The First Day of King Trump

In the first hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave to me
Millions o’ deportees

In the second hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave to me
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

In the third hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave to me
One canal a-taken
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

In the fourth hour of Trumpdom,
My new King gave to me
One gulf renaming
One canal a-taken
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

In the fifth hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave to me
Women’s rights aborted
One gulf renaming
One canal a-taken
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

In the sixth hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave to me
LGBTQ redacted
Women’s rights aborted
One gulf renaming
One canal a-taken
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

In the seventh hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave to me
Tariffs all enacted
LGBTQ redacted
Women’s rights aborted
One gulf renaming
One canal a-taken
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

In the eighth hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave to me
Climate change discarded
Tariffs all enacted
LGBTQ redacted
Women’s rights aborted
One gulf renaming
One canal a-taken
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

In the ninth hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave to me
Fossil fuels a-flowing
Climate change discarded
Tariffs all enacted
LGBTQ redacted
Women’s rights aborted
One gulf renaming
One canal a-taken
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

In the tenth hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave to me
Racist songs a-singing
Fossil fuels a-flowing
Climate change discarded
Tariffs all enacted
LGBTQ redacted
Women’s rights aborted
One gulf renaming
One canal a-taken
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

In the eleventh hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave to me
Anti-racists swinging
Racist songs a-singing
Fossil fuels a-flowing
Climate change discarded
Tariffs all enacted
LGBTQ redacted
Women’s rights aborted
One gulf renaming
One canal a-taken
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

In the twelfth hour of Trumpdom
My new King gave me fascism
Concentration camps a-filling
Anti-racists swinging
Racist songs a-singing
Fossil fuels a-flowing
Climate change discarded
Tariffs all enacted
LGBTQ redacted
Women’s rights aborted
One gulf renaming
One canal a-taken
One border closing
and Millions o’ deportees

On the next days of Trumpdom
My comrades gave to me
A rising of resistance
Blocking deportations
Student demonstrations
Strikes at the workplace
International unity
Just maybe we will not see
What Trumpdom started out to be

Ellen Isaacs is a physician, anti-racist and anti-capitalist activist and co-editor of multiracialunity.org. She can be reached at [email protected].

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