Publisher's Synopsis
Trumpoem is unique in that it is a historical narrative in verse that rhymes. It is not only different in composition but is also unparalleled in its subject matter. The framework is the tumultuous political arena of the past ten years, in which circumstances, personalities, and events have collided to create an unprecedented story. The larger-than-life personalities in the poem are Donald Trump, whose ambitions and populism catapulted him from real estate mogul and deal maker to the highest office in the land; President Barack Obama, the master orator who enacted policies that angered Trump and made him decide to run for president; and Secretary Hillary Clinton, the perennial achiever and anointed successor to Obama who ran a flawed campaign and was no match for the outsider. Highlights include Trump's politically incorrect behavior in confronting the establishment and his uncanny ability to contain Clinton and threaten Obama's legacy. The book consists of eight chapters, 27 subsections, and 290 verses of five lines each that rhyme. Each chapter and its subsections have catchy titles such as the second chapter, "The Trump Hand," consisting of "The Golden Hurrah," "The Nominating Brawl," "The Nominating Crawl," and "The Unconventional Convention." The end result is a lighter read in comparison to traditional prose, with each verse moving quickly from one topic to the next. Though concise, the content is factual, comprehensive and thought-provoking. Sometimes satirical, humorous, stunning, even maddening, the verses are interspersed with riveting quotations and poetic license. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of Trump's rise to power and explains how he was influenced by Obama's liberal ideology to run; how he won the nomination against 16 others while Clinton struggled against Bernie Sanders; how Clinton strategized to personally attack him at her convention and during the campaign only to be thwarted by his clever tactics; how Obama, the Democrats, and the media tried to undermine his agenda from the beginning and throughout the first one hundred days of his administration; how he forged ahead with the affairs of state despite the obstacles and under the shadow of collusion and surveillance. Trumpoem is politics at its best and worst, presented in a poetic format unlike any other competitive work, a must read experience!
