The Ongoing Battle

President Trump's first day

In office wouldn't allay your fears

If you've been worried about what we'll

Be seeing for the next four years.

 

Press Secretary Spicer,

Who's called upon to do Trump's bidding,

Had one major concern:

Crowd size! I'm not kidding!

 

Spicer castigated the media,

Saying that they had underreported

The size of Inauguration Day crowds.

The figures, he said, were greatly distorted.

 

Spicer insisted that Donald Trump's

Inauguration crowds had been

The largest that had ever witnessed

Such an event.* Once again

 

Trump's insecurities

And hurt ego take front stage.

The media merely report the facts

And he flies into a rage.

 

Facts are facts: President Obama's

Numbers were greater. But NO big deal.

Instead of putting out a tweet,

Trump had Spicer deliver his spiel.

 

The numbers are not that important.

What's important is whether Trump can

Set aside his petty gripes.

Is that beyond the scope of the man?

 

(1-22-17)

*Spicer had said the following: "This was the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe." Just awkwardly worded, or intentionally vague?