Tag Archives: Donald Trump

America’s Concentration Camps

By Robin Bates | Published: July 9, 2025

Trump concentration camp Alligator Alcatraz is sending me to poems written about the Nazi concentration camps.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 1, 2025

Poets in the 1920s and 1930s understood their fascists, including Yeats in this poem.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 29, 2025

Think of the rightwing SCOTUS justices as Vernon and Petunia Dursley—with Trump as their spoiled kid

By Robin Bates | Published: June 23, 2025

The toxic masculinity that may explain why Trump bombed Iran exacts a price on those caught up in it, as Adrienne Rich makes clear.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 17, 2025

Think of Trump as Sauron and Musk as Saruman in their recent tiff.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 11, 2025

As Trump attends a performance of “Les Misérables,” I apply passages from the novel to his military crackdown on protest.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 6, 2025

Think of the Trump-Musk spat as the gingham dog vs. the calico cat from the Eugene Field poem.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 5, 2025

Trump and Musk coming to verbal altercations is like the tigers in “Little Black Sambo” devouring each other.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 28, 2025

Browning poem on the antinomian thinker Johannes Agricola helps us understand some of Trump’s Christian followers.