Are tariffs just part of a big shake-down racket,
Designed to improve Donald Trump’s income bracket?
Must countries line up to give Donald a payoff?
If they line his pockets will Donald Trump lay off?

Is this for the team or to make Donald richer?
Disastrous first inning: is Trump the right pitcher?
Now Donald is up, and he swings for the fences.
And if he strikes out, are there harsh consequences?

Trump’s poor understanding of world economics,
Is lampooned on nighttime TV by the comics.
Can Donald Trump make the whole world knuckle under?
Or will he tear every world market asunder?

Enrolled in U Penn, Donald learned next to nothing,
From classes in Econ, he should have learned something.
But nobody ever called him a good student.
(He majored in making his penis protrudent.)

Did Trump’s education produce these dumb taxes?
(For tariffs are taxes, not scalpels but axes.)
Did tariffs emerge out of Trump’s narcissism?
He’s made a huge splash and rejects criticism.

Will Donald be judged the worst president ever?
His tariffs on penguins just do not seem clever. (1)
Trump’s speeches are full of “facts” he’s fabricated,
Appealing to folks who aren’t well-educated.

Trump’s trusting his gut, though it’s half-full of feces,
Preferring its contents to scholarly theses.
Though Donald Trump’s gut is a shitty adviser,
We know that he thinks there is nobody wiser.

Economists say that he’s badly mistaken
And there is no sense in the steps he has taken.
But Donald loves tariffs and his unchecked power
Although he might lead us to our final hour.

(1) Trump has levied tariffs of 10% on Heard and MacDonald islands, two small, uninhabited islands near Antarctica, visited only by penguins.