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WASHINGTONCriticizing the 19th-century writer as a death-obsessed weirdo with very little literary talent, President Trump doubled down on his attacks against the city of Baltimore Monday by tearing into Edgar Allan Poe during a rambling, three-hour press conference on the White House lawn. This guy was a pathetic loser and boozehound who was too busy crying about his lost love to write any half-decent stories, said Trump during an oftentimes discursive and meandering speech that mocked the disgusting, cousin-marrying hack for his boring short stories and poems. Everyone says The Raven, okay? But a raven? Not very scary. Not scary at all. Its just a dumb bird. Maybe if he had spent less time concerned about internal rhyme schemes and more time fixing the broken and crime-ridden city that he lived in, we wouldnt have these problems in Baltimore right nowhes a disgrace to the Whig Party. Not original. Not smart. And I know a lot of people who love detective fiction, and they all tell me Poes Dupin character was a disaster, just a complete disaster for the genre. Media analysts noted that Trumps attacks stand in stark contrast to his habit of routinely heaping praise on Romanticists associated with New York like Washington Irving and Herman Melville.
https://politics.theonion.com/trump-escalates-baltimore-attacks-with-rambling-3-hour-1836792672?utm_source=TheOnion_Daily_RSS&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=&utm_term=
grumpyduck
(6,255 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,592 posts)A world where the most ill-read and illiterate president is expounding on a great American author? This sounded like something Kellyanne would spoon feed him.
And a three hour open air press conference? Who does that? (Don't answer -- it's rhetorical.) I would have loved to have seen a reporter raise their hand and when called on say, "I've got to go to the bathroom. Are you planning on saying anything newsworthy in the next 10 minutes, or are you just going to continue ranting?"
panader0
(25,816 posts)grumpyduck
(6,255 posts)Gotta read those bylines. They got me this time.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Many OPs begin: "Not the Onion".....
spin
(17,493 posts)So there is no reason to be embarrassed because you didnt read the byline.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)names of his characters. The Onion missed with this one.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)ck4829
(35,091 posts)lapucelle
(18,319 posts)With Trump, the Onion headlines look extremely plausible.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)it took me 3-4 lines to realize.......
my god WHAT does that mean ???????????
that is scary as.... shit...
Leith
(7,813 posts)I read the whole OP, wondering who told hair furor about Edgar Allen Poe, and believed it. Then I saw the link to The Onion.
D'oh!
Somebody dumber than me..
No just joking.....
Nut I AM glad somebody else got farther than I did...
Leith
(7,813 posts)I usually catch it much sooner.
It isn't us - it's the putrid lump in the White House.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and then I paused and thought.....and checked the by line.
got me again......
pangaia
(24,324 posts)dhill926
(16,355 posts)orange shitstain would never read....
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)It's too possible for people to recognize it as satire.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)most likely has no idea who Edgar Allan Poe was.
Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,185 posts)And the grave is markedly sunken.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Because Trump would have no idea who Edgar Allan Poe actually was.
yonder
(9,674 posts)I thought no way tRump could come up with that and then looked at the link. Ah Ha, the Onion. It's sad really that an outlandish story like this can be mistaken for the truth and another example of how far we've fallen with our expectations of the highest office in the land.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)I don't like being taken for a ride.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Yikes.
LuvNewcastle
(16,856 posts)I said "Onion!"
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Trump has lots of insults yet to hurl.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Writers_from_Baltimore
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)No way in hell Mango Manboobs knows anything about Poe.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)" 'The Tell-Tale Heart" is a first-person narrative of an unnamed narrator, who insists that he is sane, but is suffering from a disease (nervousness) which causes "over-acuteness of the senses". Due to the ambiguity surrounding the identity of the story's narrator, the narrator's gender is uncertain."
"He is insists he is sane"...now that is the Racist Rapist right there.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)I bought into it for a few lines, but then the ???? started in the thought bubble over my head when I realized the unlikelyhood of Trump ever reading Poe.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)patphil
(6,207 posts)dflprincess
(28,082 posts)I realized no way Trump has ever read a single word Poe wrote....Then I saw The Onion link and my suspicions were confirmed.
demigoddess
(6,644 posts)it is possible. but never by reading the books.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)...when she said "That has to be the Onion!" I really fell for that one!
Nasruddin
(754 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)I knew it was satire.
Trump is too ignorant to know that much about Poe.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Yup. Frederick Douglass!
And, of course, A$AP Rocky...
defacto7
(13,485 posts)lies the secondary cause of all things
with the germ of their inevitable annihilation.
E. A. Poe
Eat that you brainless shit of a president.
Mme. Defarge
(8,042 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)
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jcgoldie
(11,645 posts)There's no way in hell illiterate dumbass Trump knows who Edgar Allen Poe is.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Eugene
(61,946 posts)so this is all too plausible.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Trump has killed comedy.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)knows there is a Baltimore connection to Edgar Allan Poe. In fact, it's a good bet he thinks Poe is a real estate developer.