--- title: J.K. Rowling Trolls Donald Trump With Abraham Lincoln Quote description: J.K. Rowling mocked Trump's tweets insulting Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski with the words of Abraham Lincoln. canonical: https://time.com/4838916/j-k-rowling-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln-quote/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-29T15:05:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:00.096Z og:title: J.K. Rowling Trolled Trump By Quoting a Former President og:description: "If you want to test a man's character, give him power" og:url: https://time.com/4838916/j-k-rowling-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln-quote/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt483f20508215eb02/6988c3be8fd2eea0ab356af1/jk-rowling_donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 170420_JK Rowling & Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: J.K. Rowling Trolled Trump By Quoting a Former President twitter:description: "If you want to test a man's character, give him power" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt483f20508215eb02/6988c3be8fd2eea0ab356af1/jk-rowling_donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # J.K. Rowling Just Trolled Donald Trump By Quoting a Former President  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 29, 2017 3:05 PM UTC  WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 04: U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a queston during an event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building April 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump delivered remarks and answered questions from the audience during a town hall event with CEO's on the American business climate. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 04: U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a queston during an event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building April 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump delivered remarks and answered questions from the audience during a town hall event with CEO's on the American business climate. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Jeff Spicer & Win McNamee—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 29, 2017 3:05 PM UTC [J.K. Rowling’s](http://time.com/4832926/jk-rowling-most-popular-tweets/) Twitter campaign [against Donald Trump](http://time.com/4723729/j-k-rowling-trump-tweets/) continued Thursday with a tweet that mocked the president with the words of one of his predecessors. After Trump posted two tweets insulting [_Morning Joe_](http://time.com/4769942/snl-morning-joe-cold-open/)co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Thursday morning, the Harry Potter author fired back with a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln. “‘Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power,'” she captioned a screenshot of the tweets. Trump’s [original message](http://time.com/4838899/donald-trump-twitter-morning-joe-mike-brzezinski/) — which had referred to Scarborough and Brzezinski as “Psycho Joe” and “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” — claimed that he had denied the MSNBC pundits entry to his Florida hotel Mar-a-Lago when Brzezinski allegedly showed up “bleeding badly from a face-lift.” > [](https://twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/880412953140318210) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4838916/j-k-rowling-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln-quote/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4838916/j-k-rowling-donald-trump-abraham-lincoln-quote/"},"headline":"J.K. 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