a Gaslight Inaugural
(Inspired by Frida Ghitis’s 10jan17 CNN Opinion piece
Donald Trump is ‘gaslighting’ all of us,
and by DT’s 11jan17 press fiasco.
Sung to a mellow rap beat)
The Donald don’t move like he’s got the body rhythm,
and we’ve never heard him rap, so I writ this rhyme fer’im
Yeah, the DT talks a lot, so loud and kinda mean,
but rarely can one tell what does that DT mean?
It’s a purposeful act this stream of consciousness
he’s used it on TV and to win at his brand business.
Gaslighting means to talk all around the real truth,
and DTs practiced at it from early in his youth.
When you talk in gaslight you say all this and that
and whenever you feel just pull meaning from your hat.
All of his Trumpettes, pretty as can be, tear themselves apart
s’plainin don’t listen to his words, just know what’s in his heart
But for us simple folk all listenin’ from out here,
we can’t see he’s got a heart, we only hear what we hear.
We’ve got us an orange who tells it like it is
but that orange only knows what the meaning of is really is.
Trump’s a faux businessman all image with no substance
yet he’s played all us TV Americans for illiterate dunces.
DT claimed he’d divest but he aint done it yet
and now the latest polls say he’s losin’ street cred.
He said he’d drain the swamp with his # D T S
but with his cabinet nominees that is anybody’s guess.
And those cabinet nominees they are mostly billionaires
none of whom will complete their ethics questionnaires.
Seems his one and favorite way to make our country great again,
is locking bad people up, just throw them in the pen.
He says his crowning party will be a big star show
with lots of party dresses all aglitter and aglow;
but, the last word from Starzville was that A-listers would not go.
And all the dress shops in town say no one’s asking them to sew.
He coulda’ had a bigger party with more folks out to play
if he’d just released his taxes before that fateful day.
Some will say let him be, give the orange man a chance,
that our Halloween leftover deserves his turn at the dance,
but in his latest press conference he made it very clear
that fake news is anything he doesn’t wanna hear.
This rhyme aint about the color tho the hair is fun to dis,
the man’s like a snake his words come out with a hiss.
Besides, how many chances should an orange man get
when he’s dissed most the country and drives wedges ‘tween us yet.
Now here’s some scary questions from just one old white guy:
Could DTs gaslight pulpit get us all blown up sky high?
Our FBI now says that DTs been compromised
He’s been downed and dirtied by them Russian cyber spies.
Crowning’s in a week if all really goes as planned,
once DT swears in, is it all ethics hence be damned?
His solemnly swearing could be an impeachable offense,
meaning we’ll end up with who? I’m guessing Mike Pence?
On 20 January midst all the circumstance and pomp
By swearing in DT will we have added to our swamp?