Let Trump Be Trump!

After a six-year hiatus Donald J. Trump has "pulled me back in" into political blogging.  It's not that I don't write any more, but I have been focused more on my day job, where I blog as well.  Nonetheless, over the past 15 months, Trump has provided all sorts of opportunities for us political hacks to chime in.  Thus far, I have resisted, but can't hold out any longer.  So let me jump back in with an ode to Trump that I have titled, "Let Trump Be Trump," which pretty much encapsulates what this means to me.

LET TRUMP BE TRUMP!

They’re saying to get over the hump

We must let Trump be Trump

So they added new campaign staff

To control the man’s routine gaffes

But will this make his poll numbers jump?

Kellyanne Conway is a master of spin

Bannon always goes for the chin

Manafort’s style just did not work

As Trump continued to be a jerk

But can this new team make him win?

After they repackaged Trump as Trump

He expressed his first regret on the stump

But without any specific sort of apology

It sounded like the same old tautology

Hillary’s the devil that we need to dump!

Americans are tired of his constant smears

Inciting the worst in us and stoking our fears

What happened to the shining city on a hill?

That Reagan made us aspire to, if you will

Not this apocalypse that Trump says nears!

After all trust is what each one of us earns

Trump must begin by releasing his tax returns

And he must absolutely stop with the name-calling

It’s simply childish, un-presidential and galling

Dignity and decency is what the nation yearns!

So from now until November the eighth 

Pray tell us why America is not already great

We need to hear details in the Trump plan

Debate your differences woman-to-man

And convince the skeptics that it is not too late!

Else Madam President it is going to be

With a likely Democratic Senate majority

She will shape the courts for a generation

In many ways that will transform our nation

And Trump will be Trump—destroyer of the GOP!