Second Coming No. 474 — May 8, 2026
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime
Deanna Kern Ludwin
DJT’s Personal DEI Glossary, Expanded
Activism: “Any student that protests, I throw them out of the country.”
Black and Latinx: “They’re taking Black jobs, and they’re taking Hispanic jobs.”
Climate Change: “The greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”
Discrimination: “Nobody gets treated worse than I do online. Nobody.”
Equal Opportunity: “I could be tougher than any human being you’ve ever seen.”
Females: “Grab ‘em by the pussy.”
Gender: “Only two genders, male and female”
Hate Speech: “I hate my opponents and I don’t want the best for them.”
Inclusiveness: “Radical Political Theories”
Justice40: “Divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy”
Key Groups: “Radical, hostile, ineffective, wasteful”
Low-income Housing: “I’m not gonna allow it to happen.”
Multicultural Diversity: Slovenian wife, Mexican maid
Noncitizen: “Garbage, leeches, rapists, thugs”
Oppression: “A genocide…white farmers are being brutally killed.”
Polarization: “These aren’t people. These are animals.”
Queer: Eradicated from the Stonewall National Monument website
Racism: “The least racist person anywhere in the world”
Sexual Preferences: Blondes, brunettes, redheads
Social Justice: “I was saved by God to make America great again.”
Transgender: “Left-wing gender insanity”
Underprivileged: “I love the poorly educated.”
Victim: “I am a victim. I will tell you I’m a victim.”
Woke “is broke.”
X: “Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum.”
Youth: “As long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass”
Zelensky: “You should have never started it.”
“You don’t have the cards.”
Deanna Kern Ludwin‘s poems and micro fictions have appeared in Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, Flash, Gyroscope Review, I-70 Review, The Normal School, and other journals, as well as in the anthology The Mountain: An Anthology of Mountain Poems (Middle Creek Publishing & Audio, 2021). Before her retirement, she taught literature and creative writing at Colorado State University. A member of the The Colorado Review advisory board, Ludwin lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Wow, thanks for this new dictionary! Makes me laugh, and cry.
I like how this is an abecedarian poem and a sort of a catalogue of lousiest ignorant sounds from The Con/Troller-in-Chief. It lets him indict himself, as it were. For it is always difficult to describe him because every metaphor or simile ends up slandering the other things he is compared to. For example, when people call him an idiot, it ends up unfairly insulting the real and less harmful idiots. When people call him a toddler, it inadvertently denigrates all the innocent toddlers, and so on.