Stephen King vs. Donald Trump
Read 20 entries attributed to Stephen King alongside 20 attributed to Donald Trump. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Stephen King alongside 20 attributed to Donald Trump. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: life, knowledge, philosophy, humor, justice, mind. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Stephen King, entry #1743: "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him…"
Attributed to Donald Trump, entry #52334: "These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This has nothing to do with r…"
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Stephen King
1986
Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror novels and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.
"Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and …"
#love"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mun…"
#love"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to…"
#love"For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they und…"
#love"The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial. You know? We've sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities. Ols…"
#life"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."
#life"What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane."
#knowledge"Worlds sometimes shudder and turn inside their axes, and this was such a time. Flagg felt it, but did not grasp it. The salvation of all that is good is only…"
#philosophy"You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you."
#family"I cried, all right. I sat there at my desk and I cried for her, for me, for both of us, for all of us. I can't remember hurting any more in my life than I di…"
#life"This," I said pleasantly, "is known as getting it on."
#knowledge"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favourite chair and stays as long as it wants."
#humor"Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark."
#family"Go down, Jack. Get them and I'll take the cancer away. Oh, but right now he had more immediate concerns, didn't he? He was swelling up like a waterlogged spo…"
#life"A stupid man is more prone to cabin fever just as he's more prone to shoot someone over a card game or commit a spur-of-the-moment robbery. He gets bored. Wh…"
#justice"Alice had managed to get herself back under some sort of control, but it was thin. Thin enough to read a newspaper through, his bingo-playing mother might ha…"
#power"The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face... and if bait were needed, w…"
#power"No, of course victims of high-gamma radiation didn't turn transparent, like Claude Rains in The Invisible Man. They didn't start to lose inches as their bodi…"
#life"I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way …"
#mind"Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret."
#deathDonald Trump
1945
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
"These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This ha…"
#religion"We're not entering a dark winter, we are entering the final turn and the light at the end of the tunnel"
#success"People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?"
#knowledge"When a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at…"
#knowledge"In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat. It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't b…"
#justice"No American should be forced to choose between the dictates of the federal government and the tenets of their faith."
#hope"Well, er, it wasn't, er, it wasn't very stupid, I can tell you that."
#language"I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."
#knowledge"I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany m…"
#life"It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy."
#time"I am the chosen one. Somebody had to do it, so I'm taking on China... and you know what we're winning."
#knowledge"Look, when I go to rallies, they turn around, they start screaming at CNN. They want to throw their placards at CNN. You know. I think you would do much bett…"
#philosophy"If you start adding it up, our real unemployment rate is 42%."
#art"We've let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do... If President Obama's goal had been to weaken America, he could not…"
#mind"Mike Flynn is a fine person, and I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He is a man who there was a certain amount of information given to Vic…"
#friendship"I love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions I just don't want a poor person."
#money"They're trying to scare everybody, from meetings, cancel the meetings, close the schools—you know, destroy the country. And that's okay, as long as we can wi…"
#knowledge"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."
#humor"Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are …"
#friendship"The national debt has doubled. And you know the bad part about that? You think if the national debt has doubled, our infrastructure would be great, our count…"
#knowledge