Everyone still knows Trump’s botching it up

Dear Editor:

Re: Everyone knows Trump’s botching virus response (April 1)

Here’s an update to my rewrite of Leonard Cohen’s song, Everybody Knows (1988) to address the current coronavirus outbreak, and Donald Trump’s response to it:

Everybody knows his wasted briefings/Everybody knows not where he’s going to/Everybody knows he says ‘No one saw this coming’/Remember that the opposite is true

Everybody knows Susan Rice met with Flynn/Where’s the 69-page briefing book she gave him?/Obama foretold/Everybody knows

Everybody knows his ‘liberate’ tweets/Everybody knows the heartland hotspots/Everybody knows his complete reversal/Told the governors that they call the shots

Everybody knows photo-ops with Christians who pray/He wished them a Happy Good Friday/His ignorance shows/Everybody knows

Everybody knows the virus testing/Everybody knows America’s done the most/Everybody knows it’s a smokescreen comment/Less than two per cent tested, he doesn’t boast

Everybody knows with their last breaths/America also has the most virus deaths/Over sixty-five thousand souls/Everybody knows

Everybody knows the TrumPence happy talk/Everybody knows health workers have true grit/ Everybody knows you can’t believe it/When Cheeto says ‘if you can believe it’

Everybody knows he’s spent his career/Surviving the next 10minute light year/More heat than light show/Everybody knows

Everybody knows his toxic suggestions/Everybody knows he is bombastic/Everybody knows Lysol and CDC warnings/Lied when he said he was being sarcastic

Everybody knows you must not inject/Or ingest or inhale to disinfect/Through mouth or nose/ Everybody knows

Everybody knows a junkie needs a fix/Everybody knows less than two per cent tested/Everybody knows a needle needs a vein/

Everybody knows he’s not been arrested/Everybody knows for lying has a knack/TV cameras are his oxygen and crack/He can’t quit the show/Everybody knows

Everybody knows he neglected intel/Everybody knows his denial and delay/Everybody knows a man with no moral compass/Will never find his way

Everybody knows he doesn’t read his PDB/It mentioned the virus threat repeatedly/Wherever it goes/ Everybody knows

Everybody knows he wants to do rallies/Everybody knows he bear hugs Old Glory/Everybody knows Jared said on Fox News/Fed virus response is a great success story

Everybody knows cheerleaders stand on sidelines/No state has met the Phase One guidelines/Trump’s cruelest month new low/Everybody knows

David Buckna, Kelowna