Trumpist Presidentially Idiopathic Idiom

Trying to find the best that’s thought and said,
a quest on which the poet Matthew Arnold was so very keen,
is so hard that we should be focusing instead
not on what’s both thought and said but on what’s intended in between,
remaining all the time aware “not yet”
must be, when in pursuit of an impure, unholy grail,
not made by never finding it upset,
aware that even holy grails once they are found turn stale.

Communicating in a manner that induces lots of writhin,’
Donald Trump may fail to realize this, performing in his presidential presidium
like characters who made us laugh in “Monty Python,”
imperfectly transforming himself as an anthropomorphic idiopathic idiom,
whose language is far less reprehensible than anti-Jewish speech
that Harvard University lets students and professors preach.

In “Late Night Pokes Fun at Trump’s Mangled Idiom: Hosts ripped into his comment during a speech to troops about former President Joe Biden never having been “the sharpest bulb,” NYT,  6/12/25, Trish Bendix writes:

During his speech, Trump attempted to criticize former President Joe Biden’s intelligence, saying, “He’s never been the sharpest bulb.”

“What a wordsmith. See, see, most people would’ve gone with ‘brightest bulb,’ or ‘sharpest tool,’ but Donald Trump took half of both and smushed them together. That is what makes him the cream of the litter.” — Desi Lydic

“But that’s Trump — he’s not the brightest knife in the drawer. Some say he’s two tacos short of a Happy Meal.” — Jimmy Kimmel

“He wasn’t the sharpest bulb, no. He wasn’t the brightest knife in the drawer.” — Jimmy Fallon