Keep it simple, Stephen, so they'll understand
Stephen Hawking
Angers Trump Supporters With Baffling Array of Long
Words
By Andy Borowitz,
The New Yorker
03 June 16
The 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,” Trump’s 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
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