Trump Poems - by Claude Mayers

The spirit of Trump is still with us in the halls of white supremacist power. Gov Brian Kemp of Georgia signalled to the white policemen present in the Georgia State Capitol last week on 3-25-21 to arrest Ga Representative Park Cannon for daring to knock on the closed doors where/while Kemp was signing the state's racist voter suppression bill into law, flanked by six old white men, with the idyllic painting of a sunlit slavery plantation behind them as a backdrop. 244 other similar bills have been proposed all across the USA in 43 states, by Republicans who cannot win without keeping potential antagonistic voters away. Included in the Georgia bill that discriminates against people of color and poor people, extremely reducing number of dropboxes in black and hispanic neighborhoods, cutting back places to vote, and numbers of days for early voting, including only allowing one Sunday when black voters can visit polling places transported with fellow church members in their "souls to the polls" campaign. The most egregious and cruelly insane of all the components of the new law is the criminalizing of sharing water and food with people forced to wait in terribly long lines for hours because of the discriminatory practices the law will perpetuate and worsen. The reference to the former Chilean dictator Pinochet popped onto the page probably because praise for this horrible mass-murderer is surfacing recently in right wing autocratic media. And you know about Auschwitz. Where the ovens burned night and day immolating Jews and gypsies in the days of Adolf Hitler. Newly elected Senator Rafael Warnock, who happens to also be the pastor for Rep. Cannon, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta - where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. used to preach - has stated "We will keep knocking at that door." As the good ole boy racist network now stands naked, after so brazenly passing such a monstrous racist law for all to see - - -

Well, the nightmare of being weighed upon by the vulgar racist denigrating consciousness of the now-departing #45 should be over today. Joe Biden and a new era begin this afternoon. This poem was written Jan 18, 2021. May we all unite and love one another again. There's reason. Even if the major factor in the vacuum is the negative of Donald departing from any significant power over 330 Million Americans.

Jan 20 can't come soon enough? At least Trump is hiding away so we don't have to hear that voice of his and all his hateful incapable blaming denigrating words. Even the tweets are toning down. But he is President. And he does have a job for which he is responsible to all of us Americans. Shedding ruination on our nation as he throws his garbage all over the floor as he slowly heads out the door. In spite. And despair. He knows what challenges are ahead of him. So he's sucking the money out of his supporters to pay his lawyers for what is coming in the courts. Though some of those millions will pay for his leisure and his leadership of his frustrated base. And plenty of golf, where he cheats. Ever read 'Commander In Cheat' ?? about his cheating, especially when he plays golf. Where you are supposed to behave honorably when you play and score yourself. HA!

It's almost over. The worst presidential reign in history has 34 days left in which to torture us. Betrayed followers ready to kill for their conman. The veil still covering their corneas in a coat of white pus. Why have decent people been subjected to such gross lying destructive autocratic behavior? And never a word to Putin while having a bullyname for everyone else? Mankind is not what we think we are. Not when we see this specimen leading 70 million fools to treat him like a cult leader. Abandoning us in the face of the worst pandemic in a century. Because he is incapable. All he can do is denigrate, blame, inflame, be the racist that he is and the opportunist. Defacing the nation. That needs a tune-up. The honor we thought was innate in us shown not to be. Not with Trump as the figurehead. Not the leader. And the courts are waiting. Justice holds up an ear for the noontime whistle on Jan 20, 2021. When we will be more relieved of him. But not totally. He'll haunt us with hate and divisiveness. Trying to hold off what he deserves. In the tradition of Trump University and the Trump Foundation and the other lies and scams he dumps on us to coil our consciousness in disgust of what he does, has done, and still will do. A desperate man will do desperate things. It's not over til it's over. And it's not. Until he sits in prison, or time wounds all heals . . . 34 More Days

Yes he and his spirit are still with us. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's spirit still lingers in the ether.....Perhaps the oppressive spirit of Donald Trump will fade and wane, and acceleratingly so - on and after Jan 20th 2021. . . . . Meanwhile it hisses like a snake and smogs over our cities, ranting in our overladen ears from enough is enough....do we EVER want to hear that voice again? OY! . . .

Trump loses. Lies that he won. As if there are no such things as mail-in or absentee voting. Continuing his insanity. Probing bombing Iran. Putting incompetent people into offices in the Pentagon. America threatened by this loser. Going Out In A Blizzard of Lies and Lawsuits - - - today's Trump Poem, the first one podcast AFTER Election Day Nov 3 2020. More will be arriving in your podcast feeds . . .

Trump and Nixon: Two self-labelled 'law-and-order' presidents - who both were/are crooks. And publicly denied/deny it. Throw in Ronald Reagan, our third modern-day law-and-order president, with his Iran-Contra Scandal and the cocaine smuggling along with guns and money and our supposed enemy in the Ayatollah Khomeini reign of the 1980s, the country of Iran. All three presidents acted as if they were above the law. Trump and Nixon actually had a correspondence going on pre-social media, with handwritten letters. Many of these are being preserved in the Richard Nixon Library. The letter exchange continued for about ten years in the 1980s into early 1994, when Nixon died in April. They shared a distrust of the media, a desire to maximize TV ratings, the idea of using people as 'props,' etc.* John Dean, a central figure in revealing the depth and deceit of the Watergate election scandal of 1972 and thereafter, was Nixon's White House counselor. He thinks these cronies were 'two authoritarian personalities who would have a natural affinity for each other."** If you look a little deeper, Trump wanted to convince Nixon to move into his Trump Tower building (TT) on Fifth Avenue. To make it look more attractive to other wealthy possible patrons. Nixon was living in NYC at the time, about four miles away from TT. Nixon never did make the move, as his wife Pat had a stroke during the time Trump was working on him to do so. Trump did not attend Nixon's funeral. Deep Throat was Bernstein and Woodward's secret Watergate contact during that scandal. They would meet under cover of night or the concrete in underground parking garages at 2 in the morning. * and ** 'Trump-Nixon Letters Highlight Unique Relationship' Sept 23, 2020 News/Elections Aljazeera

Trump only cares about one person: himself. He revels in rallies. Where people don't wear masks, and pack themselves together. While the number of new Covid cases keeps rising, setting records almost every day, along with hospitalizations. And with his administration doing as bad as it is with Covid, he lies to his followers over and over again, lately telling them "We're rounding the corner." Do these people read or watch the news? Don't they realize how badly he is lying? 47 out of 50 states have rising numbers of new Covid cases today. Have they heard that Trevor Lawrence, the best college football player in the country has just tested positive for Covid? He's not playing against Boston College and maybe not the next week against Notre Dame. His symptoms initially are reported as mild. But what if he transmitted it to his teammates or perhaps to older people that he has met out in the real world? Donald Trump, a man without a moral anchor. Sabotaging the post office so you should NOT mail in your mail-in ballots anymore. You've got to go vote in person now. Trump is sabotaging our right to vote - by mail if people wish; his posse of n'er-do-wells are threatening not to count main-in votes in several counties in Pennsylvania, a crucial 'battleground' state. How have we allowed this to happen to our country? How can people vote against their own best interests, including those of democracy? Trump an autocrat wannabe. But if he loses he keeps talking about having to leave the country. Because prison awaits? . . . Many of you are aware that when he stepped into Air Force One to leave Nebraska behind him, he left many people in the lurch on the ground that had attended his rally, without transportation to get them back home on a freezing night. 30 buses-worth of supporters whom the supported demon cared nothing for . . . 'He Doesn't Care About You.' Today's Trump Poem

Covid-19 is hitting its highest heights in the USA. And of all the places on Earth, the two Dakotas, North and South, are leading the charge, with the highest per capita incidence of new Covid cases. Kristi Noem, South Dakota's Governor, rules her desolate state fiefdom. With her unrepentant approach to mitigating Covid-19's relentless march across her state. Which is no masks, no mitigation. Stubborn. Defiant. Unrepentant. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is telling his rallyists that as far as Covid goes, we are turning the corner. How can his followers actually believe him on this one? If they watch TV they have to know that the Covid-19 Pandemic in USA is the worst it has ever been. Liar. Pathological Liar. Trump. Leading our country into apocalypse. Amazing! isn't it?!? Meanwhile tomorrow Oct 27 2020, Mitch McConnell intends to bring up a vote to confirm the other unrepentant Republicans' Supreme Court judgeship hijack. This can indeed be stopped if the Democrats in the Senate stand up tall in unison to stop this unjust thrust into the heart of our democracy. After Barack Obama was told in mid-March 2016 that he wouldn't get a hearing for anyone he nominated for SCOTUS replacement of the late Antonin Scalia because it was 'too close to the election' 8 months away in the future. And now this rule bait-and-switch a week before the election!! A vote heralded to come possibly tomorrow. Filibustering daily, one Senator after the other, until Inauguration Day Jan. 20th, along with saying "I OBJECT!!" to any asking for 'unanimous consent' during the Senate days until Inauguration Day, can blow the doors closed on this SCOTUS game being played unfairly. But the tools are there. The Democrats must use them. With intense determination and devotion to our country. To save us from our own lack of integrity, and/or lack of grit to do this like hardy boisterous soldiers! As laid out by the Indivisible Organization: https://indivisible.org/resource/i-object-withholding-consent-and-filibustering

It must be getting a bit thin - the Reverence. For Donald Trump. With Covid-19 the worst it has been so far in America. And Trump just lies as if he has no idea of what the facts are and the charts show, saying 'we're turning the corner . . . .' Lie Lie Lie A reflex he has, as natural as breathing. Breathing lies. And never admit to any mistakes. Thank you, Roy Cohn! 'Abandon The Reverence' is today's very short Trump Poem, esp for Bernie!

Wouldn't it nice to have peace in the White House? Instead of chaos and the casting of blame and hate to violate anyone and everyone not on Donald Trump's wavelength? Today's Trump Poem 'Idealistic Leaders'

38 Trademarks applied for by Donald Trump were approved by China, after he was elected President. Spring Chang was Trump's Beijing-based lawyer for the transactions. Emoluments Clause in the Constitution, just in case you can't quite recall it word for word: From Article I, Section 9: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any KIng, Prince, or foreign state. I don't know where a Queen or Princess would fit in. Don't worry: they'd be representative(s) of a foreign state.

You can't continue to be fooled by the demagogue, the cult leader, who tells you to believe him, not what you see and/or hear. With your own functioning senses. A spiritual poem. 'You Must Believe What You See And Hear' is today's Trump Poem.

As Donald Trump freaks out, holding his maskless rallies and tweeting about how he could garner multimillion dollar donations from corporations for favors he could do for them, it is a good time to commemorate Preet Bharara, former US Attorney for the Southern District of NY. The New York Times called him one of the "nation's most aggressive and outspoken prosecutors of public corruption and Wall Street Crime" during his tenure. Bharara had been asked to remain in his post by the Trump transition team in November 2016, but on 2nd thought decided to fire him instead in March 2017 as he might be investigating the Trump Organization, operating out of Manhattan, in the heart of the Southern District of New York. 'Preet Bharara' is today's Trump Poem of the Day. It is included with many of these podcast poems in '"Believe Me" - Trump Poems Volume 1,' which is available in both hard copy and ebook form from the various usual sources.

Well, we made it to the future! And look at where we find ourself. Too much technology, some people don't even know their own phone numbers. We have to rely on our phone, atrophying our memory. Impairing our ability to think? Be critical of what is transpiring before our eyes. There so many lies to weed through. Especially those from our President. Who hit the 20,000 mark back in mid July. The Washington Post has been tallying them up. I'll post the new count when I read the upcoming report. Meanwhile, Trump is so bad, Michael Cohen in his book 'Disloyal' discusses how Trump believes his own lies. He keeps repeating them over and over and over to himself and the sycophants around him. So here we are today, partially because too many of us have 'Short Attention Spans' - - today's Trump Poem.

Getting closer to the elections, our candidates are out on the campaign trail. Trump at his rallies. Saying anything that comes into his head to please and excite his base of followers. A stream of consciousness emerging from his lying mouth, wherefrom over 20,000 lies and false claims have been spread to those in earshot of his voice. Yesterday saying if he loses to Joe Biden, who he said was the worst presidential candidate ever in the history of the USA (projecting again), maybe he should leave the country. Why did he offer such words? Freudian slip? That would make many Americans very happy. But there has to be more behind his off the cuff remark than a mere question lacking significant context. He does owe $410 million to someone or some entity. There's the moneylaundering allegations sloshing around in the background. There's the Russian hacking of our elections during the last four years that Trump denied at Helsinki in front of the whole world. Trusting the word of a murderous KGB-trained dictator over our own intelligence services! Remember what Trump said about firing the NFL players who kneeled during the playing of the national anthem? That they were SOB's? Angering many men who risk bodily injury every day on the football field to entertain us fans. We should all know that Colin Kaepernick started the act of kneeling to honor the fallen, as they do when a military person has fallen. As he was thinking and respecting the terrible racist killings of black people by police guns. Yes, there actually is a Siberian basketball league that attracts foreign players, including black Americans! 'Exiled To Siberia' - It could happen! . . . .

Donald Trump in front of an audience, cannot stop himself from saying anything to please, to connect with his audience. Lies abundantly flow like an infinite river. We now have a CURE for Covid-19 he told his NBC interviewer on television last night. Untrue. We have drugs that ameliorate symptoms, like he received Regeneron and Remdesivir, with a little anti-inflammatory steroid on the side: dexamethasone. He doesn't know who QAnon is. He just re-tweeted someone else's tweet. He had something going on in his lungs, but he wouldn't say it was pneumonia, or when he last tested negative for Covid before he became sick and then tested positive and ended up at Walter Reade Hospital in our nation's capital. But not before exposing himself and his coronavirus particles to who knows how many people?? 'Lies Flowing Like An Infinite River' is today's Trump Poem.

We're getting close to Election Day. 10 million people have already voted. The candidates are out there trying to win your vote, those of you who have not voted yet. They are saying all kinds of things that are not true; making promises they want you to believe. This poem is especially for you veterans of all sorts. But especially those of you who served our country. And made sacrifices that many of us can never imagine. 'Campaigning For The Veteran' is today's Trump Poem.

Remember the craziness of the beginning of the Trump Administration? (That is still going on today!?) Like Donald heaping all those important political functionings onto his son-in-law, one Jared Kushner. And don't you love the number of that most expensive building ever sold in America: 666 Fifth Avenue!? 'Ask Jared' tonight's Trump Poem Podcast #51.

It is time to stand up! Object to Senate 'Unanimous Consent' that accelerates Senate proceedings!!! Filibuster!!! One Senator saying 'I Object' obliterates the unanimous consent and forces the Senate to proceed much more slowly through its business, if it can proceed at all. - with frequent 'I Objects' being expressed by patriotic Senators! We must use the tools we were given 'to protect the minority from being trampled by an irresponsible majority' - as Indivisible says.' We can gum up the Senate until Inauguration Day by using these tools we have been given. To prevent this unfair Supreme Court hearing from coming to fruition. We can fight unfairness, as in what happened to Merrick Garland's March 2016 Supreme Court nomination never having a hearing 8 months before Election Day 2016 because it was characterized as being too close to the election by Mitch McConnell and the Republicans. But the Republicans wiping that act away as if it never happened. Thinking they can get away with what they are doing in the Senate right now. Which can be slowed and driven to a halt! From Kahlil Gibran: 'Strength and tolerance are partners.' 'We all admire strength, but the majority is most impressed by it when it is without form and stability. Few are those who respect strength when it is clearly defined and has meaningful ends.' Today's poem is 'Halt The Hearing - Object!!! and Filibuster!!!' Inspired - and the how-to-do-it laid out - by the activists in Indivisible. To call your Senators (2 for every state) just call the Congressional Switchboard 202-224-3121. They will put you through to one of your Senators at a time if you tell them which state you reside in. Be Active! Our country is at stake!!!

Science has been taking a hit ever since Donald Trump became President. He taboo'ed 7 words that the CDC could not use henceforth,* in the early days of his administration. He wants that magic vaccine for Covid-19 to be blessed by science before Election Day, November 3rd. But that will not happen. Especially with the news today that Johnson & Johnson is suspending their vaccine adventure due to an untoward undisclosed problem occurring with one of the vaccine volunteers. Creating a vaccine requires testing at three levels, to ensure the vaccine is safe, before allowing it to be given to millions of people. We have three one-sentence Spiritual Sayings from Kahlil Gibran from the book of the same title, to preface our Trump Poem of the Day: 'Science Takes A Hit' Including: 'Keep me safe, Lord, from the tongue of the viper, and of him who fails to obtain the fame he craves.' *Trump Administration 7 Forbidden Words CDC Cannot Use: fetus, vulnerable, science-based, evidence-based, entitlement, diversity, transgender. If you ask "REALLY?" The answer is "REALLY!"

A leader has many considerations within his consciousness, low or high, narrow or wide minded may he be. Even Donald Trump. Though vindictiveness and venom flavor what The Donald spouts to his subjects. Errrr, fellow citizens. Of America. Home of the brave, land of the free. We know he thinks the press is the enemy of the people, like a bad cliche dictator. George Orwell, role your eyes and turn over in your grave. Sorry. That is our unbelievable reality in the modern future where he have arrived in 2020, to have to experience. Shout-out in this poem for Ignorance and those who feel comfort in her warm sultry arms . . . .

How we are perceiving and treating Covid-19 has been changing and evolving. First it was no, masks did not help. Then by June 2020, yes, we said, masks do help. That includes the World Health Organization or the WHO, saying as late as the end of March that masks do not help. And even saying today that aerosol infection is not significant. We shall see. This poem is a snapshot from June 8 2020 when the USA had exceeded 100,000 deaths from Covid, due to our paralyzed President and his scientific ignorance interfering with our nationwide response. Not helping procure and produce protective gear and adequate testing supplies for our nation. Which now has over 215,000 deaths due to Covid. Our President afflicted himself. Still infectious as far as we know. Irresponsibly going back to the White House to endanger the people who work there. A host of his staff have been stricken by the disease. The midwest is peaking with new cases and deaths. It should be obvious now what should be done. But Trump cannot admit to any mistakes. His father and his mafioso lawyer Roy Cohn mentored him never to do that. Which doesn't conjoin well with science. Where theories are made, studies are done, assumptions must be revised and cast anew. But not if Donald Trump has anything to say about it. Or lie about it. In the death throes of his last weeks as President. Or can he weasel his way out of a loss by pulling out all the stops of deviousness and dirty play? While another 100,000 or more Americans will die before another President can come to the USA's rescue? Not a pretty picture. But this is what it looked like to me on June 8th 2020 . . .

The Vice Presidential debate pitted two white people against one woman of color, as the rules and chidings were not enforced equally. Pence interrupted Kamala Harris repeatedly, though not as psychotically as Trump interrupted Biden. But result was that Pence received more time to talk in the end. Caroline Randall Williams, the poet, and author of the brilliant NY Times Opinion piece 'You Want A Confederate Monument? My Body Is A Confederate Monument.' observed on the Lawrence O'Donnell show October 8, 2020 that Harris seemed to be looking ahead into the future with optimism. Talking to the youth of today who will be changing this country toward a better direction. While she thought Pence was looking backward, preserving the old establishment, the white racist establishment. The future is now. Donald Trump, Mike Pence, William Barr et al are trying to take us backwards, giving more traction to our racist ways, instead of following the demand of the public for more tolerance, and realization that by mid-century, people of color will outnumber white people. Whatever 'white people' means. When the Italians came over to this side of the Atlantic they were not considered white. Until it was politically expedient to add their numbers to increase the count of 'white people.' After they had met terrible racism in their first years in the USA. Black people and indigenous people, and Trump's 'Mexican gang' members, are still dealing with the racism of the moment. Which can be changed. Meanwhile, the Conman-in-Chief and his enablers are infecting everyone around them with their white privilege and Trump's thinking he can continue going around lying. Saying he's not infectious without showing anyone proof of a negative test. But not caring about threatening the health of his non-mask wearing followers surrounding him, who play the fool at his urging. And now are paying the price. But Mitch McConnell just said he won't go over to the White House, they're too incompetent over there dealing with the coronavirus. He confessed he actually had not been at the WH since early August. Preserve The Old Days (I'll Strangle The Golden Goose) - written in April 2016 in a flurry of foresight . . . .

The inevitable had to happen/Karma kept skirting the edges/And now everything is collapsing. Even our favorite most intense White House racist Stephen Miller has contracted the coronavirus. Along with ALL the heads of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all five men self-quarantining, which of course has never happened before. Meanwhile our probably still infectious Leader has demanded his way back home, to endanger everyone in the White House with possible Covid infection. He has to have his way! And remember Hope Hicks, we hear, found out she was positive last Tuesday, 8 days ago, Sept 30. She travelled on Trump's plane. If he knew she was positive before boarding, would he have still taken her along? So, did she find out en route, and THEN self-quarantined on the plane, They Say???? Now!? And then everybody on that plane on Sept 30 should have self-quarantined thereafter. But no, not our spoiled brat President. No, he had go to several functions and meet with people and not wear a mask all the time, including meeting with his donors in a smallish room around a table, for 45 minutes in Bedminster, NJ. Those people are just SO happy with him, and his ultra-selfish behavior. And finally on Oct 1 Trump reportedly tests positive and ends up spending the weekend in the hospital. Reportedly his oxygen level dropped twice, and he required supplemental oxygen. Plus the two new drugs Remdesivir and Regeneron. And for an extra-added attraction, dexamethasone, as an anti-inflammatory agent. Which sometimes makes patients act in bizarre fashion. A poll was done a couple of days ago where 63% of those polled said Trump acted irresponsibly, in the situation described above. Refer back to the above paragraph when the lies start flying, as the Trump mind tries to mix you up timeline-wise.

Donald Trump appears to have survived his hospital visit and bout with Covid. He probably should make it. Though he still is infectious, and will be for at least a few more days. And can spread it to other people, as before he actually tested positive. For one is infectious 2.5 days before symptoms appear, research is showing us; and the infectiousness peaks 0.7 days before symptoms appear. And typically lasts about one week. There have been patients whose infectiousness lasts longer, up to a few weeks. And then there are the critical patients on the ventilators in our hospitals who could be infectious for even longer periods of time. This poem is really an extreme fantasy of being Invincible. I have to give it to Donald this time, because he did get through. His will being the foundation on which his survival was expressed.

Donald Trump contracted the Coronavirus. At first they said from Hope Hicks, whom they reported tested positive first. Then they added Melania into the picture, plus Kellyanne Conway. And a bunch more Republicans who often didn't wear masks at various events. They mentioned that Hope had flown on the President's plane with the usual entourage. And now everyone fears for their life. Everyone that was in contact with Donald J. Trump over the last several days when he was most infectious. Exhaling plenty of virus particles, while his audiences sat maskless for the most part, right next to each other. Primed to receive their gift from the meister superspreader as he bespoke his random words of truth and lie. To please the crowd. As is his m.o. Now he is in the hospital, apparently bound to survive. Perhaps with no sequelae. Still infectious for a few more days. This poem is about The Beast. That could be here, there, and everywhere. Threatening a fearful society. Able to travel freely wherever it roams. Or is it some representative of our paranoia? Something to blame anything on, that we worry about? Rather than the President himself. There aliens engineering this treason? On the Earth, above it in our airplane lanes? . . .

In honor of President Trump being stricken with the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, and being treated with two new drugs that apparently have produced improvement in his medical status, here is today's poem 'I Am A Virus.' Remdesivir and Regeneron should help the President, especially at this early stage of his disease. He will be watched over the weekend in the hospital. And he may be infectious for another week or so. Though some people have remained infectious for up to 27 days. This poem on re-listening to it seems to be a personification of Mr. Trump and his own aggressive infective nature. 210,000 deaths in the USA and counting from Covid-19. Hopefully, Donald Trump will not be another death added to the total. Melania seems to be less sick. Who knows how many of the exposed individuals at the many events Trump attended this past week will fall sick. No masks, no peace. For those concerned with their future health, worrying about what will be will be . . .

Be Nice? Are we talking about Donald Trump!?? But, why not be chivalrous and uplifting, rather than disgraceful and embarrassing? We are post - 'debate' three days, more lying from Trump not knowing who the Proud Boys are when his son Don Jr. has been pictured with one of their leaders. He can't stop. He can't control himself. What a model for our nation! Our kids will be thinking that lying is normal, as is viciousness and intimidation and bullying and racist hate. But we do know Donald is insecure. Especially if we listen to his niece, psychologist Mary Trump, and his most intimate connection to the world for a decade, his designated thug and lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen in his new book 'Disloyal' - with its very interesting and entertaining view into our most evil, underhanded, lying, incapable President ever. Oh, yeah, and karma has struck its unavoidable gong: Donald, Melania, and Hope Hicks are testing positive for the coronavirus. Hopefully they will survive and come out the other side healthy with the after effects of humility and thankfulness infused into their souls.

After the agonizing irritating disruptive interruptive unrespectful unpresidential debate where Donald Trump could not get his lips together to condemn white supremacists, like the Proud Boys et al, but had the prepared phrase 'Stand back and stand by' stated quite clearly, we see Trump most clearly as the racist he is. For all the people who had hopes we were at the tipping point to deal with our centuries of endemic racism, those who marched peacefully, with respect for everyone, those who continue to suffer at the whim of racists who still rule this country, or do not condemn it and allow it to fester and continue....here is the poem 'Thicket Of Racists.'

After the extremely rude interruptive debate behavior of Donald Trump in 2020 Presidential Debate #1 Sept 29, Rudy Giuliani professes what a great performance Trump gave the nation. He is tweeting it widely, to much derision and annoyance, if you read the comments to his posts. But Rudy has been in Trump's corner before. Sinking to the level of the conman when he once had been a respected prosecutor. I'm not sure how respected he was as a Mayor of NYC, nor as a faithful husband. Michael Cohen's book 'Disloyal' is prominent right now, with much personal information that is very informative about his ex-Boss' personality and exploits. This poem actually was written in 2018, but with Rudy acting up, and Trump flaunting the debate rules to ruin the value of the debate itself, this poem re-arises to give us a window into this unholy trio on the eve of the 2020 election. When Rudy is electioneering for Trump, and the imprisoned Cohen is spilling the beans of truth behind Trump's racist curtain, not to mention the Proud Boys. Trump emboldening them and other right wing hate groups by declining to condemn them and other white supremacists threatening violence, when asked point blank by moderator from FOX News Chris Wallace. Robert Mueller is referred to in this poem, as is former WWII Japanese Emperor Hirohito, as history has moved along. Meanwhile, Trump and Giuliani are going down in flames supporting each other's ineffable delusionary kamikaze self-destruction - respectively. Although I don't think that last word fairly could apply to either of them.

Exhume: definition >> dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground* This poem was written on February 16 2017, and is very appropriate for today. With the details of Donald Trump's taxes finally available for examination via the New York Times. Donald's grandfather, Friedrich, from whom the family fortune was founded, was deported from Bavaria after returning home at the beginning of the 20th century. The government of Bavaria was displeased that he had avoided serving his military obligation. The truth is always a casualty of Donald Trump's >>20,000 false claims/lies spoken, since assuming the Presidency a month before this poem was written. *Oxford Languages Dictionary

Make that 'Archie Bunker racism,' per Michael Cohen in his book 'Disloyal.' Which is proving very interesting with insight into Trump's motivations and aspirations, that he shared with - or foisted upon - Michael Cohen, Especially his disdain and jealous hate for Barack Hussein Obama. Always spoken by Trump to Cohen as all three names with the accent on the Hussein. 'Trump And His Followers,' today's poem, is in the moment with what is going on today with how much Trump's followers will allow themselves to accept. In their own decrepitude, as this man goes more and more ballistic in his blatant grab for power toward being The Dictator of America for Life. Unless he loses the 2020 election. Which would put him in an entirely different situation with the rule of law. That he has shown he cares little about. Same for our constitution. Same for, of course, our first woman to ever lie in state in the history of the USA. And second woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Earning respect around the globe. But practically none with the most powerful Republicans, who only want to replace her ASAP with someone who can judge the 2020 election into a Trump win. Feckless - definition: lacking strength of character; irresponsible Birtherism: no such term or word until 2011, when Donald Trump realized it would be a good idea to question if Barack Hussein Obama was born in the USA? or Kenya was his place of birth?

Extinction of a species unique to a biome or perhaps a virome. This occurs every day, but is accelerated by the massive plundering and destroying of our environment, our planet, to the point today of now threatening our very existence. 'Rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosystems and individual species.' That is what Vandana Shiva writes in her new book 'Oneness and the 1%.' From which I am sharing a couple of paragraphs in today's recorded podcast. Sound like something you know? Like Trump's 'philosophy'** of taking without giving, or considering anything besides his anthropocentric self and his greedy fellow plunderers as the center of the universe? Whatever happened to peace and love? or peaceful co-existence? and tolerance? instead of racism and hate? Why are we allowing ourselves to be drawn down to the lowest common denominator by this denigrating insecure man deathly afraid of his karma coming to roost if he loses the election? Cheating like a demon, wrecking the very foundations of our democratic system, yearning to be Dictator and President-for-Life of our USA in his mad scramble to protect himself from the rule of law, AND the constitution - which he has grossly failed to protect. ** I know, I'm giving him way way way too much credit. He functions by instinct. Deep consideration is foreign to him and his decision making. Which he owes to us, an entire country of citizens for whom he is theoretically responsible. For life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Not Putin, Erdogan, Xi and his love-letter writer Kim Jong-un.

Our democracy is in danger. Donald Trump is tipping us into his autocratic rule, aided by Mitch McConnell. 200,000 dead from the Coronavirus and he wants a mandate to continue acting out as badly as he has so far?! Now trying to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) while 2020 voting has already started, after McConnell and the self-righteous Republicans declared in March 2016 that Barack Obama nominating a replacement for Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court could not be accepted! It was too close to election day!! 8 months away. And now we are actually in the process of the elections with Election Day itself less than 6 weeks away. Now, to fight this unscrupulous sneak attack on our sense of fairness and justice by Mitch McConnell, our patriotism is called upon to save our country. Our politicians must do what they have been destined to do. And they must do it Obstinately!!! As the Republicans play, our heroes must fight back with equal force! And up the ante!! Despite RBG's dying wish that her replacement not be confirmed until a new president has been installed, Mitch McConnell has elected not to respect her wish. But Senate Democrats have the power to stop him and his unethical Republicans. The Senate runs on unanimous consent. If a single Senator objects to anything, even routine procedure, everything grinds to a halt. That is what Senate Democrats must do: block unanimous consent on every single thing for the rest of the year and until Inauguration Day. They will have to battle to exhaustion, like good soldiers! It will be America's best chance to stop Trump and McConnell from ruthlessly damaging our country. This poem was written in September of 2017. It has the feeling of today and the evil seething our towers, steaming them up with ANGER!! The word near the end of the poem is mysterioused - make more mysterious. 'Invisible Sorcerers Working For Secret Contractors.' I'd like to dedicate it to my contractor friends Kelvin, Pete, Billy K, and Jess down on Marco Island.

Both these poems were written on February 1, 2017 - a few weeks after Donald Trump was inaugurated. With the biggest crowd ever! Right? Trump our P.T. Barnum. Always the superlative. Always the best. The biggest. Now we are bearing the fruit of our subjection to this venal cheat and conman. As he pushed Sean Spicer run out there to lie about the inauguration crowd, unable to even to properly tie his tie, now he lies and cheats about his performance with the Covid-19 epidemic. Two hundred thousand dead and he's doing a fine job. Sabotaging the post office to suppress the vote-by-mail in the time of Covid. Intending to take away your earned Social Security pension money by cancelling the payroll tax which would fund it for the next 20 years at least. In order to privatize it. People who don't read, believing his outlandish lies. Remember, he did say the coronavirus pandemic was a hoax as the year began and the number of deaths and new cases started mushrooming. In America Double-Crossed Trump is already foreseen as a madman dictator. As he is who would prefer to be President for life. Rules really not made for him. He just plays to win. Democracy be damned. Morals non-existent in Trump's conscience. Roi d'Or is French for King of Gold. In the second poem we catch the Thieves steal this and that/Put it under your hat/Stuff your coat/Like a desert packrat An Anaphylactic Reaction is a severe allergic reaction that sometimes kills the victim, inadvertently eating a trace of a peanut, or shrimp.

When questioned this week, Donald Trump would not agree that if he loses the November 3rd election, there will be a peaceful transfer of the Presidency to his victor. This is shown on youtube for all to see via the link below to Chris Hayes 'All In' post of his open to his Sept. 23 2020 MSNBC show. VERY IMPORTANT!! Today's Trump Poem podcast is one that I wrote today, in reaction to this next troubling event on the Trump road to authoritarian rule. Hayes is interviewing author Baron Gellman who wrote a very essential piece in the November Atlantic magazine (available online now) entitled 'The Election That Could Break America.' Gellman reveals that Trump is preparing to steal the November 3rd election in many devious ways - including arranging battleground states to appoint electors to the electoral college that will be loyal to him. Whether the voters vote predominantly Republican or Democrat. Trump already hiring 1000 lawyers to organize chaos and hanky-panky around November 3rd Election Day to check ballots, and individual signatures. Trump followers intending to gather at polling places to intimidate voters. I thought this was illegal, to campaign on election day within a certain distance deemed too close to the place of polling. . .? This is a crucial time for America and our tenuous democracy that Trump is working to turn into his own autocratic dictatorship, discarding the rule of law en route to erecting himself President for Life. Here is the link to the 'All In' Chris Hayes - Barton Gellman open to the Sept. 23rd 2020 showing, starting with live footage of Trump being questioned by a reporter and refusing to agree that there will be a peaceful transfer of power to the next President if he loses: https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-chilling-hayes-unpacks-trump-s-vast-and-ongoing-project-to-steal-the-election-92424773888 Donald Trump furthers his father's sentiments, Never To Concede! Which is the name of today's Trump Poem. Please share with your friends, family, and concerned citizens.

This is a Trump Poem I wrote today, reflecting many of the things going on right now. With marchers protesting in the streets of Louisville. Because no policemen were indicted with the invasion of Breonna Taylor's home in the middle of the night. Three policemen killing her in her bed. Trump preparing to steal the election in many devious Trumpian ways - including arranging several states to appoint electors to the electoral college that will be loyal to him. Whether the voters vote predominantly Republican or Democrat. Trump already hiring 1000 lawyers to organize chaos and hanky-panky around November 3rd Election Day. As discussed by Barton Gellman on the the Chris Hayes 'All In' show tonight Sept 23, 2020. Gellman's important new piece in the upcoming Atlantic Magazine entitled 'The Election That Could Break America' can be referenced for more information on this. And if we are lucky, Chris Hayes and MSNBC will post the open to tonight's show on youtube for all to hear, see, and think about. These are terribly troubling times for America and our tenuous democracy that Trump is working to turn into his own autocratic dictatorship, discarding the rule of law en route to erecting himself President for Life. Here is the link to the 'All In' Chris Hayes - Barton Gellman open to the Sept. 23rd 2020 showing Trump not agreeing that there will be a peaceful transfer of power to the next President if he loses, when questioned: https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-chilling-hayes-unpacks-trump-s-vast-and-ongoing-project-to-steal-the-election-92424773888

Theocracy - a form of government in which a country is ruled by religious leaders or divine right. Vocabulary.com >> 'not a lot of room for dissent in a theocracy.' Betsy DeVos, still current Secretary of Education, is noted to have come from a family of fundamentalist extremists. Betsy's husband Dick founded Amway, which was determined to have run a pyramid scheme (or a scam) to manipulate its employees. This poem was written January 4, 2017, a few weeks before Donald Trump was inaugurated as President. We can take it as a look ahead, from back then, to what we are experiencing now . . .

Our conscience must be awakened. We know it's there. Mitch McConnell denies President Obama a hearing for his nomination of a Supreme Court replacement for Judge Antonin Scalia in February 2016, eleven months before the inauguration of a new President. Now he wants to approve someone 6 weeks before the November 2020 election, ignoring his self-righteous rule . Our conscience usually reminds us to do the right thing, weigh right and wrong, act in the spirit of Justice & Fairness. Almost all of the Republicans have reversed what they said concerning Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016, saying YES they will hear President Trump submit his nominee 6 weeks before the 2020 election. Here's what some of them said back in early 2016 though: Joni Ernst of Iowa: when opposing a vote for Obama's nominee before the 2016 November election said: “In the midst of a critical election, the American people deserve to have a say in this important decision that will impact the course of our country for years to come.” Thom Tillis of North Carolina: In 2016, Tillis argued against considering Obama's nominee: "We are in the middle of a presidential election, and the Senate majority is giving the American people a voice to determine the direction of the Supreme Court [once a new President is elected]." Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in 2016: said “Let the American people have a voice in the composition of the Supreme Court. Instead of a lame duck president and Senate nominating and confirming, a new president and Senate – elected by the people only a few months from now – should make that important decision. ... In the politicized atmosphere of an election year, you probably shouldn't even nominate someone. ... It's not fair to the nominee, it's not fair to the court." That was then. This is now. Power over Justice & Fairness? Barack Obama himself stated the following on September 18, 2020, after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death at age 87: 'A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what's convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard.' Conscience! Conscience! American people. Do unto others how you would have them do unto you. Ruth Bader Ginsburg aka RBG expressed her last fervent wish was to be replaced by a NEW President.

When those who know/Reject interjection/Justice Violated/Thoughts deceptive. Like Mitch McConnell, trying to pull a fast one. After what he perpetrated in February 2016, preventing President Obama from even getting a hearing for his nomination for a replacement Supreme Justice - February too close to the next election and inauguration of a new President???. But now when Trump is President, he lacks the integrity to treat the situation equally, as to how he and the Republicans treated Obama. But the American conscience exists. It just needs to be awakened. It knows what is right and wrong. Time for interjection here. For those who know. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's "most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed." This from one of our greatest advocates for women and women's rights. And though her body may not be stirring anymore, her spirit is still out there. We all feel it. It wants justice and equality, not skullduggery and impunity, for the USA, and people everywhere.

Trials and Tribulations for the nation. Lawyers, Guns & Money (ty Warren Zevon) to fight the battles in court. Trump usually having about 70 suits going on every year of various sorts. But if he loses the election on Nov 3rd the next cases may be more serious in nature. Individual #1 with Michael Cohen in Stormy Daniels bank fraud / illegal campaign contribution case, and who knows what will be revealed relative to Putin, Russia, our elections, and the Orange one. Especially as Additional Evidence Trickles In . . . .

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is watching . . . another Senate Circus will be brewing as the hypocrites and the sycophants battle it out to replace her, against the precedent set in 2016 rationalizing what they did to President Barack Obama replacing Antonin Scalia who had died in Feb 2016 and Obama nominated Merrick Garland in March and the Republicans racistically prevented Obama's nomination from even being considered in the Senate! What malarkey will they pull now? As observed for example with Brett Kavanaugh, and also with the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Great loss tonight for women's rights, cracking the glass ceiling for women, being on the right side of history. Trying to help advance the USA beyond its gender and racial prejudices, aiming toward its higher aspirations of justice for all, equal protection under the law.

Smoke from West Coast wildfires spreads across the country. Remember that orange sky in San Francisco that you saw on TV about a week ago? Or were you taking your morning walk in Oakland at 10 AM that day, and the sky still seemed dark? These wildfires demand a national and perhaps international response. Where is our President when we need him?

The dichotomy. Trump tells 20,000 lies/false claims since he became President in 2017. That's a fact! - - Washington Post tallying

Disgraced former Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scott Pruitt ordered a $65,000 SUV that had a siren installed to get him and his 24/7 security entourage through traffic to vaunt themselves into Le Diplomate, Pruitt's favorite restaurant in Washington D.C. And then there were the two days of partying in Paris en route to Morocco to lobby for Cheniere Energy. A poem to help you remember: Scott Pruitt, of Oklahoma, Evangelical, A bit light on his morals....almost became Attorney General!! but now we have his spiritual brother installed instead: William Barr.

The Russians are still at it: hacking at our elections via social media. Trump & Co. seem to welcome this, at the same time denying it is happening. One word here: Helsinki. The photo on the left features Valery Gerasimov, Chief of Russia's Armed Forces - he is the man with the headphones on. He and Putin have decided to wage cyberwarfare at a 4 to 1 ration to physical warfare. A troll is a person or entity on the internet who/which sows discord by starting quarrels or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory information, or extraneous or off-topic messages in an online community. Bot Attacks: the word 'Botnet' combines the words 'robot' and 'network.' Cyberhackers use special Trojan viruses to breach the security of attacked computers, take control of these, and organize all the infected machines into a network of 'Bots' that the hackers can remotely manage to i.e., send out the same message to millions of computers and their unsuspecting users.

Each rambunctious galavant/Shining in a tainted spotlight/Overshadowing what has happened yesterday/One episode replacing another/The previous drama fading into a future past/There so many crises/Created by the chaos maker/Who remembers the significance/the sequence/Of specific events in a swirling history

Micromanage what you do not know very much about. Insecure from childhood up to today. Never really learning much about anything important, except being a conman, not paying people who did work for you, nickle and dimer, keep a google of lawyers like Michael Cohen who will sue who you wish as an act of intimidation. Works well with others? Kindergarten kids try to; most workers try to. But Donald J ??????

For Donald Trump And His Band of Craven Followers. On 9/11 Anniversary #19. How will he co-opt it? While he still brings his followers together en masse packed together no masks. After just about everyone has heard the Bob Woodward [RAGE] tapes where Trump told that he knew the virus was 5X worse than the flu, and was more worrisome because it was contracted thru the air. And there he is with his sacrificial followers. His base. Whom he cares not a whit for. Including the evangelicals. A minute of silence please for the victims and their families of 9/11 day. And also the nearly 190,000 Covid-19 dead, and Trump still hasn't arranged for health workers to be properly armed with shields and protective gear. Nor has he helped on the grand scale needed with providing testing with a quicker turnaround so schools could open safely. Also one more minute of silence please for 28 year old Teacher Barrister who died Monday from Covid-19 in South Carolina.........

Donald Trump is a conman who historically avoids paying people who do work for him. It's a kind of thievery. But we don't want him stealing the country and giving it to Putin, do we? Election Day 2020 arrives Nov 3. Russia is already at work with her hacking teams influencing our social media minds for their better outcome. Manipulating Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. Don't be oblivious! Trump wants to be President for Life! Michael Cohen told us that. Putin's got something on him. Compromised says Peter Strzok (pronounced Strock) in his new book. About Trump. And maybe our country too.