Donald Trump is the modern day Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson rolled into one.

Everyone knows that Donald Trump has a way with words. It's usually while morally offending 95% of the western world, but, hey, a way's a way.

Collected from speeches and interviews given by Trump over the years, reporter and author Hart Seely hasn't changed a word. The only thing Seely did was construct Trump's thoughts into a form of spoken poetry. For example, on an August 9, 2015, appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, Trump said the following, which is now shaped as a future Pulitzer prize winning poem:

I was attacked viciously

By those women,

Of course, it’s very hard for them

To attack me on looks,

Because I’m so good-looking.

But I was attacked very viciously

By those women.

Or, as the Los Angeles Times notes, there's this poetic dreamscape, an ode to empty calories:

Nabisco. Nabisco!

Oreos! Right?

Oreos! I love Oreos!

I’ll never eat them again. OK?

I’ll never eat them again.

No…Nabisco.


It took Seely a month and a half to comb over hundreds of transcripts from The Donald, but it's not the first time Seely has found poetic beauty in the words of a politician. Previous versions have been published using the words of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and former presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Then there's this gem constructed by Seely, pulling a passage out of Trump's 2004 book, Trump: Think like a Billionaire, titled "On Criticizing":

It's best to avoid criticizing anyone.

Compliments work better,

And sometimes silence is

The best form of criticism available.

I've known people who have said

Bad things to and about me

Who cannot take criticism themselves.

Most people are one-way streets.

And it's better not to spend your time

Dodging head-on traffic.

If you stay silent, people will eventually

Make fools of themselves without your help.


It's even deeper when you imagine Trump saying this about himself.