The Hard Zone: At the Republican National Convention

 

 "I spotted a man who was selling The Collected Poems of Donald J. Trump. ‘It’s a breakthrough in literary development,’ he said, ‘and it’s fun to have out when people come over.’ I pondered on this. Maybe I needed new friends. The man was from Nashville and said I could have Volume One for $45. (Volume Two was coming soon, and, if Trump got elected, there would be a third volume provisionally titled ‘The Return of the King’.) ‘I think he’s the greatest poet of our generation,’ the man said.

‘Why?’ I asked.

‘I think he has done more to call attention to the use of the English language than anybody else in our time and he has been more creative with the usage.’"!

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