President Donald Trump visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on July 11, 2020. (Alex Edelman / AFP via Getty Images)
“Trump calls himself ‘wartime president’ over coronavirus pandemic.”
—CBS
“The Trump Administration is trying to block billions of dollars for states
to conduct testing and contact tracing.”—The Washington Post
This self-styled wartime president’s disposed
To mock all masks and states that keep bars closed.
A list of acts like these we should compile,
In case some day we hold a war crimes trial.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”