Are Mother Nature and the Lord conspiring against Trump?
Inauguration crowd size now cannot avoid a slump.
It seems hell’s freezing over; it will be so cold outside,
The ceremony’s moved indoors and there’s less room inside.
They’ll move into the Capitol; rich folks may still attend.
They’ve paid big money for their seats; that’s how you buy a friend.
The show will still be on TV and Donald Trump may claim
The highest ratings ever seen. That’s how Trump plays the game.
So, we will watch TV, and we will listen to his speech.
And then, we’ll sit and wait for Donald Trump to overreach.
Mass deportations, “prison camps,” the rise of oligarchs,
Big money rising up to rule: that’s standard for monarchs.
Can Trump end birthright citizens, as he has said he will,
Though what the Constitution says conflicts with Donald’s will? (1)
Will Trumpists in the Congress back their savior to the hilt,
And dwell inside the house of lies that Donald Trump has built?
If Donald’s nominees sail through, although unqualified,
Does this mean, in the Trumpist mind, that Trump is deified?
If governed by kakistocrats and Trump’s supremacy,
What are the prospects for survival of democracy?
As Donald Trump assumes the throne, he’s promised us a lot.
Will Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg now get to stir the pot?
Will our Supreme Court keep protecting Trump for every crime?
And is hell really freezing over? It might be, this time.
According to Dante, the deepest level of his Hell, (2)
Where the most heinous sinners for eternity must dwell,
Was not all flaming embers but, instead, was solid ice.
So, be forewarned; the freeze to welcome Donald should suffice.
(1) See the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1.
(2) See the Ninth Circle of Dante’s Inferno, Cantos 31-34. This is where fraudulence and treachery are punished.