At a press conference
in India today
Trump of course
remained focused on affirming the rights of Muslims
to live freely without persecution in the country
admonished Prime Minister Modi
for his citizenship law
and said that he experienced
"serious regret"
after the US Supreme Court ruled in favor
of the recently-revised "public charge" rule
that now makes it harder for immigrants
receiving certain kinds of non-cash benefits
like healthcare assistance
food aid and housing subsidies
for more than a year
to get green cards
upon realizing that it probably would've excluded
people like his grandfather
from immigrating to the US.
Then Trump woke up
from his fever dream
and back in ours
also known as reality
said of Supreme Court Justices
Sotomayor and Ginsburg
“I just don’t know
how they cannot recuse themselves
from anything having to do with Trump
or Trump-related"
mischaracterizing Sotomayor's criticism
of the appellate process
catering to the federal government
as an attack on himself personally.
Whew!
This poem © 2020 Emily Cooper.
