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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStephen Hawking Angers Trump Supporters with Baffling Array of Long Words
Stephen Hawking Angers Trump Supporters with Baffling Array of Long Words
May 31, 2016
PHOTOGRAPH BY KARWAI TANG / GETTY
LONDONThe theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking angered supporters of Donald J. Trump on Monday by responding to a question about the billionaire with a baffling array of long words.
Speaking to a television interviewer in London, Hawking called Trump a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator, a statement that many Trump supporters believed was intentionally designed to confuse them.
Moments after Hawking made the remark, Google reported a sharp increase in searches for the terms demagogue, denominator, and Stephen Hawking.
For a so-called genius, this was an epic fail, Trumps campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said. If Professor Hawking wants to do some damage, maybe he should try talking in English next time.
Later in the day, Hawking attempted to clarify his remark about the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, telling a reporter, Trump bad man. Real bad man.
By Andy Borowitz
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/stephen-hawking-angers-trump-supporters-with-baffling-array-of-long-words
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Stephen Hawking Angers Trump Supporters with Baffling Array of Long Words (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2016
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Sadly, until I saw it was from the Borowitz report, I was unfazed and unsurprised ...
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)1. Sadly, until I saw it was from the Borowitz report, I was unfazed and unsurprised ...
Like, "And water is wet."
sheshe2
(83,929 posts)2. Lol~
Me too.
sheshe2
(83,929 posts)3. Bless Andy Borowitz~
Thanks, bsis.