Former President Donald Trump issued a statement today to endorse a book by Fox News’s Jesse Watters titled ‘How I Saved The World.’ Still, it’s quite clear that the twice-impeached one-term president didn’t read the book that he claimed is a “great new book” and lifted a section from the book’s details page on Amazon as if it was his own thoughts. New York Times’s Maggie Haberman saw the endorsement and wrote in a tweet, “I wanna know who wrote this.” Trump’s use of the word ‘interspersed’ had everyone guessing.
“Great new book by Jesse Watters, How I Saved The World,” Trump wrote. And here comes the plagiarized part that reads, “Interspersed are his thoughtful suggestions for overcoming left-wing radicalism, maintaining American democracy, moving beyond aging hippies (like his long-suffering, loving parents), saving the world from social justice warriors and the deep state—all while smirking his way through life in only the nicest way.” Trump ended it with, “Get a copy today, congratulations Jesse!”
The receipts:
LOL. Trump’s latest statement is an endorsement of Jesse Watters’ book that reads like a personal blurb/review from someone who has read the book, but which is actually lifted verbatim from the book’s details page. pic.twitter.com/DKUHgxebMk
— Jeremy Stahl (@JeremyStahl) July 14, 2021
And again:
The “interspersed” line in Trump’s statement on the Jesse Watters book sounded off, un-Trumpy. That’s because it was copy-pasted from the publisher’s description of the book.
Future solution: Publishers of pro-Trump books need to copy his syntax in their ad copy. pic.twitter.com/qGcWVVMqy6
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 14, 2021
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Twitter lit up.
The tell is the use of “interspersed.” I mean, come on.
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) July 14, 2021
Trump caught plagiarizing in new statements after finding them suspiciously coherent and well written.🤔
Really a former President of the USA not being able to write a book review?Wait, I had a brain fart! It’s a TFG play-acting as president, and he can’t even do this right! https://t.co/O5QMhbwPCH
— Bob Lawrence –Obama is #1 (@TrumpluvsObama) July 14, 2021
Plagiarism: it’s a Trump family tradition. https://t.co/L8MCNBAZDB
— Nita Cosby (@5_2blue) July 14, 2021
~ his long-suffering parents~
“Oh, how they suffered, suffered like no one ever has before. When I tell you the amount of suffering, SO much. You wouldn’t believe, how lonnnng they suffered, those parents, tremendous parents, really just tremendous people, but they suffered…”
— gimme your waffle (@tsjwaffle) July 14, 2021
Meredith McIver strikes again
— Erin And A Half Ryan (@morninggloria) July 14, 2021
We all know that tfg has never read a book. 😂
— Yes! Dogs Are (@FinerThanPeople) July 14, 2021
He plagiarized his review? 😆
— Kimberly Brickley (@KCBrickley) July 14, 2021
Someday someone is going to have to explain to me why being a “social justice warrior” is a bad thing.
— Todd Powell (@tpowellhys) July 14, 2021
It’s like he operates under the assumption that because HE doesn’t read, that must mean nobody else does either.
— 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 (@ZiggySwiss) July 14, 2021
Trump’s statement praising Jesse Watters’s new book is literally just Watters’s own description of the book. https://t.co/YGjW6fJzOn
— Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) July 14, 2021
And Jesse tweeted out the former guy’s plagiarized statement.
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) July 14, 2021
As funny as that is, it’s also sad that we had a president for four long years that doesn’t read, and yet, he called himself a ‘stable genius,’ and his followers ate it up.
Featured image via Gage Skidmore/Flickr, under Creative Commons license 2.0