CNN, Woodward: Trump said "I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters" on Twitter

[highplainsdem]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04/politics/bob-woodward-book-donald-trump-fear/index.html

Twitter 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."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Betcha Trump never actually read anything by Hemingway

because Hemingway never wrote about him.

[sl8]

4. "The Old Man and the Pee"?

[peekaloo]

5. Nice!

[KewlKat]

7. OMG.......thanks for the laugh

[highplainsdem]

8. LOL!

[peekaloo]

2. Must resist urge to make a shotgun remark.

[lpbk2713]

3. For Whom the Bell Trolls

It trolls for he.

[Meadowoak]

6. He means Ernest goes to camp.

[yellerpup]

9. Sure. Except Hemmingway knew how to spell and punctuate.

[rusty fender]

10. I'm surprised that he knew

that Hemingway was an author

[GoCubsGo]

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]

12. He's the depressingly finite number of monkeys of Twitter.

He's the spilled bowl of alphabet soup of the Internets.