What do you think?
Rate this book
Bigly: Donald Trump in Verse
"I know words. I have the best words." - Donald Trump
He's unpolished. He's unfettered. He's unconventional. But when President-Elect Donald Trump speaks, the world listens-and things happen. This hilarious collection of ultimate "Trumpisms" presents some of Trump's most memorable lines from the campaign trail and early days in office as free verse to honor our new Commander-in-Chief for his wit, wisdom, and knack for verbal poetry.
He's unpolished. He's unfettered. He's unconventional. But when President-Elect Donald Trump speaks, the world listens-and things happen. This hilarious collection of ultimate "Trumpisms" presents some of Trump's most memorable lines from the campaign trail and early days in office as free verse to honor our new Commander-in-Chief for his wit, wisdom, and knack for verbal poetry.
256 pages, Hardcover
Published May 23, 2017
9 people are currently reading
21 people want to read
About the author
Rob Long
9 books2 followersRobert Long is an American writer and television producer in Hollywood. As a screenwriter and executive producer for the long-running television program Cheers, he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations in 1992 and 1993. Long created the television show George and Leo, among others.
In addition to his television work, Long is a contributing editor for National Review, as well as a contributor to TIME, Newsweek International, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He hosts the syndicated weekly radio commentary Martini Shot, and appears regularly on political commentary shows. In May 2010, he took part in launching a new center-right commentary site, Ricochet.
Long received an award from the Writers Guild of America, and is on the board of directors of The American Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arts organization created to nurture and reward television and feature-film projects. His published works include Conversations with My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke.
In addition to his television work, Long is a contributing editor for National Review, as well as a contributor to TIME, Newsweek International, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He hosts the syndicated weekly radio commentary Martini Shot, and appears regularly on political commentary shows. In May 2010, he took part in launching a new center-right commentary site, Ricochet.
Long received an award from the Writers Guild of America, and is on the board of directors of The American Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arts organization created to nurture and reward television and feature-film projects. His published works include Conversations with My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
November 14, 2018
I am a generally positive person who reads the news from various sources on a daily basis. I do all I can to maintain a sense of humor, because, that old saw, you laugh or you cry. Thus I periodically try to review a funny Trump book for the maintenance of my mental health, such as David King’s Why Trump Deserves Our Trust, Respect and Admiration, where my review extends the joke.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So the joke in this book is that 45, a non-reader and non-writer who gets his “information” from Fox News and from his staff in the form of flash cards with key words on them, is essentially a poet. A poet for our times, in a time that assaults poetry. It’s more ambitious, shall we say, than King’s fine and thoughtful work.
It’s set up as an actual work of poetry, as if 45 were some great poet. There’s a kind of haiku by Milo Yiannopoulos with which it opens, so there’s your first warning. And then there’s a preface taking on directly your skepticism about his poetic abilities. Then a (faux) foreword, then a (faux) introduction, and then 149 small book pages of “poems” cobbled together, and because the purpose of the book is to make you laugh rather than break things, it carefully avoids some of the most offensive things with which he is associated. Most of the “poems” are about things like MAGA and the border wall using language like “bigly.” The funny (faux) afterword analyzes the lyricism of “America’s greatest living poet.”
Many of them are along the lines of this, which is what Trump actually said when asked a question on 2/10/17 about his immigration executive order:
A Certain Position
While I’ve been president,
Which is just for
A very short time,
I’ve learned some tremendous things
That you could only learn, frankly,
If you were in a certain position,
Namely, president.
The emptiness of speech here elevated to the status of poetry. Others illustrate his (lack of a) capacity for finishing sentences. When he was asked about how he got interested in politics, this is what he actually replied, 4/2/16:
New Hampshire
I was looking at very seriously
One time,
Not—they say—oh,
He looked at it for many—
I really, no.
I made a speech at the end of the eighties in New Hampshire—
But it was really a speech that was,
It was not a political speech.
But because it was in New Hampshire—
But that’s enough. I don’t have the stomach for it after watching him in Europe yet again, and hearing what it is he has to say about nationalism on an occasion to honor veterans, spitting in the faces of our European neighbors. I turn to Auden:
All words like Peace and Love,
All sane affirmative speech,
Had been soiled, profaned, debased
To a horrid mechanical screech.
--W.H. Auden
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So the joke in this book is that 45, a non-reader and non-writer who gets his “information” from Fox News and from his staff in the form of flash cards with key words on them, is essentially a poet. A poet for our times, in a time that assaults poetry. It’s more ambitious, shall we say, than King’s fine and thoughtful work.
It’s set up as an actual work of poetry, as if 45 were some great poet. There’s a kind of haiku by Milo Yiannopoulos with which it opens, so there’s your first warning. And then there’s a preface taking on directly your skepticism about his poetic abilities. Then a (faux) foreword, then a (faux) introduction, and then 149 small book pages of “poems” cobbled together, and because the purpose of the book is to make you laugh rather than break things, it carefully avoids some of the most offensive things with which he is associated. Most of the “poems” are about things like MAGA and the border wall using language like “bigly.” The funny (faux) afterword analyzes the lyricism of “America’s greatest living poet.”
Many of them are along the lines of this, which is what Trump actually said when asked a question on 2/10/17 about his immigration executive order:
A Certain Position
While I’ve been president,
Which is just for
A very short time,
I’ve learned some tremendous things
That you could only learn, frankly,
If you were in a certain position,
Namely, president.
The emptiness of speech here elevated to the status of poetry. Others illustrate his (lack of a) capacity for finishing sentences. When he was asked about how he got interested in politics, this is what he actually replied, 4/2/16:
New Hampshire
I was looking at very seriously
One time,
Not—they say—oh,
He looked at it for many—
I really, no.
I made a speech at the end of the eighties in New Hampshire—
But it was really a speech that was,
It was not a political speech.
But because it was in New Hampshire—
But that’s enough. I don’t have the stomach for it after watching him in Europe yet again, and hearing what it is he has to say about nationalism on an occasion to honor veterans, spitting in the faces of our European neighbors. I turn to Auden:
All words like Peace and Love,
All sane affirmative speech,
Had been soiled, profaned, debased
To a horrid mechanical screech.
--W.H. Auden
January 14, 2019
This is a well composed compilation of DT various statements allowing the reader to see who DT really is.
February 1, 2018
From the Afterword:
"Trump's poetry has overturned the corrupt academic-leftist monopoly on literature that has enshrined the unintelligible; the narrowly, stupidly feminist, Marxist, racist-identity-politics Left; and the government subsidized rubbish that we might otherwise be spared—all of it written in a strangle bureaucratic newspeak celebrating a perpetual adolescent rebellion against a white male Christian establishment that a) only ever really existed in the Left's overheated imagination and b) as far as it did exist has been in rapid retreat, if not entirely routed, over the last half century."
Has ever a more stunningly apt analysis on Presidential rhetoric been written? I think not.
This book is my favorite thing.
"Trump's poetry has overturned the corrupt academic-leftist monopoly on literature that has enshrined the unintelligible; the narrowly, stupidly feminist, Marxist, racist-identity-politics Left; and the government subsidized rubbish that we might otherwise be spared—all of it written in a strangle bureaucratic newspeak celebrating a perpetual adolescent rebellion against a white male Christian establishment that a) only ever really existed in the Left's overheated imagination and b) as far as it did exist has been in rapid retreat, if not entirely routed, over the last half century."
Has ever a more stunningly apt analysis on Presidential rhetoric been written? I think not.
This book is my favorite thing.
December 12, 2020
I bought this book off AudiLee on the Bonanza platform.
I think it's a cute read. If you're looking for something you can get through quickly and get a chuckle, this is it.
I think it's a cute read. If you're looking for something you can get through quickly and get a chuckle, this is it.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews