The first thought is that this could be a set-up.
\nHe’ll quarantine a few days, then he’ll get up,
\nsay, “I beat China flu, so you can do it, too.
\nIt only kills the weak.” And he won’t let up.
\n“Two hundred thousand didn’t have to die.
\nThey could all beat it if they’d only try.
\nMelania and me just drank some Clorox\u00a0tea,
\nand now we feel as good as apple pie.”
\nHe’ll say the whole pandemic is a hoax.
\nAnd make a lot of Democratic jokes.
\nHe’ll say that Chuckles\u00a0Schumer
\nstarted the deadly rumor,
\nand that is what has killed all these poor folks.
\nA plague of liberal misinformation
\nis what has caused the death\u00a0toll in our nation.
\nIf Dems had listened to him about bleach,
\nwe’d all be out now sunning on the beach.
\n“So, toss your masks away and breathe the air.
\nIt may kill sickly oldsters; we don’t care.
\nOpen up the schools; our kids now look like fools.
\nIf I can beat it, so can you. I swear.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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