‘Haiku of Trump’ Explores the Isms

"Hilarious!" –– Mary Roach (author of "Grunt," "Stiff," "Gulp," "Spook," "Bonk," and "Packing for Mars")

by Bill Doughty––

After more than a decade of doing this blog, I took more than a month off to write a book, my first. It’s now available on Amazon Kindle: “Haiku of Trump: The Chasm, Schism & Isms of Donald J. Trump” (Fenwick, 2020; 236 pages; ISBN 978-1-7356866-7-7)

Unintentional haiku are discovered in the public words of the 45th president of the United States from before and during his presidency. The haiku in this collection may not be poetry, but they can be enlightening and entertaining. They reveal the character, personality, and behavior Commander in Chief Donald J. Trump –– as well as his legacy.

“Haiku of Trump" captures Trump's denialism, explaining his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic; authoritarianism, spotlighting his fomenting of racial inequality; charlatanism, revealing his years of corruption; sadism, unveiling his brutality and his enemy list; and narcissism, showing the depth of his pettiness and self-hatred projected onto others.

From Chapter 1, Denialism:

We are getting great

marks for the handling of the

CoronaVirus

(Twitter; 10 May 2020) 

From Chapter 2, Authoritarianism:

And we will assume

control but, when the looting

starts, the shooting starts

(Twitter; 28 May 2020)

From Chapter 3, Charlatanism:

I grab and grab and

grab. You know I get greedy.

I want money, money

(Las Vegas, NV; 23 Feb 2016)

From Chapter 4, Sadism:

Had the honor of
firing Jim Mattis, the world’s

most overrated 

(Twitter; 3 Jun 2020) 

From Chapter 5, Narcissism:

Sorry losers and 

haters, but my I.Q. is 

one of the highest

(Twitter; 8 May 2013) 

“Haiku of Trump” shows how Trump cheats at business, with women, and for Russia –– so he can keep the reigns (his word) of power. He thinks George Floyd is lucky because employment numbers are up. He thinks he looks like the Lone Ranger when he wears a mask. He thinks he's in love for Kim Jong Un. And, he thinks he should brag when he aces a dementia test.

This book is both a best-of and worst-of Trump collection of his views on Barack, McCain, Kamala, Ivanka, Megyn, Vladimir and scores of other people. 

McChrystal got fired

like a dog ... total bust ... known

for his big, dumb mouth

(Twitter; 1 Jan 2019)

Read haiku about walking down a ramp, playing golf, messing with the Post Office, and justifying conspiracies like birtherism and QAnon.

This is a book of humor and horror –– for all “losers and haters.”

In the book's afterword, I explain the inspiration for discovering haiku and compare Donald J. Trump in 2020 to Richard M. Nixon in 1970. Of all the isms presented in this book, the most important is "optimism." Despite fear, division, and existential challenges, we can come together to build a better future.

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