In Bob Woodward's forthcoming book
entitled Fear
the author reports
a huge bombshell:
that Trump admits
he's made some mistakes.
According to the book
drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews
with firsthand participants and witnesses
or in other words
fact-based
his "biggest fucking mistake"
was condemning
white supremacists
after the 2017 rally
in Charlottesville
which is apparently what he calls
his unwitting follow-up speech
to his initial racist equivocation
of "both sides"
as being equally to blame
for the deadly conflict
and is how Trump
in his charmingly oddball way
arrives at an actual fact:
that despite the reactions
of sensible people
on the balance
he probably wasn't racist enough
for his base.
This poem © 2018 Emily Cooper.
