To the editor:
What follows are the latest verses.
Some background info: Trackdown is a TV western starring Robert Culp that was broadcast on CBS between 1957 and 1959. The May 9, 1958 episode (The End of the World) features a rabble-rousing doomsayer named Trump who scares the townsfolk by claiming disaster is on its way. Trump says he is the only one who can save the people. His method… to build a wall. The full episode can be viewed on YouTube.
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native Americans in the US from their ancestral homelands, which began after President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease and starvation while en route to their new designated reserve, and many died before reaching their destinations. Trump is such an admirer of Jackson that he ordered his portrait to hang in the Oval Office.
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Everybody knows the cost of the shutdown
Everybody knows the $11 billion interlude
Everybody knows Ross doesn’t understand
Why federal workers went to shelters for food
Everybody knows they can just eat cake
Watching Trackdown from May 9th ‘58
A prophetic show
Everybody knows
Everybody knows Roger Stone was indicted
Everybody knows the cockroach of politics
Everybody knows that the president’s wall
Is a medieval vanity project fix
Everybody knows top-secret clearance
Was given to Jared for his adherence
To the Trump Show
Everybody knows
Everybody knows he slammed chiefs of intel
Everybody knows he doesn’t read their reports
Everybody knows the sanctions were lifted
On Russian companies Mnuchin supports
Everybody knows Donald has so much class
Dine at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ass
The vanity show
Everybody knows
Everybody knows the intel chiefs were misquoted
Everybody knows there are valleys and peaks
Everybody knows he’s compromised by Russia
He never spoke to Roger about WikiLeaks
Everybody knows his shutdown was self-inflicted
He can’t stand to be contradicted
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows a lot of wall they are building
Everybody knows that he tries to coerce
Everybody knows about executive time
He lives in an alternate universe
Everybody knows Bolton hates nuclear treaties
Trump cuts off reporters by saying “excuse me”
That’s how he rolls
Everybody knows
Everybody knows his willful ignorance
Everybody knows his constant dissent
Everybody knows every child in grade school
Has more structured work time than the president
Everybody knows he yearns to speak in arenas
His inaugural committee subpoenaed
Foreign money flowed
Everybody knows
Everybody knows the speech was muddled
Everybody knows it was low-energy
Everybody knows he shouldn’t bring threats
To the floor which increase his jeopardy
Everybody knows the women in white
Are cheering real congressional oversight
His mind is blown
Everybody knows
Everybody knows foot soldier Whitaker
Everybody knows his answers were preset
Everybody knows he was once an adviser
To a firm accused of scamming US vets
Everybody knows he refused to say
If he talked to Trump about the Cohen case
Hostile to yes and no
Everybody knows
Everybody knows about Trump’s finances
Everybody knows a probe is what he fears
Everybody knows his golf club in New Jersey
Has hired undocumented workers for years
Everybody knows Jared’s lawyer was paid
From donations to Trump’s re-election campaign
Hundred grand disclosed
Everybody knows
Everybody knows he mocked the Trail of Tears
Everybody knows his tweet was chilling
Everybody knows he missed the deadline
To tell Congress about Khashoggi’s killing
Everybody knows the El Paso mayor
Said Trump and Paxton are wrong about the barrier
Facts from Dee Margo
Now everybody knows
David Buckna
Kelowna