# The Poetry of Donald J. Trump -- special Stolen Documents Indictment Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [June 9, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259 "2023-06-09T17:52:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/1 "2023-06-09T17:52:47Z")
From that infamous 2021 tape recording, reported today on CNN Secret. This is secret information. Look, Look at this, This was done by the military And given to me. Well, With Milley – uh, Let me see that, I’ll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn’t that amazing? I have a big pile of papers, This thing just came up. Look. This was him, They presented me this – This is off the record, But – They presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department And him. We looked at some. This was him. This wasn’t done by me, This was him. All sorts of stuff – Pages long, Look. Wait a minute, Let’s see here. I just found, Isn’t that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is like, Highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, Look at this. As president, I could have declassified, But now I can’t [https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/politics/trump-tape-didnt-declassify-secret-information/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/politics/trump-tape-didnt-declassify-secret-information/index.html) As Maddowblog says, > [@](#): > > It’s as if satire writers came up with a way to make Trump appear even more guilty. > **[Reports on Trump’s behind-the-scenes tape complicate his defense](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/reports-trumps-scenes-tape-complicate-defense-rcna88581)** > > "As president, I could have declassified," Donald Trump reportedly said on tape about sensitive national security information, "but now I can’t." ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/2 "2023-06-09T22:21:32Z")
BRAVO! And Thanks for bringing back this poetry. I loved it the first time around. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/3 "2023-06-09T22:36:18Z")
It’s very clever. But I have never actually personally attended a live poetry reading. I’m not sure what’s done. I kind of picture snapping fingers in the background. Maybe a bouzouki player. What would be most appropriate for Trump? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/4 "2023-06-09T22:41:42Z")
I always imagine these as the lyrics to a Broadway Musical about DJT produced 50 years from now. This song comes at the end, during his tragic, delusional, spiraling downfall. (“This was him… this was him…”) (There was a pretty good COVID poem in the first thread that would make a good comic-relief song in Act I.) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/5 "2023-06-09T22:43:01Z")
I think you’re on the right track. I also think exuberant and repeated use of the word “huzzah” wouldn’t be inappropriate. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/6 "2023-06-10T17:04:40Z")
For musical accompaniment I would go for a snare drum, quietly swept with brushes and a dripping tap. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/7 "2023-06-10T18:34:37Z")
I can only see that if the huzzahs are voiced by Mike Pence, preferably while staring lovingly at Trump (or reasonable facsimile.) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/8 "2023-06-11T19:19:31Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > And Thanks for bringing back this poetry. I loved it the first time around. Thanks. I’ve wanted to do another one of these for some time now, but you have to use Trump’s spontaneously spoken words. That’s the only form that lends itself to that repetitious “stream of consciousness” blank verse style. Scripted statements, third party statements, or anything written - even Trump’s own tweets – don’t have that quality. When he was in office I could easily find transcripts of his speeches online. But since then I could only find news stories that quoted a sentence or two here or there. To get enough trump speech material for a “poem” I’d have o transcribe it from a YouTube recording myself. And I’m not about to do that. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/9 "2023-06-11T21:41:45Z")
Art requires dedication. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/10 "2023-06-11T21:44:47Z")
Yeah, but I can understand that having to listen to Trump’s words, over and over and over, in Trump’s own voice, could be detrimental to one’s overall well-being… ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/11 "2023-06-11T21:58:16Z")
Yet, it is amazing how much easier it is to read and stomach when classified as pottery. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/12 "2023-06-12T01:33:54Z")
Reminds me of the deranged last words of Dutch Schultz. “A boy has never wept…nor dashed a thousand kim. You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn’t get snappy.” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/13 "2023-06-12T01:50:43Z")
Rosebud … Rosebud. Although I prefer the MAD Magazine version where instead he was pining for the enemas his severe German governess had administered during his formative years, crippling him sexually for life: Hose, Bud … Hose, Bud. One can only hope. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/14 "2023-06-13T14:54:40Z")
Regarding musical accompaniment, I believe in a minimalist approach to this sort of thing. Most of it should be recited in total silence in keeping with the pure beauty of the verse, accompanied only by three solitary notes on a balalaika on every mention of the word “secret”, and the crash of a massive oriental chau gong following each exclamation of “this was him!”. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/15 "2023-06-13T15:35:54Z")
[![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GiK2ODoFL._AC_SL1500_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GiK2ODoFL._AC_SL1500_.jpg) Yes, with slightly fluttering bamboo in the background. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/16 "2023-06-13T16:44:47Z")
That’s an _excellent_ statue. IMO it has one fatal flaw as a likeness. The mouth is closed. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the real thing with his mouth closed. Made it kinda hard to recognize who it represents. I only got it from the context of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/17 "2023-06-13T16:51:42Z")
I’ve been to a few poetry readings. At all of them it was just the poet reading their poems. No instruments or finger snapping, just poetry. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/18 "2023-06-13T18:39:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > That’s an _excellent_ statue. > > IMO it has one fatal flaw as a likeness. The mouth is closed. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the real thing with his mouth closed. You’re right. Furthermore, the person depicted in the statue looks serene and almost intelligent, making it hard to recognize the intended subject. I have modified it to be more recognizable: [![](https://i.imgur.com/RZmzQzI.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/RZmzQzI.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/19 "2023-06-13T19:24:30Z")
I love you even more. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259/20 "2023-06-13T19:29:00Z")
@wolfpup: Needs more orange. But otherwise a significant improvement. Thank you. [aside] While mis-typing “orange” I learned that it’s a near anagram for “outrage”. Coincidence? I think not. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-stolen-documents-indictment-edition/985259.md?page=2)