Our Pretend President

Inspired by Harper’s great prompt Pretend

Kathy Jacobs
Resistance Poetry
2 min readMar 15, 2019

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The company that bears his name
Is under investigation
The charity that bears it
Is already shut down
Buildings are shedding it fast

Elected with help
From crooks and liars
He loves oppressors
Wants to be one
Hates women, minorities
Wants them all in their place

It is time for our pretend president
His family, advisors, cabinet
All went down for the things done
While they were leading the country astray

It’s time for Trump
The whole pumpkin patch
To go where Manafort has lead the way

Take the Veep too
He’s in this up to his ears
All of them need to be out
Out of power, out of the White House
So that our country can recover

It’s time to grab our country back
From all those who think
White is might
Money can get you anything
Power is for only a few

Our pretend president
Is familiar with the games he plays
He doesn’t care about the rules
He only cares about himself

The country doesn’t come first
Second or even third
It isn’t what’s important to
The pumpkins in the White House

The pretend president,
His offspring,
His friends,
His cronies
They will go in time.

When they have
The rules need updating
So we never again have
A pretend president

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Kathy Jacobs
Resistance Poetry

💚POMpoet💚 Former software tester, still breaking things. Social Media geek. Former OneNote MVP. Phoenix Mercury fan. Green Bay Packer fan.