Forty-five is reversing each gain

“Last year, over 200 anti-LGBT bills were introduced in 34 states, 50 of which targeted trans people specifically. This year will surely see even more—including on the federal level, where it is unknown what bills President-elect Trump will or won’t sign, though it is well-known where his evangelical deputies, such as Vice President-elect Mike Pence and Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos, stand. After a few years of fitful progress, cultural visibility, and executive branch history-making, it’s now open season on transgender Americans. Bathroom bills would be ironic if they weren’t so tragic.” – The Daily Beast

 

 


Forty-five is reversing each gain
with his tactics designed to restrain,
confound and confuse,
restrict and abuse;
it’s a sadly familiar refrain.

© Susan E. Eckenrode, 2017


 

So folks, pay attention now please,

“Amid reports that interpreters are struggling to understand President Donald Trump because ‘it sounds like he’s speaking his own language,’ the ‘Tonight Show’ host unveiled a new (spoof) Rosetta Stone program on Friday.” – Huffington Post

See the full video segment on Huffington Post.

 


 

So folks, pay attention now please,
The president’s speech is a breeze;
need a translator?
Nothing is greater
than Rosetta Stone’s app for Trumpese.

© Susan E. Eckenrode, 2017

 


 

Forty-five’s got himself a phone buddy

“Mr. Jones, in case you aren’t aware, is the conspiracy-theorizing, flame-throwing nationalistic radio and internet star who’s best known for suggesting that Sept. 11 was an inside job, that the Sandy Hook school shooting was “completely fake” and that the phony Clinton child-sex trafficking scandal known as Pizzagate warranted serious investigation (which one Facebook fan took upon himself to do, armed with an AR-15).”

The New York Times

 

 


 

Forty-five’s got himself a phone buddy
he calls up for info to study
and falls hook ‘n line
for Jones’ opine
as his war on real news grows more bloody.

© Susan E. Eckenrode, 2017

 


He’s the president of his own base


#45 at CPAC on Friday:
“…. but the people that you’re watching, they’re not you. They’re largely, many of them are the side that lost. They lost the election. It’s like, how many elections do we have to have? They lost the election.”

He’s the president of his own base
and the rest of us just have to face
that we lost the election
thus we have no connection
to the governance trumpsters embrace.

© Susan E. Eckenrode, 2017

 

Don’t tell me he’s mentally ill


“Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy. It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither).” – Allen Frances

 


Don’t tell me he’s mentally ill,
that humanoid up on the hill
It’s an insult to those
who suffer the throes
of diseases that siphon all will.

© Susan E. Eckenrode, 2017


He complains there’s a media plot (3-link limerick chain)

 

“Donald Trump has sarcastically dismissed women accusing him of sexual misconduct — even as two more came forward with lurid accounts — and denounced ‘an international political and media plot against me’.”

Trump dismisses sex assault claims and slams ‘global plot’
Daily Nation

 


 

He complains there’s a media plot
undermining the greatness he’s wrought,
so he tweets on a whim
boundless praises of him.
He’s America’s dictator-tot!*

© 2017 Susan E. Eckenrode

*Dictator- tot, compliments of Steven Colbert

He’s America’s Dictator-tot
Who will never accomplish a lot
Cause he’s mostly all talk
And will jolly well walk
When he reckons his con has been caught.

© 2017 Lily Beth Baker

When he reckons his con has been caught
he won’t bother addressing the blot
left on history’s page
because naught could assuage
the relentless destruction he wrought.

© 2017 Mary Boren

 

 


Forty-five, the perpetual winner

“I think apologizing’s a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.” -DJT

Forty-five, the perpetual winner
(including at being a sinner)
though barely elected
his ego’s injected
and he’ll never eat crow for his dinner.

© Susan E. Eckenrode, 2017

There seems to be no way of quelling


“It wasn’t long ago that pretty much everyone across the political spectrum could agree that it was embarrassing when our elected officials failed to use the English language correctly. Just ask former vice president Dan Quayle how to spell “potato.”

Yet as critics pounced on the latest errors as a sign of carelessness or incompetence, Trump defenders howled back, blasting the criticism as liberal-elite snobbery. It’s come to this: The fault lines of our deeply divided country have crossed into the once-neutral territory of grammar and spelling.”  

The Trump administration has a spelling problem.
 The Washington Post


There seems to be no way of quelling
His lying and whining and yelling.
Of this I am sure,
But must we endure
His wretched alternative spelling?

© Colleen Anderson, 2017

His wretched alternative spelling
appears not to hurt what he’s selling
to frenetic fans
impressed with his plans
who still find his tweets so compelling.

© Susan Elizabeth


The one thing that gets him to gushin’

“The latest sign of Trump’s infatuation is his refusal to accept the conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community that Russian state-sponsored hackers meddled in our election — a risky and provocative operation that could have been authorized only by Vladimir Putin.”

Why does Trump go googly-eyed for Putin?
The Washington Post

 


The one thing that gets him to gushin’
And turns his fake tan into blushin’
Is across the great blue,
Where Palin can view:
He’s crushin’ on someone who’s Russian.

© Colleen Anderson, 2017

He’s crushin’ on someone who’s Russian
but Putin’s preparing a hushin’.
He knows trump’s a fool
but such a grand tool
to help the bear’s beasties to rush in!

© Susan Elizabeth, 2017

 


 

In a month that is feeling like years

“Four weeks in, the man who says he inherited “a mess” at home and abroad is presiding over a White House that is widely described as itself being a mess.
[…]
Stung by the unrelenting criticism coming his way, Trump dismisses much of it as ‘fake news’ delivered by ‘the enemy of the people’ — aka the press. Daily denunciations of the media are just one of the new White House fixtures Americans are adjusting to.”

– The Associated Press
A Month of the 45th Presidency: Tweets and Turmoil for Trump


 

In a month that is feeling like years
forty-five is still fueling our fears;
it’s the art of the deal
touting fake news as real
while his advocates cover their rears.

© Susan E. Eckenrode, 2017