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Trump's little boxes

Little Boxes is a song written and composed by American folk/blues singer-songwriter Malvina Reynolds in 1962, which became a hit for folk singer-social activist Pete Seeger in 1963, when he released his cover version.

The song is a political satire about the development of suburbia and conformist middle-class attitudes.

On Aug. 8, FBI agents searched former U.S. president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. They seized 11 sets of documents marked as classified—one set at the highest classification level, "top secret/sensitive compartmented information" (TS/SCI), four sets at the "top secret" level, three sets at the "secret" level and three sets at the "confidential" level.

What follows is a rewrite of Little Boxes for these times.

Trumpy Boxes

Trumpy boxes in the basement

Trumpy boxes full of documents

Trumpy boxes are classified

Trumpy boxes not the same

There's confidential and secret

Top secret, TS/SCI

That were taken from the White House

And they all don't look the same

The subpoena he did receive

For the documents not turned over

The plastic and cardboard boxes

That the FBI reclaimed

And there's Trumpers and his lawyers

And the far-right wacky media

And they all spew propaganda

And they all sound just the same

The Loser plays on his golf course

And guzzles down his Diet Coke

And then adds some extra ketchup

To cheeseburgers on his plate

And he can only play checkers

While Merrick Garland plays 3-D chess

Donald's being out-maneuvered

Doesn't grasp the bigger game

At the New York deposition

He had taken the Fifth Amendment

Over four hundred forty times

And each time, it was the same

Who's the mole on the inside?

Is it Jared or Ivanka?

Or maybe wife Melania?

Inner circle is in play

Files confidential and secret

Top secret, TS/SCI

Now retrieved from Mar-a-Lago

He took them, what was his aim?

David Buckna



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