Long before the term ‘fake news’ got started

Checkout tabloids reported on celebrities who farted.

No one thought a single story was true

Or if anyone did it was at least very few.

So why buy his stories for a big chunk of change?

Donnie is making our world too strange.

You don’t have to agree with all of his views

To know this Lion of the Senate is painful to lose.

He reached across the aisle and was true to his mind,

A war hero, a public servant, and usually kind.

Where might we be had he chosen better?

Seriously, did anyone even vet her…?

Who would have thought that he should not go?
He’s a weasel, an imp, and of most good things a foe.
But he also stands as one line of defense
Against Donnie’s ideas that make no sense.
And that list can be really, really big.