{"id":407558,"date":"2024-04-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=407558"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Red-Caesarism-Parodies-of-Trump-s-Verities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Red-Caesarism-Parodies-of-Trump-s-Verities\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Caesarism: Parodies of Trump\u2019s Verities"},"content":{"rendered":"

A parody using \u2018Anne Rutledge\u2019 a poem by Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950). Found in Spoon River Anthology.<\/em><\/p>\n

TRUMP the TWIT FULL OF SPIT<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

A GOOGOLPLEX OF LIES<\/p>\n

From me an unknown number of lies<\/p>\n

The very essence of my being<\/p>\n

With malice towards all, charity for none<\/p>\n

From me expulsion of all migrants<\/p>\n

Ridiculing the military heroes of war<\/p>\n

And bringing disgrace to our nation<\/p>\n

Scamming and avoiding justice and truth<\/p>\n

I am Donald J Trump, King of Mar-a-Lago<\/p>\n

Avoided in life by all living US presidents.<\/p>\n

Obsessed with myself and more money<\/p>\n

My prevarication will live on forever!<\/p>\n

My tweets filled with twit and twaddle<\/p>\n

My mouth denigrates the living and dead<\/p>\n

My life an egregious googolplex of lies.<\/p>\n

What follows are two parodies of William Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Sonnet 29. Here are its first two lines and last two lines:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen in disgrace with fortune and men\u2019s eyes<\/p>\n

I all alone beweep my outcaste state, \u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings<\/p>\n

That then I scorn to change my state with kings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Was W.S prescient about DJT or what? My parodies:<\/p>\n

WHEN IN DISGRACE WITH FAKE NEWS\u2026<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

When in disgrace with fake news and lying media\u2019s eyes<\/p>\n

I throw childish temper tantrums about my outcast state<\/p>\n

I grow bald and round and tell many more lies<\/p>\n

Too blind with presidential power to ascertain my fate.<\/p>\n

Wishing only for more golf games and riches I hope<\/p>\n

to use my smarts, the stable genius that only I possess<\/p>\n

conspiring with V. Putin and Russian oligarchs scope<\/p>\n

What I enjoy most is being on my own golf course.<\/p>\n

Despite my being so smart some are still despising<\/p>\n

instinctively I think of me and my Secretary of State<\/p>\n

with the price of Middle East oil per barrel then rising<\/p>\n

from Saudi Arabia up to the Northern Arctic Gates<\/p>\n

liquid largesse for me increasing my wealth and bling<\/p>\n

that then I know I am,\u2018Believe Me\u2019 an American King.<\/p>\n

My PRESIDENCY in DISGRACE in the Nation\u2019s Eyes<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

My Presidency in disgrace in the nation\u2019s Eyes<\/p>\n

I all alone tweet my utterly confused state<\/p>\n

and trouble the generals with baby boy cries<\/p>\n

so sad I\u2019m not bigly making America great.<\/p>\n

Wish I was like that man from a place called Hope<\/p>\n

Articulate like him, a policy wonk and computer nerd<\/p>\n

Desirous and jealous of his ability to speak and cope<\/p>\n

Instead, I belittle and insult others with every word<\/p>\n

Yet in these thoughts filled with self-loathing<\/p>\n

I think of money and how much I\u2019m making<\/p>\n

and obstinately fold my arms inside my clothing<\/p>\n

continuing bombastic demagoguery and faking.<\/p>\n

For bling and bucks remembered on this occasion<\/p>\n

dispel thoughts of going to prison for tax evasion.<\/p>\n

(these two appeared in the<\/em> Saipan Tribune 04\/30\/2018.)<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Joey aka “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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