APRIL 2020, WORST MONTH EVER?

tRump said Thursday

“The dollar is very powerful”

And that is his analysis

Of where we’re going after

The covid paralysis

The fourth quarter

Will be tremendous

In fact it might even be

Absolutely stupendous

Mike Pence made another visit

This time to a GM facility

And he wore a mask

The Mayo flub maybe showed him reality

tRump is threatening

A return to rallying

He misses the stage

And the worship of the mentally ailing

tRUMP TASTING VICTORY

tRump wants to declare victory

Which is a bit tricky

Because the coronavirus

Is still in the vicinity

But that’s not likely

To deter him

He’s spent his life

Stretching the truth real thin

If he says we’re winning

That’s enough for many

They’ll take his word

And enjoy mingling aplenty

Jared said this is

A great success story

You remember Jared

He’s quite a boy

Married to Ivanka

Son-in-law of tRump

He’s standing real high

On the family stump

TOO GOOD FOR A MASK, MIKE?

Mike Pence went to the Mayo Clinic

But didn’t wear a mask

He was concerned his boss

Would take him to task

The Odious Orange Outrage

Considers masks unmanly

The men working for him

Should look ready and randy

Speaking of tRump

He can’t stay off television

He has to have the attention

He has to make a presentation

He’s now ordered meat plants

To not close down

But what if all the workers

Get the covid clown?

Do you really want

An inexperienced worker

Cutting and packing your meat

And maybe including a finger?

PRESIDENTIAL INDECISION

He’s not giving a presser

Then he is giving a presser

The Odious Orange Outrage

Succumbs to narcissistic pressure

A part of him wanted

To listen to wise advice

But the self-adulation part

Had him in a vise

So he had multiple executives

From Walmart and the rest

Extol his alleged accomplishments

Saying he’s definitely the best

A number of executives

Firmly kissed his behind

He patted them on the head

He’s so very kind

For thinking citizens seeing

So many captains of industry

Prostrate themselves before him

Was not very satisfactory

Bottom line is

Despite suggestions of improvement

The five o’clock follies

Are still clown-show entertainment

NO MORE COVID LAUGHS?

The Odious Orange Outrage

May finally be catching on

His ratings aren’t high from love

But from a disaster-loving throng

Most weren’t tuning in

Because they were his fans

Instead they were there to make fun

Of his tiny constantly-moving hands

And his moronic comments and conduct

Which infuriated some

Gave others a good laugh

And which a few took seriously enough

To consider a Lysol bath

So maybe no more

Daily covid shows for him

Wonder what’s next on the agenda

He certainly can’t go long without

An outlet for his mental splendor

DOWN WITH THE POST OFFICE!!

To take the heat off

His medical malpractice

tRump is going after

The United States Post Office

Yeah, those men and women

Who deliver mail to your door

Have roused his wrath

Who knows what for

Perhaps he thinks they’re soldiers

Who should have dodged the draft

Like he did back when

His bone spurs were causing a rash

Or maybe it’s a Bezos thing

Jeff, who has Amazon and the Post

Doesn’t require his paper

To believe in tRump’s boasts

tRump maybe thinks Jeff

Is in a conspiracy

With the Postal Service

To question tRump’s viability

It’s all pretty complicated

But the bottom line is

tRump faults Jeff

For being successful in biz

Without having to file for bankruptcy
As tRump did constantly

PRESIDENT DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN

President Doctor Frankenstein

Wants a light up your butt

That’ll get you outta

Your covid-19 rut

And maybe scarf some bleach

With a tad of Lysol

Nothing like dangerous chemicals

For an unbeatable cure-all

Now he claims he was

Just being sarcastic

Explain sarcasm to a challenged follower

Who just chugged cleaning acid

STOP THE PRESSES!!

Stop the presses

Sunlight kills covid-19

tRump theorizes that the answer

To end the nasty thing

Head out into the sun

Burn yourself good

Get skin cancer

Don’t put on a hood

You’re no longer confined

To your diseased house

Go mingle with crowds

Don’t stop to delouse

As for testing

No longer necessary

If you spend your time in the sun

You’ll be vaccinated for eternity

DO YOU REALLY NEED A HAIRCUT?

tRump doesn’t want

Barber shops opening this week

For the Governor of Georgia, however

His haircut need has peaked

And many of them good ol’ Georgia crackers

Are feeling the same need

They want their haircuts

With deliberate speed

So the debate mounts

More disease and deaths in one camp

While in the other

And increasing cry to revamp

Back to normalcy

And a carefree existence

Leaving behind fear

And a no-haircut existence

tRUMP OPENS MOUTH, INSERTS FOOT

tRump told the Governors

You’re responsible for testing

It’s not my problem

So stop complaining

Hogan of Maryland

Bought tests from South Korea

tRump got mad asking

Why didn’t you get them here?

Hey, tRump

You passed the buck

You now don’t get to complain

So suck it up

And by the way

How about that preliminary study

On hydroxychloroquine

You want to push something else nutty?

MONOLOGIST IN CHIEF

He’s really good reading lists

The Odious Orange Outrage

Plus it enables him

To dominate the stage

He’s equally good at monologues

Of enormous length

Indeed it’s a technique

He’s perfected into a great strength

It helps when you’re the boss

And employees, observers, others

Interrupt at their peril

Knowing that you’re vindictive

And nutty as a squirrel

NEVER HIS FAULT

tRump has identified

Those who botched the Covid response

Naturally he’s not on the list

Nor anyone bearing his resemblance

China, the WHO, Democrats, Governors

He will undoubtedly find more

Never can have too many culprits

That would be a bore

The latest failure made public

Involved the Center for Disease Control

tRump is just beginning to rationalize

This failure by people on his dole

Tomorrow he’ll undoubtedly have

A much better answer

Today his explanation was

That it did not matter

SLIPPERY AS AN EEL

Is this what it’s come to

Covering the Center of Attention?

Waiting for him to

Ruminate, Pontificate, Manipulate

Maybe even, we can only hope, Abdicate

He makes a lot of noise

But most of it is meaningless

What’s left is pretty much

Out and out evilness

He does have a talent that his adversaries

Have not been able to counter

He can blatantly lie

And can avoid having to answer

He’s been doing this

For a very long time

And hasn’t suffered yet

Maybe lost a dime

Some very smart people have tried

To call him to accounts

Thus far their efforts

Haven’t resulted in significant amounts

AVOIDING RESPONSIBILITY IN SPADES

Yep, the Odious Orange Outrage

Is just where he wants to be

Barking from the sidelines

Criticizing Governors for inadequacy

Far easier to jeer

Than to take responsibility

For the sad state of testing

Throughout the country

Fantastic, tremendous, incredible

Are easy words to throw around

When you don’t have to do

Any serious work on the ground

Just blame the Governors

Tell the nation it’s their fault

Claim any problems

Are hoaxes the media brought

tRUMP DOES US A FAVOR

tRump does a one-eighty

Governors will call the shots

He’s taking a back seat

From where he can throw rocks

No point in attempting

A whole bunch of work

When all he gets

Is being called a jerk

Let someone else

Take the hostility and heat

He’d rather be on the sidelines

Offering sarcastic critique

Actually the nation is better off

Most Governors are playing with a full deck

The Odious Orange Outrage on the other hand

Is a walking talking train wreck

POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK

“It would have been so easy to be truthful”

Were the words that slipped from

Perhaps the most prolific liar

To have ever seen the sun

The Odious Orange Outrage

Was speaking negatively

About the World Health Organization

His latest target of opportunity

Talk about the perfect example

Of the pot calling the kettle black

You certainly can’t get any closer

Than tRump’s ridiculous crack

More than fifteen thousand lies

In a mere three years

In the rankings of world-class liars

He has absolutely no peers

DAILY AIRING OF GRIEVANCES

First, the Odious Orange Outrage

Attacked the World Health Organization

His latest target

In his war to preserve his reputation

Which at this point

Is pretty much dirt

In the thinking portion of the nation

That is even semi-alert

tRump then read

A lengthy almost endless list

Of business and economic leaders

He claimed were bumping his fist

Wonder how many of them said

“Hey, I ain’t on this team

This guy’s a whacko

I’m not part of his scheme”

BENT OUTTA SHAPE

The Odious Orange Outrage

Is really bent outta shape

He’s so distracted by criticism

That he’s about to gravitate

He says it’s his decision

When the country will reopen

The Constitution and some Governors

Have another opinion

You can be sure tRump

Will not react well

To any questioning of his authority

He’ll fight to the gates of hell

The media will not likely

Let the matter rest

Prodding and poking tRump

Is what they do best

TEA PARTY’S CONTRIBUTION

The last decade’s tea party tantrum

Resulted in significant government reductions

One of them being in public health funding

Reductions now threatening government functions

Thus the nation stumbled

Into the 2020 pandemic

Woefully unprepared

And led by a semi-maniac

Yeah, government can seem oppressive

But that’s the price you pay

For being ready for crises

The free market can’t hold at bay

The tea party took us down

A very very dark road

Ideologues enamored of

Excessive freedom and little tax load

“BIGGEST DECISION”

tRump is pondering

Serious drama queen stuff

The “biggest decision” of his presidency

That sounds really rough

His previous “biggest decision”

Was McDonald’s versus fried chicken

Has that prepared him

For life and death selecting?

The real drama won’t surface until

The decision is announced to the nation

That event will require

An appropriately grandiose presentation

EMPTY METRIC

tRump was asked what metrics

He would use in a decision on re-opening

He pointed to his skull

Which was far from reassuring

If there’s a perfect void in the universe

It sits upon his neck

The definition of quantum emptiness

Begins with that orange-covered wreck

It’s not that he’s stupid

The truth is far more murky

His smartness rests on the ability

To utter meaningless drivel unceasingly

But the extent of this ability

Overrides logic and rationality

Rendering the contents of his brain

Of absolutely zero quality

AMERICAN LEADERSHIP

America was known for leadership

But that was before the Republican degeneration

Gingrich, Bush Two, Cheney, McConnell

Spiraling downward until the corruption

Of the tRump Administration

Can such a failed party

Lead a national recovery

From a pandemic

And economic scurvy

Or must that party first

Start the painful process

Of replacing the brain-dead leadership

That got us in this mess

BS LEVEL

The BS level

In tRump’s exhortations

Is an insult to our intellect

And contrary to our historical expectations

No other President

Has been such a verbal disaster

Treating words and facts

As having no connection whatsoever

How did our public discourse

Fall to such a nadir?

Is it because Republicans in general

Have been a three-decade disaster?

Or is it particular

To the Odious Orange Outrage

And his insatiable desire

To be perpetually at center stage?

NEVER STOP ATTACKING

tRump claims he was in the construction business

But have you seen those pasty hands?

The only thing they’ve constructed

Is multiple wedding bands

The World Health Organization

Is his latest target for blame

Indeed WHO may have caused

The whole coronavirus thing

“I’m a cheerleader for the country”

Which is why he lies like a dog?

Why he’s irredeemably corrupt?

Why he’s a greedy hog?