The jury said he did it and now Donald has to pay.
With all appeals exhausted, there is nothing more to say.
His case appealed for three full years; Supremes declined review;
The court released Trump’s funds to Carroll, paying her what’s due. (2)

Trump had to pay five million bucks: with interest, even more.
To add insult to injury, he cannot win his war.
Iran has closed the Hormuz Strait, which Trump was warned about.
At NATO’s conference this past week, we watched Trump lose his clout.

And hearing Donald blithering suggests he’s lost his mind.
Not only Trump, not only us, the whole world’s in a bind.
The Ship of State in stormy seas, the captain has gone nuts.
We need a virtuoso now but Donald Trump’s a klutz. (3)

And, there’s another Carroll case, which Donald also lost.
This one for eighty million bucks, a more substantial cost.
When Donald shot his mouth off and called Carroll nasty names,
The court found defamation; it was not just fun and games.

And, Vladimir still bombs Ukraine, but they are fighting back.
They’re using drone technology in their counterattack.
So Donald can’t win in Iran, nor Russia in Ukraine,
Did Trump cause all this mishegoss with his age-addled brain?

Is Trump playing solitaire with a fifty one card deck?
Or is he playing chess and getting constantly in check?
The NATO nations understand he’s unreliable
And, more and more, also conclude he’s certifiable.

“We’ve met the enemy,” said Pogo, “and found he is us.” (4)
For, we elected Donald, threw ourselves beneath the bus.
No other nation trusts us, all respect flew out the door.
Are we as flawed as Donald Trump, as rotten at our core?

(1) A term from Yiddish basically meaning “a crazy mess.”
(2) Judge Lewis Kaplan, July 8, 2026.
(3) Another Yiddish term meaning “physically clumsy or a mental blockhead.”
(4) Cartoonist Walt Kelly, 1970. His character, Pogo says, “We have met the
enemy and he is us.” He used this later as a book title. It is a modification
of an announcement by Commodore Oliver Perry in 1813, describing the
outcome of a naval battle with the British: “We have met the enemy and he
is ours.”