Is it nice to criticize

Trump for avoiding taxes?

Or, for a bill of seventy thousand dollars

To fix his hair in waxes?

 

If a President cannot save

Some little bit of money,

What for is he a President,

I ask you, Melania honey?

 

And how is America to be great,

To be the shining city on the hill,

If even the President is called upon

To declare his taxes, pay his bill?

 

Does not such insistence

Diminish his stature

In the councils of the world,

Rendering him  a lesser creature?

 

This Biden, he is too straight a man

To fit a Presidential shoe;

Presidents must need be liars, crooks,

When the times are tough, you know.


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Badri Raina is a well-known commentator on politics, culture and society. His columns on the Znet have a global following. Raina taught English literature at the University of Delhi for over four decades and is the author of the much acclaimed Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth. He has several collections of poems and translations. His writings have appeared in nearly all major English dailies and journals in India.

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