Is President Trump America’s Unacknowledged Poet Laureate?

[Chris]

Is President Trump America’s Unacknowledged Poet Laureate?

...Rob Long’s Bigly: Donald Trump in Verse (Regnery Publishing, 2017) takes a different tack. Instead of randomly assembling words, Long lifted verbatim quotes from our current president going as far back as the 1980s and changed only the formatting and punctuation to create 100 poems in free verse. The result is a collection of The Donald’s reflections on life, love, beauty, and death in a style reminiscent of Ezra Pound. Combined with fawning commentary, it is yugely hilarious.

Consider “Poorly Educated,” which is taken from Trump’s Nevada Primary victory speech in February 2016:

So we won the evangelicals.
We won with young.
We won with old.
We won with highly educated.
We won with poorly educated —
I love the poorly educated!

...There is also “The Pope”:

The Pope
I hope
Can only be scared
By God.

...Donald Trump’s magnificent poem “It”:

We need that thinking.
We have the opposite thinking.
We have losers.
We have losers.
We have people that don’t have
It.

Don't get me wrong, I still love The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld

...

The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing

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[midcan5]

Interesting, made me want to have some fun too.


you ain't gonna convince
deep down racists
with intelligence
they all republicans today
Lincoln would ponder
mention abortion guns welfare
food stamps immigrants
etc etc etc etc
don't forget AA
then so called religious
add in resentful white men
vote republican
that much is established
democrats have to
label the republicans
what they really do
ignore their smoke screen
care for babies
the working class
and coal too
money for the rich
none for CHIP
less for the old
and needy
shout it from the rooftops.

"A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it." Gilles Deleuze


"President-elect Trump seems incapable of experiencing humility. Despite the multiple bankruptcies, the failed businesses, the failed marriages, he seems to maintain an impenetrable self-regard."

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...best-president

[Peter1469]

Interesting, made me want to have some fun too.


you ain't gonna convince
deep down racists
with intelligence
they all republicans today
Lincoln would ponder
mention abortion guns welfare
food stamps immigrants
etc etc etc etc
don't forget AA
then so called religious
add in resentful white men
vote republican
that much is established
democrats have to
label the republicans
what they really do
ignore their smoke screen
care for babies
the working class
and coal too
money for the rich
none for CHIP
less for the old
and needy
shout it from the rooftops.

"A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it." Gilles Deleuze


"President-elect Trump seems incapable of experiencing humility. Despite the multiple bankruptcies, the failed businesses, the failed marriages, he seems to maintain an impenetrable self-regard."

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...best-president

It is interesting how Dems can just claim racism and get away with it.