Sunday, July 26, 2026

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem


Remember, remember! The fifth of trumpvember

 the 40 days of trumpmas - a serial poem

 

for 40 days the trumpeter reigns,

his lies and hate on whom he disdains,

but election day will come so soon,

we'll no longer hear the orange baboon;

 

in 39 days full of world wide problems.

we could elect him to get rid of the muslims,

but as he'll rant on trivialities of his presidential life,

what could be worse? - you could be his wife;

 

in 38 days just what will you do?

the donald has said he likes lgbtq,

but as he bullies his women and all his men too,

if youre questioning, what stops him from bullying you?

 

in just 37 days, some people are saying,

(or pleading or hoping or some even praying)

the duke of prunes will dye his forelock purple my friend,

and thus make america grape again,

 

our days are down to just 36,

before our problems the don will fix,

he will on day one do what hes said - true,

he'll wall out our enemies - and fat women too!

 

on the 35th day of trumpmas

yes just seven weeks remain!

will the polls and tallies deliver us

donald with his golden mane?

 

34 days and the vice-pipers have piped,

though pence didnt say why donalds suit shouldnt be striped,

he wouldnt defend his master's string pulling,

to make america great? - who do they think they're fooling?

 

just 33 days till the macho tornado,

unless its blown away by hurricane machado,

with women and voters he has so much to loose.

keep your mouth shut donald (unless youre changing your shoes)

 

32 days and we’ve been hit by the big blowhard,

donald spoke here in fla (oh, we had a hurricane too)

this administration gives us playing the race card, a weak economy, and unemployment

but if you want a job you could be donald’s campaign manager (unless youre a jew)

 

31 days, just a month, remains;

will the donald say hes sorry, and his baser impulses restrain?

or keep blaming bill clinton for our moral demise;

when trump speaks to us, our NO votes must be our replies!

 

election comes this time (in 30 days) each 4 years,

time for praise and tears and fears;

as polls will open in many states,

vote early, please dont vote late!

 

down to 29, just a leap february,

and theres still the donald quite

contrary;

donald donald, how does your garden grow?

quoth the master debater, "with pretty maids groped in a row"

 

just 28 days - later or soon,

and the zombies will rise, led by the big goon;

unless everyone gets a reality inoculation,

i might have to move to canada for a well deserved vacation; 

 

now just 27, less than 4 weeks,

no time for you to say 'yikes!' or 'eeeks!'

obama wants to go to mars and colonize it for man,

lets send trump tomorrow! and colonize it for orangutan!

 

26 days are all that remain,

will our democracy and economy go down the drain?

if we all keep listening to the blustering oaf,

will he give jobs and prosperity? - or just half a loaf

 

25 days - will more women speak?,

of the antics of donald who the presidency seeks,

dating 14 year old girls or groping their mothers,

how did the gop pick him over the others?,

 

24 days - were down to two dozen,

the next woman who speaks just might be your cousin,

or mother or sister, aunt, niece, even daughter,

describing the circumstance in which donald caught her,

 

23 days left and trump doesnt yet have as many accusers,

as cosby, but he assures us that they are all really losers,

sent by bankers or hillary with secret agendas,

to disrupt our election of him - our defender!,

 

22 days and we know charity begins at home,

but donalds attention is so prone to roam,

his gift that disappeared to 911 survivors from his foundation?,

oops! maybe donald spent it on a vacation,

 

21 days and trump says the election may be rig-ly,

if hes not the winner and his total's not big-ly,

tremendously higher than hillary gets,

he warns his supporters may all lose their wits,

 

20 days left and while george zimmerman still walks free,

the man who shot at HIM got 20 years - while trayvon got eternity,

trump wants us to support our cops and maintain law and order,

he'll put all the inner city dwellers in jail, and send the immigrant criminals far across the border,

 

19 days left till we all go to pretend,

to elect someone to lead us, as if on it our lives depend,

but wise man, donald trump, already really knows,

who we really voted for - a wolf in president's clothes?,

 

18 days and we bad hombres demand a rebate,

on the ill feelings left since the comments of one candidate,

the debaters have met in their final grudge match,

but only donald can say from whose hands victory will be snatched,

 

17 days and our government is corrupt with quid pro quo,

did you take latin at wharton? is that how you know?,

donald wants us to fire at them all - the bureaucrats lined up in rows,

and believe me, corruption is a subject. that donald really knows,

 

16 days - lets set term limits on all our office holders,

and put all our women in binders - or maybe in folders,

donalds endless complaints are becoming a sour whine,

have a little cheese with that, from wisconsin, where 

hillary's doing fine,

 

15 days and on stocking covered thighs did linger,

two miniature hands with two thumbs and eight tiny fingers,

they belonged to the donald who believed that he owned,

any thing that he wanted - or anyone he got alone,

 

14 days yes only two weeks,

till the duke of orange assends to the throne he seeks?,

to rule all americans, the strong and the weak?,

and dominate the globe with power that's peak?,

 

the 13th day to go - does that seem unlucky?,

not for donald whos lately been appearing quite plucky,

claiming media, polls, and parties are against him,

and rallying his multitudes with wit waxing dim,

 

on the 12th day of trumpmas donald awoke with a jerk,

promptly fired his latest campaign manager (who considered that a perk),

if youre "AAAfroAAAmurikan" and unemployed i can put you to work,

barked donald the businessman from behind his sly smirk,

 

it's the 11th and engineer casey trump is in the caboose,

i hear some of you saying oh no! what's the use,

our campaign will probably just go off the tracks,

but donald says its ok - cause he's got "the blacks",

 

just ten days left yes only one-zero,

til donald is hoping that he'll be your hero,

as new hillary emails come under investigation,

donald hopes to rename camp david to camp donald for

his vacations,

 

like a cat has nine lives we're left with only 9 days,

till we're subject to donald? and his old wicked ways,

on foreign affairs he says he'll save us from isis,

but his domestic affairs are misogyny and crisis,

 

our days are numbered - yes only eight,

till once again we make america great,

by getting rid of candidates who have nothing to add,

goodbye donald you wont make america sad,

 

just one week to go - its day minus seven,

till america's lifted above - to trumpty dump heaven?,

where for rich folks like donald opportunity abounds,

and we keep the working poor with a wall that surrounds,

 

how the time it does fly its already day 6,

till americans problems the donald will fix,

his solutions begin on trumpday number one,

dont you like them? they'll come at the barrel of a gun,

 

Five days to go, baby, One in five,

No one here gets out alive, now,

david dukes not opposed to all jews,

he backs trump - who are you going to choose?,

 

only 4 days left till the armaged-don,

he'll seize power by the horns once he has won,

and donnie will be what he longs for - a winner,

using the FBI to wreak havoc on hillary the sinner,

 

only three left, just a triad of days,

and the donald his supporters continues to amaze,

with hoopla and folderoll made up in his head,

his winning temperament will leave us all dead,

 

just a pair of days - 2 - till trump paradise,

since these words you're reading please heed my advice,

the creatures that surround us are beginning to bite,

'blacks for trump' fear the Illuminati so lets turn out their light,

 

just a single day left till our thanksgiving,

deliver us from donald and preserve the living,

forget sanity and disgard your misgivings,

but pray hard to your gods that they'll be forgiving,

since we've got the nukes why can't we use'em?,

on the road to 2016 why couldn't we lose HIM?,

 

and trumpmas now has finally come,

the tallies will count up to a winning sum,

unless the earth is struck soon by a cataclysmic comet,

to elect a candidate who just makes you want to vomit?,

we wish you a merry trumpmas at this time each 4 years,

if you have'nt voted you've lost the chance to mitigate your fears,

cause donald duck is ready to lead, forget your crocodile tears,

so you'd better get the vaseline and lubricate your rears!

 

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Auld Lang Syne (Live at the Fillmore East, NY - 12/31/69 - 2nd Set)

 



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More than 200,000 people flee wildfires in France, Spain

 

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More than 200,000 people flee wildfires in France, Spain

By Pedro Oliveira Jr.
Spanish authorities declared a national emergency as three blazes burning near Madrid merged into one, forcing some 60,000 people from their homes. In France, 141,000 people were evacuated from the regions of Gironde and Landes. Photo by Damien Rembert/EPA
Spanish authorities declared a national emergency as three blazes burning near Madrid merged into one, forcing some 60,000 people from their homes. In France, 141,000 people were evacuated from the regions of Gironde and Landes. Photo by Damien Rembert/EPA

July 24 (UPI) -- More than 200,000 people fled their homes on Friday in fear of powerful wildfires tearing through Spain and France.

Spanish authorities declared a national emergency as three blazes burning near Madrid merged into one, forcing some 60,000 people from their homes.

In France, 141,000 people were evacuated from the regions of Gironde and Landes.

"This is the worst wildfire in our region's history," Madrid's regional leader, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, told reporters.

France's interior minister, Laurent Nunez, said 50 firefighters had been injured fighting the wildfire.

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"We are going to reorganize our response so we can fight it from the ground and prevent it from advancing toward Bordeaux," he added.

In Madrid, firefighters said the blaze is beyond their control, BBC reported.

"The wildfire is at its peak and is currently beyond the capacity of firefighters to contain," Carlos Novillo, emergency management chief in Madrid, told reporters.

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The president said the situation remains "under very high tension."

"My thoughts go out to our firefighters and the rescue forces who are battling relentlessly on the fire front," Macron added. "Their courage commands respect."

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Cool down with these summer sweets and R&B treats

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FILE - In this April 21, 2002 file photo, Little Richard performs "Good Golly Miss Molly" during the finale of "American Bandstand's 50th...A Celebration," at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif. Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Little Richard will be buried in a private funeral at Oakwood University, a historically black university in Huntsville, Ala. Little Richard died on May 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
Little Richard performs “Good Golly Miss Molly” in April 2002 during the finale of “American Bandstand’s 50th…A Celebration,” at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif.AP (original)

Denise Oliver Velez sadly passed away on July 15, 2026. She left us with an astounding collection of stories dedicated to celebrating Black music. Daily Kos hopes to honor her memory by continuing to share these timeless pieces.

This story originally ran July 21, 2024


”Black Music Sunday” is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 220 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new.

With heat waves happening across the country, it can be hard to find relief. I happened to notice that July 21 is National Ice Cream Day and I’m smiling while deciding what flavor to scoop up for dinner instead of cooking over a hot stove.

I mentioned ice cream and music to my husband, who proceeded to name a bunch of R&B tunes about ice cream and sugar and desserts that were his favorites. Then I got to remembering some of mine. So let’s dive into some sounds of sweetness. The good news is that the music isn’t fattening!

As a Black history note, Augustus Jackson was known as “The Father of Ice Cream.”

While most early ice creams were frozen egg custards, Jackson developed a lighter kind of ice cream. Thanks to Jackson’s eggless recipe, many ice cream recipes now do not have eggs.

Born on April 16, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Augustus Jackson started working at the White House in Washington D.C. when he was just nine years old.

He worked as a chef there from 1817 until 1837, cooking for Presidents James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson. He also prepared formal meals at state dinners for dignitaries.

After 20 years at the White House, Jackson left Washington D.C. and went back to his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Face 2 Face Africa reports it was in Philadelphia where he opened his own catering and confectionery business and would build his fortune by making ice cream.

Ice cream has been around since the 4th century B.C.E. originating from Persia (now modern Iran). Although Jackson did not invent ice cream, he became famous for his unique ice cream-making techniques and recipes.

The first tune we both thought of dates back to 1955, when Richard Wayne Penniman, known to all as Little Richard, had a major hit with “Tutti Fruitti.” Tutti-fruitti is an ice cream flavor, a dessert, and in his inimitable style was a pretty risque tune, though it was cleaned up in the broadcast version.

Here he is performing it in the 1956 film “Don’t Knock the Rock” which starred Alan Dale and Alan Freed: 


The Library of Congress has this essay by Cary O’Dell on Little Richard’s “Tutti Fruitti” which was added to the National Register in 2009.

Little Richard signed his first recording contract in 1951, at age 19, with RCA records. … Finally, he joined Specialty Records where he was signed by Robert “Bumps” Blackwell as a potential rival to Ray Charles. There Little Richard’s luck began to change.

Richard’s early days with Specialty–trying to fit himself into the Ray Charles mold–were nomore successful than his partnerships with RCA and Peacock had been. One particular recording session, this one on September 14, 1955 was, typically, not going well. But at a break, supposedly taken at a nearby watering hole, Little Richard sat down at the piano and banged out an old, slightly obscene ditty he had often performed as filler in his nightclub dates. The tune, “Tutti Frutti,” accented heavily by Richard’s soon-to-be trademark “woos,” howls and scat-like singing, rocked the house; a potential hit was at hand—provide they could clean up the lyrics.

Originally, the lyrics of “Tutti Frutti” celebrated the female backside: “Tutti frutti, good booty.”Other lyrics later in the song got even more graphic and were definitely not airwave appropriate for 1955. Local songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie was drafted by Bumps to rework the lyrics. By the time LaBostrie was done, “good booty” had been replaced by “aw rootie,” a slang adaptation of “all righty.” Other provocative lines got replaced with relatively innocent odes to girls named Daisy and Sue. It was this version the Little Richard would commit to vinyl.

There are lots of tutti-frutti ice cream recipes online. Here’s one.

Fast forward to 1995, here’s Little Richard performing “Tutti Frutti” at the Concert for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: 


RELATED STORY: He put the R in rock ‘n’ roll: Remembering Little Richard

In 1961, The Drifters recorded a hit tune with a cha-cha beat, “Sweets for My Sweet:” 


Singles Stories recounts:

The Drifters released their first single to feature Charlie Thomas on vocals, a Doc Pomus / Mort Shuman composition which was a big hit for the group and an even bigger hit for a completely different group. Just before joining – or, more appropriately, being recruited for – The Drifters, Thomas had been a member of The Five Crowns. When manager George Treadwell, who owned the rights to The Drifters’ name, got fed up with his current crop of performers and decided to fire all of the existing members of The Drifters, he decided to grab The Five Crowns and recruit them to become the new incarnation of The Drifters.

One of the interesting facts about their tune is their backup singers: “It also featured Jimmy Radcliffe and four female backup vocalists, all of whom would later have hit records, Cissy Houston, Doris Troy, Dionne Warwick, and Dee Dee Warwick.”

The tune would reappear in a British reggae version, recorded by Steven James Lewis known as C.J. Lewis, in 1994. 


In 1964, Marvin Gaye would have a hit with “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” written by Motown’s writing team of Holland–Dozier–Holland. It was released as both a single and as an album with that name. Here’s a live version: 


Gaye also recorded “Wie Schön Das Ist,” the same song, but in German. 


Motown’s The Four Tops would also sing about sweetness in their 1965 hit “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch):”

The Four Tops started their musical career as the Four Aims at a house party in Detroit in 1954. Members included Levi Stubbs, Abdul “Duke” Fakir, Renaldo “Obie” Benson and Lawrence Payton. They changed the group’s name to The Four Tops to avoid confusion with a popular group of the day, the Ames Brothers. A smooth lounge act, the Tops stuck to standards and ballads and recorded for at least four other record companies before Berry Gordy signed them to Motown in 1964.

Their breakthrough hit, “Baby I Need Your Loving,” was produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland in 1964, and was followed by greater success with “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” in 1965, the Tops’ first #1 hit. Other hits were released during this period, including “It’s the Same Old Song,” “Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over)” and “Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever.” 


 

Soul singers Sam & Dave had a hit with “Soul Sister Brown Sugar.” Harly Osgood profiled them for Black Facts:

Sam & Dave were the most successful black rhythm and blues duo of the 1960s although they performed into the early 1980s.

Sam Moore, was born in Miami, Florida and Dave Prater, was born in Ocilla, Georgia. Both men sang in church while growing up. They performed separately in Southern clubs during the 1950s and met each other in Miami’s King of Hearts Club in 1961. Following that meeting, the two singers became a duo and signed with Roulette Records, releasing a few mildly successful singles.

In 1965, Sam & Dave got their big break, and signed with Atlantic Records which then turned over the duo to their affiliate, Stax Records, where they were paired with writing and production team, Isaac Hayes and David Porter. The writers gave Sam & Dave a string of hits including “You Don’t Know Like I Know” (1965), “Hold On! I’m Comin” (1966) and “Soul Man” (1967). They were known for their exciting live performances during the late 1960s, filling rooms with their infectious energy.

Here’s their “Soul Sister Brown Sugar” from 1968. 


Since I started off talking about ice cream, I’ll close with a 1969 tune from an R&B soul group many folks may not remember: The Dynamics.

From the All Music Guide to Soul by Vladimir Bogdanov:

Isaac “Zeke” Harris, George White, Fred Baker, and Samuel Stevenson were the Dynamics. (Zerben R. Hicks also sang with them but left shortly after their first album release.) All Detroit natives, the group was managed by Ted White, who was married to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. Their first Cotillion release, the metaphoric “Ice Cream Song,” did quite well on R&B charts. Following the lead of Atlantic recording Aretha in the South, White took the Dynamics to Memphis to record, which is why “Ice Cream Song” sounds like something the Mad Lads would have recorded at Stax. The Dynamics, however, were more versatile than the Mad Lads, and the material was better too. They had three lead voices, one being an outstanding falsetto.

Here’s their contribution, “Ice Cream Song:” 


I’m going to stop here, for now. I have lots more sweet tunes to share and I hope you’ll post your musical sweet tooth tunes in the comments section below.

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  1. Comment by MurielVieuxThePoet.

    Morning All

    Lord that woman loved her the music

  2. Comment by denig.

    Thank you!

  3. Comment by poetry2016.

    Hello to all. Some people would like to send Dee's husband and her loved ones their condolences directly to him and her loved ones via mail.

    If you want to mail condolences, etc. you all can send your cards, letters, stories & memories to directly Denise's husband Nad.

    Here is link to the PO box address, please share this information:

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/24/800074344/community/you-can-send-your-cards-letters-memories-to-denises-husband-nad-at-this-po-box-address-provided-on-the-gofundme-page-by-devin-mcelderry/

    (The GoFundMe was closed a few days ago - as shown on the gofundme page.)

    In case you missed it, more obituaries were added days ago - including the New York Amsterdam News and the NYT, etc.:

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/18/800071416/community/obituaries-denise-oliver-velez/

    I'll add more as I can, but you all are welcome to sharing information, links in the comments on my diaries for that information

    Thanks to those who have already done do.

    Thanks again for this Black Music Sunday REWIND.

    Many blessings to all....

    • Reply by poetry2016.

      ...already done *so*

  4. Comment by IMNOEINSTEIN.

    Loved the Little Richard videos, saw him as a kid at the old RKO theater in downtown Brooklyn, he had green hair! He went nuts on stage and so did everyone else.

  5. Comment by poetry2016.

    Grand Rising on this Sunday morning. Thank you for sharing another one Dee's many gems.

    • Reply by poetry2016.

      ...since this is the 2nd time Dee's Black Music Sunday REWIND is posted, I'm more prepared to see her name - knowing it is clearly a repost, republished diary, story with the massive entertaining and educational - enlightening posts Miss Dee contributed to here.

    • Reply by denig.

      I didn't see the other one so this was my first. I had a weird reaction to seeing Denise's name. Can't really describe it. But after my initial reaction, I got really happy that her work is being republished here.

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