Category: Trump Coverage W/Poetry

AN IMPORTANT ANOUNCEMENT

11/7/2022

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: If you access our "Featured Poems of the Week" and/or any other links on our site via Twitter (@The_Dickinson), please note that we will be deleting our Twitter account as of SUNDAY, 11/20/22 (THIS IS AN UPDATE) AS WE REFURSE TO BE A PART OF A PLATFORM WHERE MISINFORMATION IS POSTED BY THE KU KLUX KLAN'S IMPERIAL GRAND WIZARD, DONALD TRUMP.

If you would like to check things out from time to time in the future, you can either bookmark our site -- OR -- you can find our curator, James Asher, at CounterSocial. His account name there is @Route10.

If you are not horrified by the corruption and deceit of the GOP, then you are most definitely "part of the problem" as they say -- and of course, one current problem that reflects the GOP's efforts to disseminate misinformation and gaslight the public is what is going on at Twitter.

Twitter is now a cesspool of alternative "facts" and twisted inaccuracies spewed by unethical and evil Republicans who are determined to destroy our democracy in the hopes of establishing a "Christian"-based authoritarian regime.

As a result, I am going to leave Twitter at the end of the year. I have created an account on Counter Social, @Route10.

Therefore, if you access our "Featured Poems of the Week" via links on Twitter, then please know that those links will cease to be available as of January 1, 2023.

Instead, if you'd like to continue to peruse our "Featured Poems" on a weekly basis after January 1, you can either access links that I will post on Counter Social -- OR -- you can bookmark this page and give it a look-see every Sunday.

In response to the current Twitter cesspool -- and the possibility that Elon Musk will reverse the lifetime ban of Imperial Grand Wizard Donald Trump -- and the platform will become nothing more than a modern-day message board for the Klan -- I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "If he comes back I wait to See!" below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired his third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Before He comes we weigh the Time!" below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

If he comes back I wait to See!
‘Tis Heavy and not Right.
Then I’ll depart, his Pettiness
Is the prevailing Plight.

By Emily Dickinson:

Before He comes we weigh the Time!
'Tis Heavy and 'tis Light.
When He depart, an Emptiness
Is the prevailing Freight.

Blue Wave . . . or Toxic Red Tide?

10/31/2022

The mid-term election occurs in less than two weeks. Do you predict a refreshing Blue Wave to support all that Joe Biden is doing to save our democracy? Or do you think there will be a toxic Red Wave brought on by GOP misinformation and obstruction of the truth?

In hopes of a refreshing Blue Wave, I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's "Our Reward for Voting, is This" (below on the left). His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "My Reward for Being, was This" (below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Our Reward for Voting, is This.
Our democracy – Our Soul –
And admirably, more –
Our Freedoms – protected –
And Rights – in Store –

When Thugs accost our Land –
With “Us Vs. Them” –
I beseech Thee –
Their poison’s powerless – by voting Blue –
Election – Vote –
The Ballots of Democracy will shut them down.

By Emily Dickinson:

My Reward for Being, was This.
My premium – My Bliss –
An Admiralty, less –
A Sceptre – penniless –
And Realms – just Dross –

When Thrones accost my Hands –
With "Me, Miss, Me" –
I'll unroll Thee –
Dominions dowerless – beside this Grace –
Election – Vote –
The Ballots of Eternity, will show just that.

Below: Will the mid-term elections bring on a refreshing Blue Wave or a toxic Red Tide?

Of course, in recent speeches Biden has spoken the truth about the Ultra MAGA GOP neo-Nazi Fascists -- and of course, since "TRUTH" is Kryptonite to the GOP, the neo-Nazi Fascists have gone crazy that Biden dares to identify them as neo-Nazi Fascists.

"Biden is so divisive," they all bark and yap -- but you know that old saying "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...."

Of course, the neo-Nazi Fascists spread nothing but heinous messages of hatred for all who do not adopt their desire to replace democracy with religious-based authoritarianism to advance white supremacy -- they even threaten Civil War and violence in the streets if/when Imperial Grand Wizard Trump is indicted for his crimes (quite a message from the party of "law and order" and "back the Blue").

In tribute to Biden for speaking the truth, I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's "How grave their heinous message is" below of the left. Dickinson's poem inspired his third cousin Emily to pen her poem "The grave my little cottage is," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

How grave their heinous message is,
Of “Cleaning house” of thee
They tweet their hogwash openly
And warn of war with glee

For we’re divided, truly
A cycle, it may be,
Till common sense and truth unite
Our strong society.

By Emily Dickinson:

The grave my little cottage is,
Where "Keeping house" for thee
I make my parlor orderly
And lay the marble tea.

For two divided, briefly,
A cycle, it may be,
Till everlasting life unite
In strong society.

Picture Perfect

9/1/2022

The White House Historical Association released today the official portrait of Third Lady Melania Trump, and it released two possible paintings to be hung as the official portrait of Imperial Grand Wizard Donald Trump. One shows the hateful side of Trump's defective personality where he is hissing like a snake. The other shows an even more despicable side of Trump where he is mocking a disabled person.

The WHHA is going to have MAGA morons vote on which portrait of Trump will be selected.

Below left and right: Which painting of Trump do you think best captures the heinousness that is the Imperial Grand Wizard?

Below: The WHHA released the official portrait of Third Lady Melania Trump and said that it would hang in the Boobie Bungalow Gentlemen's Club on 14th Street in Washington, DC.

In tribute to the new official portraits, we have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "Portraits of two hateful faces," below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Portraits are to daily faces," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Portraits of two hateful faces
As they Mock and Twist,
To a tee, erratic nightmare –
And a strumpet’s Pole!

By Emily Dickinson:

Portraits are to daily faces
As an Evening West,
To a fine, pedantic sunshine –
In a satin Vest!

Tax Loophole in One

7/31/2022

Remember that old nursery rhyme "There was a crooked man"? Well, the man in that verse is as straight as a prairie horizon when compared to Donald Trump because ol' Shifty Don is about as crooked as they come!

Now I'm not one to repeat gossip -- as they say -- so you'll have to listen (or in this case, read) closely the first time: Word on the street is that Ivana Trump was about to come forward with some, shall we say, very fascinating information on The Donald, so he had her offed.

And then what'd he do?

He planted her by the first hole in one of his dumpy golf clubs (well, I assume the gold club is dumpy. I've never been there, but I did visit his dumpy casino in Atlantic City years ago before it went six-feet under) -- and the kids are afraid to say anything thinking that someone just might push them down the stairs too.

So Trump provides poor old Ivana with a one-way ticket to his golf club, re-cans the beans she was about to spill, and scores a tax loophole in one. Take a look at this:

The whole sordid affair reminds me of Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "The Stimulus, beyond the Grave," below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired his third cousin to pen her poem with the same opening line, below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

The Stimulus, beyond the Grave
He's Counting on to see
With tax breaks like imperial Drams
Afforded Royalty.

By Emily Dickinson:

The Stimulus, beyond the Grave
His Countenance to see
Supports me like imperial Drams
Afforded Royally.

For another poem related to Ivana Trump's mysterious death and bizarre grave site, click HERE.

Golf Widower

7/30/2022

Just when you think that the Trump family can't get any more grotesque, they lower the bar and prove that yes, yes they can outdo their ghoulish ways.

In this case, Trump planted the remains of his first wife, Ivana, near the first hole at one of his golf courses in New Jersey.

I'll admit, I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist, but I'm hearing an awful lot of talk that Trump had her murdered (was she about to come out with some dirt on "The Donald"?), and then he and his family of ghouls disposed of the body as quickly as possible -- and since they planted her at the golf course, the property -- now classified as a cemetery -- qualifies for tax break. Sweet!

A picture of the grave site is below, and I hear that the landscaping was done by none other than Trump's third wife, has-been porn star Melania Trump.

You just can't make this stuff up, folks.

This whole affair called to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem, "My grave upon the golf course is," below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired his third cousin Emily to pen her poem, "Thy grave my little cottage is," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

My grave upon the golf course is,
Where “Keeping house” is key
I make my sand trap orderly
So they can lay their tee.

Now we’re divided, briefly,
A cycle, it may be,
Till everlasting fire unites
My grotesque family.

By Emily Dickinson:

The grave my little cottage is,
Where "Keeping house" for thee
I make my parlor orderly
And lay the marble tea.

For two divided, briefly,
A cycle, it may be,
Till everlasting life unite
In strong society.

For another poem related to Ivana Trump's mysterious death and bizarre grave site, click HERE.

Lie of the Land

6/19/2022

There is no greater threat to our democratic republic than Donald Trump and the Republican Party. They literally attempted a coup to overthrow our government on live TV on January 6, 2021 – based on “The Big Lie” – and all too slowly, the truth is coming out.

Read this chilling account from the Los Angeles Times, HERE: "Inside the MAGA world scramble to produce finding suggesting the 2020 election was stolen."

The Jan 6th committee hearings produced this: Judge David Carter wrote in a scathing 44-page order, “The illegality of the (Trump) plan was obvious. Our nation was founded on the peaceful transition of power, epitomized by George Washington laying down his sword to make way for democratic elections. Ignoring this history, President Trump vigorously campaigned for the Vice President to single-handedly determine the results of the 2020 election. As Vice President Pence stated, ‘no Vice President in American history has ever asserted such authority.’ Every American—and certainly the President of the United States—knows that in a democracy, leaders are elected, not installed. With a plan this ‘BOLD,’ President Trump knowingly tried to subvert this fundamental principle.”

Through the Jan 6th Hearings we also learned that Trump attorney, John Eastman, attempted to get a Presidential Pardon following his role in the treasonous plan. @CvilleHlthCare tweeted, “If John Eastman doesn't end up doing prison time after all that we learned today, it will normalize coup attempts and we will no longer live in a functioning democracy. And it will likely mean that nobody else is held to account.”

Joy-Ann Reid of MSNBC pointed out that we were “one Mike Pence away from a coup” – and of course, Trump had planned to kidnap the Vice President on January 6th so that Chuck GrASSely could handle the electoral college vote certification.

Did you see the tweet from @rollcall on January 5th?

THAT’S BECAUSE PENCE WAS TO HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED – BUT HE KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP AND HE REFUSED TO GET INTO THE LIMOUSINE!

All of this is so very chilling -- and what is more alarming is that insurrectionists who supported Trump's attempted coup are still serving in Congress and some are sitting on the Supreme Court!!!

To paraphrase that line from the movie Ghost, "Liberty, you in trouble, girl!"

In response to the recent televised hearings based on the January 6th investigation, I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "To live the lie -- was Power" below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "To be alive -- is Power," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

To live the lie – was Power –
Existence – for himself –
Without the legal sanction –
Ambitiousness – Enough –

To live the lie – he Did!
Enabled by his Fraud –
The Liar – he Himself – in smut –
It was his Habitude!

By Emily Dickinson:

To be alive – is Power –
Existence – in itself –
Without a further function –
Omnipotence – Enough –

To be alive – and Will!
'Tis able as a God –
The Maker – of Ourselves – be what –
Such being Finitude!

Remember when Trump said he'd "drain the swamp"? In reality, he is the swamp.

King Louis XIV of France once said, “L’État, c’est moi.” For Trump it would be, "Le marais, c’est moi" -- for he is the living embodiment of the swamp -- or the "smut" as described in Dickinson's poem. Trump is the King of the Swamp, and he is surrounded by nothing but despicable swamp critters -- and they nearly brought about the demise of our government, our free society, and our way of life.

Donald Trump needs to be arrested, tried, convicted, and brought before a firing squad. Isn't that how our Founding Fathers would have handled such a treasonous act?

And speaking of our Founding Fathers, happy Father's Day!

MOB Rule

6/28/2021

One of the worst odors I ever smelled was at a gas station in Ohio due to the pig farm next door. This past weekend, and even worse stink wafted from Ohio, and that was due to the GOP Klan Rally in support of Grand Wizard Trump.

The GOP has literally lost its mind.

They have been taken in by a criminal grifter, and it is just unbelievable how RepubliQans have rallied behind this con man -- especially in the face of his coup attempt to overthrow our government through his planned insurrection on January 6, 2021. Now it is simply incredible how the GOP is attempting to re-write history by characterizing the attack on our Capitol as just "another day" with tourists.

This past week Nancy Pelosi announced that a select committee will investigate the attack since the Party of Putin blocked a bipartisan commission to get at the truth. Of course, the GQP blocked the investigation -- because some (many?) of them were in on the planning -- and because TRUTH is like Kryptonite to right wing nut jobs. They cannot support nor tolerate the truth.

In tribute to the GOP's cowardice, I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's "The mob within D.C." below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem, "The mob within the heart," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

The mob within D.C.
Police could not suppress
The riot sanctioned at the top
And authorized as just

Incredible the scene
In savagery and sound
But now they veil the hurricane
On their congressional ground.

By Emily Dickinson:

The mob within the heart
Police cannot suppress
The riot given at the first
Is authorized as peace

Uncertified of scene
Or signified of sound
But growing like a hurricane
In a congenial ground.

Out of Commission

6/1/2021

I had absolutely no idea how fragile our democracy is (is it too early to say "was"?) -- but I had no idea that one of our major parties, the GOP, would work so vigorously to destroy our government. Oh, I've known for many years that their self-proclaimed monopoly on "family values" was a thin disguise, but I didn't think they would be complicit in a Russian-puppet's seditious attempt to over-throw our fair and free presidential election. I didn't think they would back that same traitor's "big lie." I didn't think that they would obstruct a bi-partisan commission to get to the bottom of that same con-man's coup attempt last January -- most likely because a number of our current GOP senators and representatives were in on the planning for the insurrection. It is all truly shocking.

Trump must grin like an orange Cheshire cat every time the GOP covers up his crimes. He must thank God that MAGAts are so incredibly naive and stupid.

Due to the GOP's duplicitous dealings with one of history's most extreme con artists, I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's "Of GOP he asks one favor" below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her pome "Of God we ask one favor," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Of GOP he asks one favor,
That he may be forgiven –
For what, he most certainly knows –
His Crime, from us, is hidden –
Although they took one Life
So he should go to Prison
They cover up his Nastiness
That too completes this Villain.

By Emily Dickinson:

Of God we ask one favor,
That we may be forgiven –
For what, he is presumed to know –
The Crime, from us, is hidden –
Immured the whole of Life
Within a magic Prison
We reprimand the Happiness
That too competes with Heaven.

Lie Detractors

5/29/2021

Donald Trump was the most corrupt man to occupy the White House in our nation's history. Then, to top it off, he incited an insurrection in an attempt to overthrow our free and fair presidential election. I truly cannot understand why he hasn't been arrested -- and I will never understand why the GOP did not convict him during his unprecedented second impeachment trial. Now he continues to spread "the big lie," and the GOP members of congress are lining up behind him up. It is truly frightening. The GOP is not honing their skills to mount another coup -- they are conducting an overthrow of our government in real time right before our eyes. GOP reps in congress and GOP politicians in states across the country are setting the stage so that -- where and when they can -- they will suppress the vote and overthrow free and fair elections to maintain their control and power. I NEVER thought I'd see this in my lifetime, but the GOP is the true enemy to democracy. They are the true enemy of the people.

Even more absurd: Not only are the GOP members of Congress backing Trump with "the Big Lie," they are augmenting the lie with lies of their own -- stating that the insurrection on January 6th was like any other ordinary day in the US Capitol -- that the MAGA terrorists were just ordinary tourists taking a look around. Of course they are obstructing a commission to investigate the attempted coup to overthrow our government -- THE GOP WAS IN ON THE PLANNING! They are the enemy within -- and they cannot afford to let the truth come out!

In response to Trump's and the GOP's "Big Lie," I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "The lied for duty, and was scarce" below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "I died for beauty, but was scarce," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

They lied for duty, and was scarce
Adjusted in the news
When he who lied for truth was praised
In their adjoining schmooze

He questioned falsely why he’d lost
“Our duty,” they supplied.
“For I am truth – it’s true I’d won
We burdened are,” he cried

And so, as Klansmen meet at night,
They staged their sordid acts
Until the mess had reached their base
And covered up the facts.

By Emily Dickinson:

I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed ?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth, — the two are one ;
We brethren are," he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.

Below on the left: Emmett Lee Dickinson's "Tell all the Truth but they just can't," an ode tot he GOP. Below on the right: Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant."

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Tell all the Truth but they just can’t –
Success for Them is lies
The con-man’s pitch informs the Deal
The Truth’s new foul disguise

“The Big Lie” to the Nation told
With exploitation fanned
The Truth just withers gradually
Till finally it’s banned –

By Emily Dickinson:

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind –

A Man of Conviction (Hopefully)

2/8/2021

Hopefully, enough RepubliQans in the Senate will grow backbones overnight so that they will vote to convict Donald Trump of his crimes related to his attempt to overthrow our government with a mob of angry and seditious MAGAts.

Lady G. was right when he tweeted, "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." I don't expect Lady G to summon up enough courage to vote to convict, though. He's carried Trump's balls on the golf course one too many times to think otherwise.

Our nation was nearly destroyed by Trump -- but the fact of the matter is, though, that he was enabled to do so by the GOP (or should I say QOP? GQP? GOPQ?).

Sadly, most RepubliQan senators are so far down the QAnon rabbit hole that they would rather abandon our constitution and transform our democratic republic into a Banana RepubliQ headed by a grifter.

If inciting an insurrection to overthrow our government is not extreme enough to warrant conviction, then what the (insert the expletive of your choice here) is?

In honor of the Democratic party’s courage to do what is right – and in hopes that enough RepubliQans will break ranks and join them – I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson’s poem “A Criminal conviction” below on the left.

Dickinson’s poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem “The Chemical conviction,” below of the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

A Criminal conviction
Should NOT be lost
Enabled by the Asses
Who fractured Trust –

How Outrageous the Items
If we shall see
How much they sanction Treason
Depresses me!

By Emily Dickinson:

The Chemical conviction
That Nought be lost
Enable in Disaster
My fractured Trust –

The Faces of the Atoms
If I shall see
How more the Finished Creatures
Departed me!