From The Local in Norway:
Norwegians upcycle Trump speeches into poetry collection
12 May 2017
A Norwegian publisher who has released a collection of Donald Trump’s speeches repurposed as poetry says that the new book shows a different side to the US President.
“I know words… I have the best words,” Donald Trump once said in his superlative way.
Now those words by the new US president have been pulled together as a “collection of poetry” in Norway.
Who knew? Trump the poet?
“What Trump says is closer to poetry and fiction than to reality,” said the Norwegian man who created the collection, Chris Felt.
“We’re appalled that his rhetoric which seems to have little thought or preparation behind it could have won an electoral campaign,” Felt told the newspaper Aftenposten.
The book’s tongue-in-cheek title is “Make poetry great again” — a play on Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America great again“.
The content is composed strictly from speeches, interviews and other statements that the 70-year-old has given over the years.
Among the choice bits turned to poems in the book are words about his daughter that Trump said around 10 years ago.
“I have said
if Ivanka
were not my daughter,
perhaps
I would be dating her”
Felt said the words may be “terribly macho, pitiful and confusing but when the quotations have space around them I see other facets of him”.
Reading Trump‘s words as poetry Felt said he felt in them “more despair, more insecurity and perhaps an inferiority complex“.
According to the publisher Kaggen, the first print run was 2,000 copies — one of which has been sent to Trump. Now the question is whether his penchant for superlatives will make it a “bestseller”.
Former Norwegian prime minister stopped by new US entry controls: here.
Dear Kitty. Some blog 
Last week, the House just barely passed Trumpcare — and boy, did they celebrate.
While House Republicans were patting themselves on the back in the White House Rose Garden for raising premiums on hardworking women and families — 13 male senators were announced for the working group focused on crafting Trumpcare on the Senate side. You read that right — not a single woman.
Under Trumpcare, being a woman would be considered a pre-existing condition — it would defund Planned Parenthood, and it would specifically target women’s health when it comes to preventive and maternity care services. So why were there no women included?
It’s a question that so many of you spoke up and asked, and it’s a question that Republicans responded to by saying they were “addressing the optics” of the situation.
This isn’t about optics, this is about women’s health care needs.
Join me in telling Republicans this is unacceptable — tweet one of the 13 Republicans, Senator Orrin Hatch, right now to tell him women deserve a seat at the table and equal access to care.
Under Trumpcare, being pregnant or having a C-section could raise your health care costs — or even being a victim of sexual assault or domestic abuse. That means 32% of mothers who have had a C-section, one in six women who are victims of sexual assault, and 30% of women who have experienced some form of domestic abuse could be hurt under this disastrous law.
Trumpcare would undermine protections that help women afford the care they need — and these 13 male senators can’t run from the facts. They deserve to know that we will not let them quietly take women’s health backwards.
It’s time to remind them we’re not backing down — tweet Senator Hatch now to tell him you deserve equal access to affordable health care.
Thanks,
Team Patty
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