Trump may be a poet without knowing it!
“I know words... I have the best words,” Donald Trump had once said in his superlative way. Now those words by the US President have been pulled together as a collection of poetry in Norway.
Who knew? Trump the poet? “What Trump says is closer to poetry and fiction than to reality,” said Chris Felt, the Norwegian man who created the collection. “We're appalled that his rhetoric which seems to have little thought or preparation behind it could have won an electoral campaign,” Felt said.
The book's tongue-incheek title is ‘Make poetry great again’ — a play on Donald Trump's campaign slogan ‘Make America great again’. The content is composed strictly from speeches, interviews and other statements that the 70-year-old has given over the years.
Among the choice bits turned to poems in the book are words about his daughter that Donald Trump said around 10 years ago. “I have said if Ivanka were not my daughter, perhaps I would be dating her.”
Felt said the words may be “terribly macho, pitiful and confusing but when the quotations have space around them I see other facets of him”. Reading Donald Trump's words as poetry, Felt said he felt in them “more despair, more insecurity and perhaps an inferiority complex”.
According to the publisher, Kaggen, the first print run was 2,000 copies — one of which has been sent to Donald Trump. Now the question is whether his penchant for superlatives will make it a “bestseller”.