Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal


Donald Trump’s flexing his muscles; he’s “running” the hemisphere.
Cuba, Columbia, Greenland, are next on his list, they fear.
Mexico, Canada also, fear Donald Trump’s greed and lust.
Who wants to live with a neighbor, whom you know you cannot trust?

Trump says we’ll “run” Venezuela; who’ll be in charge, day to day?
Maybe Maduro’s henchpeople? We have let all of them stay. (1)
Will they be making decisions about who may buy their oil?
Right now they sell it to China; that’s making Donald recoil.

Trump said he told our oil moguls what he was going to do.
They all said they missed his phone call, none of them had any clue.
Trump said that they would spend billions to modernize “our” resource.
(First, they will check its dentition, wary of Donald’s gift horse.)

So, what comes next? We need details. Donald Trump’s hazy on those.
The more press questions he answers, the more a fecal smell grows.
Donald is building his kingdom; he enjoys power to flaunt.
Miller says we’re a great power, so we’ll take all that we want. (2)

Hegseth is tooting his own horn; Rubio waffles a bit.
Our military shined brightly, justified by Trump’s bullshit.
Will Vladimir take Eurasia, leaving East Asia to Xi?
Our hemisphere, all for Donald? Is that their plan? We will see.

George Orwell wrote all about this; just read, “1984.”
Three lions “running” the planet; small countries quake when they roar.
Trusting our hemisphere’s future to Donald Trump’s addled brain,
Recall his six bankruptcies. Could he flush us all down the drain?

It’s five years since Trump’s insurrection failed to keep him in power, (3)
But now he’s got Venezuela. Everyone else ought cower.
Does power rest with the people since Trump became our monarch?
Then, after Donald, the deluge? Will someone build Noah’s Ark?


(1)We captured Maduro and his wife but left all the rest of his corrupt
regime intact.
(2)Stephen Miller, Trump’s de facto ICE commander.
(3)January 6, 2021, a day that should “live in infamy,” to borrow FDR’s
famous phrase, addressing Congress on December 8, 1941, after the
surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.