Polimericks

July 28

Headline: Trump Cancels First Pitch at Yankee Stadium

No fans in the stands – still I’d strut out

And throw a pitch fit for a shutout.

But I might come unglued

If I’d been roundly booed

By every cardboard fan cut-out.

July 27

Headline: Trump Threatens to Send Federal Officers to Chicago

Chicago – I’m sending a troop

Of Secret Police to The Loop.

Your mayor’s a Dem.

And worse, one of them:

A woman. And that ethnic group.

July 26

Headline: Summer 2020 – America Can’t Sleep

Four million people infected.

Children and families neglected.

No health care, repression,

And widespread depression.

God help us if he’s re-elected.

July 25

Headline: Birx Warns Florida, Texas, and California as Virus Deaths Soar

According to good Dr. Birx

You people in Texas are jerks.

FL and CA?

Do we still have to say,

“Put on the damn mask, guys. It works!”?

July 24

Headline: Sagging Trump Campaign Goes on Offensive

I’m Donald J. Trump, and I’m desperate,

So I’m giving the country no respite

From threats and from lying,

Ignoring the dying,

And acting like King of the Cesspit.

July 23

Headline: Trump Campaign Advises Change in Tactics

You might get a better result

If you try acting like an adult.

With your polls running short

You will need more support,

And you can’t just rely on your cult.

July 22

Headline: Trump Says Masks are “Patriotic”: Threatens to Send Federal Agents to Chicago and Other Democrat-run Cities

Now Donald has covered his face more

It’s much harder stating his case more.

So he’ll send in police

So that tensions increase

And provoke an exploitable race war.

July 21

Headline: Trump Insists Many Cases are “Sniffles” and claims “I’m Right”

“I’m right!” the Dear Leader has said,

“I have no concern that it’s spread.

Most cases are piffle,

And merely a sniffle,

(Don’t ask me about all the dead..)

July 20

Headline: Masked, Unidentified Officers Arrest Protestors in Portland

In Portland, Trump’s secret police

Are not there for keeping the peace.

They’re just there to terrify,

And doing so, verify

The portrait that’s drawn by his niece.

July 19

Trump Blocks CDC Chief Redfield From Testifying Before Congress

I tell you, it’s all for the best if I

Don’t let Redfield talk. I detest the guy.

What if he acts out

And lets proven facts out?

There’s no way I’m letting him testify.