Trumps's best line comes from Mark Twain

1/8/2015 | Vanity

[ckilmer]

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain

[SkyDancer]

I grew up with Mark Twain. Read everything he wrote. We have the "Mark Twain Tonight" DVD with Hal Holbrook doing Mark Twain. Mark Twain on politicians:

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

"We have the best congress money can buy."

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

"Congress. That grand old benevolent national asylum for the helpless"

[Cecily]

Trump must have seen “The Big Short.” That line appeared on the screen at the beginning of the movie.

[TexasRepublic]

Mark Twain went bankrupt publishing Grant’s memoirs and had to make extensive public speaking tours for years to clear his debts. Why, oh why, did he never make phonograph records? He could have made a fortune that way.

[Albion Wilde]

Reagan paraphrased that one.