When Donald Trump unintentionally became “the greatest poet of his generation”

They started out as tweets so incendiary and of dubious veracity that even Twitter (before Elon Musk) banned them. Donald Trump of the platform, but today his messages have taken on a new meaning, rescued in a book of poetry that the former president and Republican candidate “adores” and his daughter Ivanka has “on the coffee table”.

This is what he told EFE Ian Prattone of the two “collectors(as they call themselves) from the book ‘Trump Poetry: The greatest poet of our generation‘ (‘Trump: The Greatest Poet of Our Generation‘), on sale at one of the stands set up these days at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

With Gregory Woodmanthe other collector, had the idea of ​​creating a book with messages from Trump because he considered that it is not only “a master of language” but also “the best poet of his generation”.

“He’s a genius. He has done more to change the use and understanding of the English language than any of the poets of our time.“He says firmly, standing next to the table where some volumes of the second edition are being sold, since the first edition, with 1,500 copies, has already sold out.

Where did you get the idea from?Reading one of his tweets, we thought: this guy has been writing poetry all along and people just don’t get it. What if Donald Trump was actually a poetic genius?

Although it costs $45, in honor of the 45th president (Trump, 2017-2021), the book is causing a sensation at this event that brings together the main figures of the party and in which Trump was officially named the presidential candidate for the elections to be held on November 5.

He appeared there on Monday to take part in a mass meeting, two days after the attempted murder he suffered at a rally, at the hands of a 20-year-old man carrying an assault rifle and who was shot down moments later.

To prepare the compilation Pratt and Woodman They did not need any permission from Trump, as they are public domain texts, but Pratt assures that he and his family are delighted.He loves it. I’m told that Jared and Ivanka (the former president’s son-in-law and daughter) have it on their coffee table at home.“, he says.

With a smooth, elegant, classic-book-style, bottle-green hardcover cover, the volume contains “His best works from 2009 to 2019″.

But the best, he points out Prattis yet to come, as they are already pre-selling “Volume two, which is all his words from 2019 to today“and it will cost $47,”because he will be the next president“, it states.

“There we will have all his works during the pandemic, the accusations, his wild years when he has been out of power and it will culminate with the events in Pennsylvania last week.“the attempted murder that left him injured in one ear.

The book is made up of his tweets “captured in the form of poetry”, randomly divided into verses and without any poetic rules.

No consonant rhymes, no assonances. No sonnets, no alexandrine verses. Trump’s poetry is free.He is free in the face of poems in which he leaves behind the limits of the English language,” Explain.

“You are wasting (line break) your time (line break) with these (line break) politicians and (line break) political clowns“, says one of the verses.

But the aspirations of Pratt and Woodman go far beyond publishing a second or even a third volume. Their dream and goal is that the “great poet“One day I will be in the Library of Congress, one of the country’s cultural references.

“I think one day they will be in the halls of the Library of Congress. In a few years we will have volume three and it will be a great collector’s edition.“, he says.

To achieve this, in addition to selling the book, the convention is asking for signatures to nominate him for the position of Poet Laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress.

“By making this nomination, we recognize Mr. Trump’s exceptional and unprecedented contributions to the cultural and literary landscape of our nation,” point out the text to be signed, to be demonstrated “a unique and striking use of language”.

His rhetorical style, he adds, has “influenced discourse on a global scale” and his “ability to convey profound messages with simplicity and frankness” remember “to the greatest poets who have shaped our literary heritage.”