This ain't no hoax! This plague This virus This COVID-19 This ain’t no hoax Ain’t no joke Ain’t no flu Just ask the dead and the dying Their families The front line workers Nurses And doctors But even so Some so-called leaders Dithered Denied And fiddled As it spread Wasting time Ignoring warnings Leaving us unprepared And vulnerable Hoping for warm weather The Easter Bunny A miracle Or snake oil To save the day The bully-in-chief Standing at his bully pulpit His new TV show When challenged or questioned Bristles Prevaricates And gaslights He attacks Condemns And insults Dodges Weaves And takes no responsibility Of any kind For anything that has gone wrong For his many failures Missteps Mismanagement And malfeasance This so-called genius just keeps on lying Exaggerating And claiming victory In the face of defeat Complaining Whining Whinging And whimpering As the numbers climb The stock market falls And the Grim Reaper strikes Repeatedly Without pause Reality TV And bullies Be damned Preening like a peacock Strutting obscenely He goes on bragging of his ratings His crowd size on FaceBook And his followers But shows no sign of empathy Caring Or concern For the thousands dying On his watch To this man Questions are nasty And women are nasty They’re ugly Or they’re scum While he is Prince Charming The best ever A very stable genius Fond of pornstars Dictators And cheeseburgers He is an evil clown A bad joke A fraud And a two bit hustler The true hoax In charge of disaster relief Unfit for office Or military service With imaginary bone spurs He should go dance with the stars This bully-in-chief Here today But we hope Gone tomorrow Like foul smelling Flatulence Floating off into the distance Into the trash heap of history Where he belongs