Jimmy Kimmel is back! Hurray!
He never should have been suspended.
But Trump's attempts to stifle any
Criticism hasn't ended.

Trump seems to get great pleasure
Watching Americans lose their jobs
While HE gives tax breaks to the wealthy
And fraternizes with the nobs.

The man's so terribly insecure
That he is unable to take a joke.
Anyone who voted for him
Really "bought" a pig in a poke.

To silence the voice of anyone
Who's witty enough to make us laugh
At Trump and his ridiculousness--
Along with the craziness of his staff--

Is out of the playbook of dictators.
Trump's idols have all done the same:
Putin, Orbán, and Erdoğan
Are all in the autocrats hall of fame.

Since tyrant Trump will NOT allow
Anyone to criticize him
And calls them anti-American,
He just makes more people despise him.

Let's all give three cheers for Jimmy
And not give in to intimidation.
Trump is the one who needs to be muffled;
Kimmel deserves a standing ovation.

-by Bob B (9-27-25)

If Trump has a goal to be respected,
It is very far out of reach,
For he has disgusted the world again--
This time with his U.N. speech.

For someone to sound like a narcissist,
He definitely takes the prize.
His almost an hour-long speech became
A litany of bald-faced lies.

Asked to speak only 15 minutes,
He chose to ignore the request. Not strange.
Touching on the economy,
Immigration, and climate change,

He berated world leaders
And spoke of the wonderful things he's done.
He said he ended seven wars--
Another tale that the spinner has spun.

Of course, he had to criticize
The previous administration.
How can he not see that he
Himself is the real abomination?

His message--Christian nationalistic
At times--was hardly unifying.
In fact, his creepy, bombastic words
Were ultimately world-denying.

He also complained of sabotage--
In typically Trump-like fashion--
Of the escalator and teleprompter.
The far-right jumped on that with passion.

As it turned out, the malfunctions
Were caused by members of Trump's own team.
More examples of carelessness
Existing within the Trump regime?

Foreigners ask if we know how
Embarrassing Trump looks. We do.
They feel that he's stark raving mad.
All we can say is, "That's so true."

-by Bob B (9-24-25)

Now that Charlie Kirk is dead,
Christian nationalists will ask
If they can make him a Christian martyr.
Would that be a worthwhile task?

To make a martyr of a man
Who while debating stirred up hate
Would be a slap in the face to all
The people he would denigrate.

Radicalizing college students,
Kirk was clear about his goals:
Normalizing bigotry
And feeding ideas to far-right trolls.

His widow said that she forgave
Her husband's killer--a righteous pose.
But Trump used Kirk's memorial
To threaten his political foes.

He and others lie and say
That Charlie Kirk's assassination
Was a left-wing conspiracy--
A false, divisive accusation.

It's true that Kirk fit right in with
The MAGA world, and that's no bluff.
But there are some who think that he
Wasn't radical enough.

Racist Christo-fascists will now
Exploit Kirk's death to plan and scheme
To make his already over-the-top
Ideas even more extreme.

Trump will continue to placate far-right
Extremist groups. The hate will spread.
And people will ask, "How could this happen?"
While they're burying the dead.

-by Bob B (9-22-25)

Because of the boarish president,
Who grabs more power every day
And cannot handle criticism,
More firings are underway.

The current victim, Jimmy Kimmel,
Has been fired by ABC
Because of the man in the Oval Office--
The power-hungry SOB.°

So insecure is Donald Trump
That he'll put pressure on any station
And threaten to take its license away--
Another form of *******.

Trump's oligarchs will soon
Control all media outlets, and so
Our right of freedom of expression
Will be dealt a heavy blow.

Benjamin Franklin was asked what type
Of government we had. He said,
It's "a republic--if we can keep it."
But that's now hanging by a thread.

Most Republicans don't mind
Trump's tactics--his strong-arming.
They have ceded their power to him.
That is terribly alarming.

-by Bob B (9-19-25)

°an acronym that Trump uses frequently in referring to other people

If someone builds a multimillion-dollar
Fortune teaching folks to scorn and fear
People who are different from them,
Is that person one we should revere?

And if that person uses racist language
That white supremacists all love to use
And ties himself to Christian nationalists
With whom he shares extreme, repulsive views

And calls our many immigrants invaders,
Thus stirring up contempt, disdain, and dread,
And also says he has a preference
For the days when gays were ****** till dead

And normalizes bigotry and hatred,
Should that person then be idolized?
It seems to me that there would be more reasons
For him to be distrusted and despised.

If that person lacks the decency
To care about the people whom he slights
And says that violence is very often
Necessary to protect our rights

And later he becomes the hapless victim
Of the violence that he promoted,
It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy:
To die from views to which one is devoted.

They say the dead should not be talked about
With words of malice; we should be forgiving.
But should someone be glorified in death
If he was reprehensible while living?

-by Bob B (9-16-25)

Folks on the Right are up in arms.
Frankly, they are going berserk
After the death of one of their
Provocateurs, Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was mired in controversy.
His death was tragic, nonetheless.
But Trump is wildly lashing out
Instead of trying to decompress.

He's NOT decrying violence
In ALL forms. Instead, he chooses
To tear into people with vengeance and hatred--
A strategy he always uses.

He and his fawning admin team--
Mostly grounded in wild delusions--
Before they even know all the facts,
Are quick to jump to crazy conclusions.

When asked about domestic attacks,
Trump didn't even pause.
He said that far-right perpetrators
Promote, of course, a worthy cause.

It's folks on the Left, he said, who are
The evil ones and must be stopped.
What will the new authoritarian
Measures be that he'll adopt?

People have been fired from jobs
For merely having expressed their views
Regarding Kirk and his agenda.
That has been all over the news.

Trump will demonize his critics,
But will he focus on reason? Never.
We HAVE TO stress the truth and facts
In this country more than ever.

-by Bob B (9-13-25)

(This poem could be sung to the melody of Tom Lehrer's song "An Irish Ballad: Rickety Tickety Tin.")

A dangerous person is on the loose--
Sing wackety-tackety-tame.
A dangerous person is on the loose.
He carries around a hangman's noose.
The government won't tell him vamoose.
RFK Jr.'s° his name--
His name--
RFK Jr.'s his name.

Conspiracy theories he knows well--
Sing wackety-tackety-tame.
Conspiracy theories he knows well.
Like rotten fish they really smell.
In such a world he likes to dwell.
He plays a dangerous game--
A game--
He plays a dangerous game.

He tells lies about vaccines--
Sing wackety-tackety-tame.
He tells lies about vaccines,
And he'll resort to any means
To blow our health to smithereens.
And he will be surely to blame--
To blame--
And he will be surely to blame.

Ah, and this is one of his faves--
Sing wackety-tackety-tame.
Ah, and this is one of his faves:
That cancer is caused by Wi-Fi waves.
By using it we dig our graves.
That's what he's trying to claim--
To claim--
That's what he's trying to claim.

That shootings are linked to prescription drugs--
Sing wackety-tackety-tame.
That shootings are linked to prescription drugs
Is one more crazy idea he plugs.
From co-conspirators he'll get hugs.
At science they like to take aim--
Take aim--
At science they like to take aim.

Fluoride causes cancer, says he--
Sing wackety-tackety-tame.
Fluoride causes cancer, says he,
And AIDS isn't caused by ***.
But leading experts disagree.
They are not out to get fame--
Get fame--
They are not out to get fame.

People will die because of him--
Sing wackety-tackety-tame.
People will die because of him.
With him in charge our future looks dim.
"Wack job" is his synonym,
And he has no feelings of shame--
Of shame--
And he has no feelings of shame.

-by Bob B (9-12-25)

°Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services