I don’t like to analyze myself because I might not like what I see – Donald Trump
On buying a beauty spot in Scotland for a golf-course
And for luxury condominiums,
Trump notices some old houses on the horizon
And he orders them bulldozed to oblivion.
On seeing a woman that he desires, he oafishly
Recommends “grabbing her pussy”.
He boasts that, ‘My fame lets me take liberties;
‘My fame allows me to abuse her.’
Trump’s grandfather ran brothels in the Yukon
And to his grandson, people are also for sale.
Trump’s ego tells him he has supernatural powers
And that almost nothing is beyond the pale.
“I will deport 12 million Latinos”, Donald Trump insists –
This buddy of asset strippers and union busters –
A charlatan who papers over his character’s cracks
With bank loans and with megalomaniac bluster.
Trump was a casino owner (a synonym for gangster),
A suitable past for the President of casino capitalism
Who boasts about who he’s been able to shake down,
And who also represents a home-grown neo-fascism.
Trump’s a demagogue who’s prone to magical thinking
With a compulsion to build concrete penises
Upon which his name appears in enormous letters
And whose robotic staff repeat, “he’s a genius”.
He has pretended to be anti-establishment
And to be standing up for the little guy
Yet without Wall Street and the Deutsche Bank
This exhibitionist parasite would die.
He’s a slave to his monumental indebtedness.
He owes 600 million dollars.
But now that he’s President he can pay his creditors,
The mob and their sinister callers –
While doubtless remaining reluctant to pay taxes
For he regards tax evasion as an art.
When challenged about his not filing tax returns
He brags, “That makes me smart.” [1]
He’s risen to power on the magniloquent claim
That he’ll make America great
While representing the lowest common denominator
Of his country’s racist hate.
In 1992 the Casino Control Commission fined him $200,000
For removing African-American card dealers
From his Plaza Hotel’s casino to appease the racism
Of the Plaza’s big-spending gamblers. [2]
Trump would disparage his black casino employees as “lazy”.
“I’ve got black accountants and isn’t it funny?” He’d say,
“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people
“I want are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” [3]
“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino”,
Recalls Kip Brown, an employee at Trump’s Castle,
“The bosses would order all the black people off the floor,”
He told the New Yorker in a 2015 article. [4]
Regarding an African-American President
As an affront to his Aryan sensibility,
Trump became vocal in the ‘Birther’ movement
Questioning Obama’s legitimacy.
Trump failed to disavow the Ku Klux Klan
When they supported his candidacy.
He’d airily pretend he didn’t know who they were
With an ignorance approaching lunacy.
Donald J. Trump has been elected President
Of the US’s plutocratic pornocracy –
A plot twist, and suddenly the whole world
Is having to adjust to his squalid reality.
He believes women should suffer punishment
If they decide to have abortions.
He sees life as conquest and victory and winning,
As if in a childish competition.
In a half-hearted apology for mocking women’s looks
Trump says he does it “to be entertaining” [5] –
Unaware that he himself is overweight and bright orange
And hardly qualifies as an oil painting.
“I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
Says Trump who advocates torture.
“When I say they’ll do as I tell them, they’ll do as I tell them.” [6]
Is how he plans to overcome any legal stricture.
Fifty billion tons of carbon dioxide fall annually
On the earth, causing deadly climate change,
Yet Trump says he’ll cancel the lifesaving treaties
The international community has arranged.
So more earthquakes will be on the horizon
And extreme heat will now be inevitable.
One man’s hot air will have consequences
As air becomes less and less breathable.
“We need some global warming. It’s freezing!
Trump would joke while he was out campaigning
Then America’s Emperor repeats his strident rhetoric
And his insistence “the swamp needs draining.”
He threatens to attack ISIS with nuclear weapons –
To use a nuclear sledgehammer to crack a nut –
Unable to see that every Trump Tower would be
Transformed into a radioactive mud hut.
Donald Trump is really Donald Drumpf,
To give him his ancestral, and risible name.
It suggests dumbness, even the passing of wind
As well as the merciful transience of fame.
Extracted from American Porn by Heathcote Williams, published by Thin Man Press
Together Against Trump 13 July 2018
National Demonstration
Friday 13 July London | Assemble 2pm
BBC Portland Place | London W1A 1AA
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Notes
[1] CNBC, 26 Sep 2016
[2] $200,000 in 1992 Trump was fined $200,000 for this
[3] John R. O’Donnell, James Rutherford, Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump–His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall, Simon & Schuster, 1991
[4] Nick Paumgarten, The Death and Life of Atlantic City, The New Yorker, September 7, 2015
[5] Pema Levy, ‘Trump Says He Mocked Women’s Looks to Be Entertaining’ Mother Jones, Oct. 6, 2016
[6] Tom McCarthy, ‘Donald Trump reverses position on torture’, The Guardian, 4 March 2016