TrumpBookReport Is The Feel-Good Post-Debate Viral Hashtag We Needed

We take a look at the phenomena of Trumpian style summaries of famous novels and their characters.
When Republican presidential nominee opens his mouth, two things emerge: bile and confusion. The first, his brutishness, can be summed up with his uttered growl “such a nasty woman” as Hillary Clinton fielded a question from moderator Chris Wallace at the third and final (thank god) presidential debate. The second, his absence of grammar, sends copy-editors into a frenzy of scalp massages, but Clinton has enough discipline to stay quiet, content to allow Trump to wrap himself in his own forked tongue. To see what I mean, try to parse out this example plucked from the transcript of the debate :

We don’t know who the rebels are. We’re giving them lots of money, lots of everything. We don’t know who the rebels are. And when and if — and it’s not going to happen, because you have Russia and you have Iran now. But if they ever did overthrow Assad, you might end up with — as bad as Assad is, and he’s a bad guy, but you may very well end up with worse than Assad.

Trump’s labyrinthine language wasn’t lost on the Twitterverse, among them a St. Louis alderman and mayoral candidate Antonio French who tweeted:

Trump’s foreign policy answers sound like a book report from a teenager who hasn’t read the book. “Oh, the grapes! They had so much wrath!”
— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) October 20, 2016
Twitter users ate it up, and within hours, the hashtag #trumpbookreport (as well as #trumpbookreports)was born. The hashtag speaks for itself—Trump’s takes on famous books. Here are some of our favorites:

Tremendous, tremendous jest. Huge amounts of jest. You’ll never see more jest, I tell you. Well I – I have a bit more jest. #TrumpBookReport — Sady Doyle (@sadydoyle) October 20, 2016
Dead souls? You bet the’re dead. Dead, dead souls. All registered voters. Dead. 100% Democrats. 100%. Dead souls. #TrumpBookReport
— Elif Batuman (@BananaKarenina) October 20, 2016
The “Great” Gatsby. WRONG! Lots of people say I’m the greatest Gatsby. His parties are pitiful. Have you seen Mar-a-Lago? #TrumpBookReport — Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) October 20, 2016
Anne Frank—such a nasty girl, illegal, Trojan horse, disgusting, but people say it ends well: deportation—good luck w/ that #TrumpBookReport
— Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) October 20, 2016
“There’s these hitchhikers, thousands of them, and they’re pouring into the galaxy like you wouldn’t believe.” #trumpbookreports — Brian Bowler (@brnwdbwlr) October 20, 2016
If Hillary wants to fix the solitude, why hasn’t she done it in the last 100 years? I’ll do great things for the solitude #trumpbookreports
— Nastylissa Thomson (@melissathomson) October 20, 2016
And one of our own contributions: