Bananas!
- Steven Mitchell
- Jul 13
- 2 min read
Is America becoming a banana republic under Trump. There's been a lot of commentary that suggests this is the case: the country operated as part of the Trump family busnesses; increased profits for the ruling class; increasing inquities for the working class; a ruling class of the wealthy, particulary the large campaign donors; debts incurred by tax cuts are borne by the other 80%; an administration that is characterized by incompetent synchophants, rather than real governement experience and expertise.
Or maybe our current situation operates more like an oligarchy, with Trump modeling his presidency after Putin and his cronies. A possible future song concept.
No Bananas
That’s all it took
Just 100 days
Turn it upside down
Set it all ablaze
Written in the stars
It was to be my fate
To show who’s the boss
My big MAGA mandate
All that populism
It’s all just a scam
More for the elites
Working class be damned
I’m the big cheese
A big beautiful wheel
The courts on my side
Congress under my heel
It’s all now a part of
The Trump family store
We grab the profits
The spoils of war
If you like bananas
You’re in the right place
Like a third world country
It’s power I embrace
As it’s been revealed
Trump is the prophet
Public turns private
And gather in the profits
Except for the debts
That all belongs to you
Extend those tax cuts
Long gone when due
Send to the fat cats
And how do we pay for
With cuts to SNAP
We take from the poor
If there are no facts
And the case is flawed
Just go on Fox News
And cry waste and fraud
The pen is my weapon
It takes but a stroke
A Sharpie big and bold
If I don’t like, I revoke
Don’t like my tariffs
And bitch and squeal
You don’t have a choice
Had better strike a deal
I’m an agent of chaos
And hope you like produce
It’s a banana republic
The USA a golden goose
It’s how I bear fruit
And it’s how I scheme
A banana republic
My personal regime
Yes, I have no bananas
I have no bananas today
But I bring plenty of scam
To the good old USA
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