Newsflash: Trump no more "ad-libbed" that "fire and fury" remark
than Bush ad-libbed "shock and awe." Neither of those lummoxes has one drop of wordsmithery in their entire oafish souls.
What happened was, Trump got "fire and fury" handed to him. He had to memorize it, he couldn't do it, so Bannon wrote it on a napkin for him to peek down at: "FIRE AND FURY." He didn't care for it. It was "too nice." He wanted something with, oh, say, "power" in it.
Bannon explained that power was contained in the phrase "fire and fury." Melania said, "Be like Emily Dickinson, honey. Go slant." Kushner told his pa-in-law that you didn't want to be so direct, that "fire and fury" conveyed power without saying it.
Trump made a sourpuss face: "OK, whatever. Fancy shit."
So he goes out and "ad-libs" the "fire and fury" line. He repeats the phrase, "fire and fury," because he can't stop talking, but it feels weak to him, too pretty, too poetryish.
He can't help himself. He throws in "and, frankly, power."
That's what he ad-libbed: "and, frankly, power," and it felt good, because he nailed it, and he knew it, no bullshit, and he showed them, all those fancy poets, and his base loved it, and he showed Kim, too.
And now he was "bored with this Korea thing," and all he wanted was "my remote, my bathrobe, my cheez whiz and my Ritz crackers. I've accomplished more today with one ad-lib than all the other Presidents in 300 years."
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