IF (POTUS)

If you can impose tariffs huge, on those with whom you trade,
And stop supporting causes who provide much needed aid,


If you can hold to what are not substantiated views,
And claim that those opposing you are making up false news,


If you can sack advisors who suggest you think again,
Preferring to surround yourself with cowardly ‘Yes’ men,


And if you think that Greenland now, is somehow yours to claim,
Or that the Gulf of Mexico should have a change of name,


And if you think announcing plans for a new Riviera,
In Gaza with no Gazans there, makes you a good news bearer,


If you can meet Zelensky and then stab him in the back,
And cosy up to dictators, who sovereign states attack.


And if despite all this you find, you love yourself no less,
Then you could be the President – of the U.S. – I guess.

Related posts:

To read ‘A Bad Day at the Oval Office’, click here

To read ‘Hope or Despair’, click here

To read ‘Contending for the truth’, click here

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Author: Peteaird

Nothing particularly interesting to say about myself other than after 27 years working as a GP, I was delighted, at the start of December 2023, to start work as the South West Regional Representative of the Slavic Gospel Association (SGA). You can read about what they do at sga.org.uk. I am also an avid Somerset County Cricket Club supporter and a poor example of a Christian who likes to put finger to keyboard from time to time and who is foolish enough to think that someone out there might be interested enough to read what I've written. Some of these blogs have grown over time and some portions of earlier blogs reappear in slightly different forms in later blogs. I apologise for the repetition. If you are involved in a church in the southwest of England and would like to hear more of SGA’s work, do get in touch. I’d love to come and talk a little, or even a lot, about what they get up to!.

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