Who wrote the "Met with Fire and Fury" line

[edhopper]

for trump.

The way he repeated it, it was obviously a written line for him.

He just doesn't have that lyricism.

I think Bannon or Kelly. If Kelly, we are worse off than I thought.

[monmouth4]

1. I'm going with Bannon...n/t

[hedda_foil]

24. I'm betting it's Miller.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Watch the video of his statement yesterday. His eyes kept returning downward,

reading his script.

[edhopper]

3. Yep

it could have been Gorka. It does sound like something a Nazi would write.

[shraby]

16. I noticed that too. He was reading the words which means someone wrote

them for him so he could get it right.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. He kinda stumbled the 2nd time he used the phrase

and that's when he glanced down to check the words.

Miller writes a lot of stuff for him, Bannon/gorka push for the "blow everybody up all the time"
tuff testosterone ideas.

[Initech]

4. I don't know, but I can't wait for the sequel 2 Fiery 2 Furious.

And then the third installment - The Fiery And The Furious: Tokyo Drift.

[edhopper]

15. ROFL

[leftstreet]

26. LOL

[lunasun]

5. Smells like Bannon's crap

[Yavin4]

6. Someone who was watching Game of Thrones n/t

[WhiteTara]

7. Sounds like a line from a bad novel

or grade b movie.

[longship]

8. No! Stephen Miller!

That guy! Quint talked about him in Jaws.

He's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes.

Quint was talking precisely about the type of person that is Stephen Miller.

"But we delivered the bomb." Who knows where that will lead?

[SweetieD]

9. Sounds like Miller.

[Siwsan]

10. Perhaps Stephen Miller

Hopefully not Kelly.

[samnsara]

11. barron...in crayon.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. Quentin Tarantino, of course.

Although I would have mixed in a little more Samuel L. Jackson...

[saidsimplesimon]

28. Wow Buns

Samuel Jackson delivers "righteous retribution". Who knew Tarantino was this brilliant? (big grin here)

[OnDoutside]

13. It sounds biblical....Pence ?

[bluepen]

14. I'm guessing Miller.

[Johnny2X2X]

18. Game of Thrones

He watched Game of Thrones, Drogon laid waste to the Lanister Army with Fire and Fury.

Honestly, this is 99% likely where he got it from.

[edhopper]

19. I think GoT

is too complicated for him to watch.

And he doesn't have the language skills for this type of phrase.

Maybe whoever wrote it watches GoT.

[anneboleyn]

38. Miller writes all of his speeches. And he could definitely be a GoT fan. I am too and I noticed the

line immediately - it is "Fire and Blood" in .GoT as it relates to one character and her dragons. In the middle of Trump's speech is sounded totally bizarre - "fire" and "fury" - wth does that even mean?! WTH is Trump claiming that he's going to do?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. Daneyrs Targaryean. nt

[MrsCoffee]

25. Dracarys!

[dembotoz]

21. Truman after bomb dropped on japan

Sort a surrender now cause we got more sort of thing

[bdamomma]

22. going with Bannon on this one

he is all for deteriorating the country from within to reach his sick goals.

[Atman]

23. If It was in Trump's own words...

...it would have been more like;

"Crooked Hillary would have done nothing to keep us safe, I can tell you that. If Fat Kimmy thinks he can do rockets, we'll show him whose the most tremendous power, a super power. A furious power. We'll say, 'missiles, you're fired!' It will be the greatest thing the world has ever seen, except my huuuge electoral college win over Crooked Hillary. I can tell you that."

[still_one]

27. Faulkner, Shakespeare......... Nope that was "sound and fury". Game of Thrones?

because Fire and Blood was already taken by Daenerys Targaryen

or

Skillet "Fire and Fury"

[cyclonefence]

29. It's from the NYT

writing about the tomahawk missiles:

. Nothing drowns out scandal like the fire and fury of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/opinion/the-riddle-of-trumps-syria-attack.html?_r=0

When he repeated the line but added "power," he prefaced his addition with "frankly," which is a verbal tell that he is straying from the printed message.

[maryellen99]

30. Gorka...

He was on Fox this morning and called us a "hyper power". NOBODY is going to stop Trump from using nukes.

[johnp3907]

31. Wasn't that a Judas Priest album?

Or Iron Maiden maybe?

[gratuitous]

32. I was thinking a WWE writer

It sure sounds like pro rasslin' and the bombast that precedes the next spectacle like Wrestlemania. If Trump says "The time for talkin' is done," we'll know pretty much for sure.

[spinbaby]

33. It was not just the phrasing that was odd

His body language was odd. He was crossing his arms almost as if he was hugging himself. And now his staff claims he improvised it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/us/politics/trump-north-korea.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

[leftstreet]

34. I believe them. I think he went off-script

It would also explain the bully's defensive gesture of arm folding, body hugging

"I know I'm not supposed to say this, but I'm gonna!"

[muriel_volestrangler]

35. The Wonkette blog pointed out the Tom Waits' lyrics to The Wire's theme song

you gotta keep the devil
way down in the hole
he's got the fire and the fury
at his command

http://www.tomwaits.com/songs/song/194/Way_Down_In_The_Hole/

[anneboleyn]

36. Obviously Stephen Miller, and clearly inspired by Game of Thrones, which uses "Fire & Blood"

all the time as it is associated with the character of Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons. I am quote sure that Miller would be interested in the show, and unlike what some are thinking here, Trump DEFINITELY did not think that himself or write it. There is no way in hell Trump writes his speeches. For a bit they pushed that narrative but dropped it later as it was so obviously not the case. That fact was obvious by the way he read it -- he clearly had never read the statement before as he kept stumbling and stuttering and staring at the words as usual.

Miller writes the majority of Trump's speeches. They all are in fact very similar to each other, reusing the same phrases and images over and over. It becomes easy to hear the patterns. Miller uses very simple prose (no sentences with multiple clauses that might confuse Trump's followers and his "message" and simplistic bible/Armageddon/fantasy images that appeal to certain elements that vote for Trump)

[bellmartin]

37. He has so many "tells" for when he's reading and when he goes off-script

Off-script is always wordier and more repetitive, adding his simple words and mangled syntax. He was definitely reading it the first time through, then felt it wasn't enough and once again stepped on and garbled his own message by repeating it, and as typical couldn't manage to repeat it verbatim.

He may not have told everyone on his staff, but yes, someone wrote it for him. While it was a horrific thing to say, it was clearly too lyrical for him to come up with. It does seem likely that that person cribbed if from GoT or NYT.

[lostnfound]

39. Is it coincidence it's the Nagasaki anniversary?

[edhopper]

40. They are trying so hard to day

they was his own words that it is obvious they were not.