Author: mtc9393

At first his silence was astounding. The man who rapidly responds with insults to his opponents – “Lyin’ Ted” – “Little Marco” – “a very low energy kind of guy” (Bush)  – “look at that faceI Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president”(Fiorina)  – “Crooked Hillary” –…

I wrote about this yesterday. Trump has to be the best of everything even if it is meaningless. He sent his press secretary out at his first press conference to angrily spout out several lies for the purpose of making believe that Trump had the most people attend his inauguration and that he received overwhelming…

Did you see Sean Spicer’s press conference on Saturday afternoon? It was scary, really scary. I’m not kidding. I must admit I’ve never quite seen anything like it unless it was Trump’s speech to the CIA earlier that day. I can only say these dudes have serious problems with the truth. Or is there a…

In his inauguration speech Trump spelled out a vision of America that could only be set out by a man who knows nothing about what America is about. It is the type of speech that could only be given by a man who never gave anything to his country but only thought of making money…

I saw this photograph and read an article in the Economist that brought chills to me. It is a triptych painting featuring Mr Trump, Vladimir Putin and the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen. It was in the middle of a room in Moscow. The article noted that “many in Moscow herald [Trump’s] populist, isolationist message as a…

Donald Trump was asked whether he had any heroes.  He said no. He then went on to talk about his father and himself. Reading that I was inspired to compose this elegy for him done with apologies to Sir Walter Scott. The use of the term elegy is as a “serious meditative poem.” Samuel Taylor…