "the witching hour."
Trump, however, saw himself as a Twitter wordsmith.
"It's a good thing," Trump said when Twitter expanded its character count to 280, "but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters."
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CNN, Woodward: Trump said "I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters" on Twitter (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Sep 2018
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)1. Betcha Trump never actually read anything by Hemingway
because Hemingway never wrote about him.
sl8
(13,720 posts)4. "The Old Man and the Pee"?
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)7. OMG.......thanks for the laugh
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)2. Must resist urge to make a shotgun remark.
lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)3. For Whom the Bell Trolls
It trolls for he.
Meadowoak
(5,545 posts)6. He means Ernest goes to camp.
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)9. Sure. Except Hemmingway knew how to spell and punctuate.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)10. I'm surprised that he knew
that Hemingway was an author
GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)11. Yes, just like Hemmingway--after he had three or four martinis.
Hemmingway did not have a good relationship with alcohol. The only time his writing resembled Spanky's would be when he was shit-faced drunk.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)12. He's the depressingly finite number of monkeys of Twitter.
He's the spilled bowl of alphabet soup of the Internets.