When leaders wage war on poetry… Poetry fights back.
When President Donald Trump vows to “ban poetry”, the world’s poets, leaders, and dreamers refuse to stay silent.
Here is their rebellion — one speech at a time.
🎭 The Campaign Speeches
(Click any speaker to read their full address.)
| 🇺🇸 Donald Trump — “Make America Prosaic Again” | The original anti-poetry decree. |
| 🎭 William Shakespeare — “Thou Clown of Crass Prose” | The Bard strikes back. |
| 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin — “On the American Poetry Crisis” | Cold-war cool meets hot verse. |
| 🌍 Greta Thunberg — “You Cannot Ban the Voice of the Forest” | Nature answers with fury. |
| 🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron — “Poetry Is French” | A croissant-flavored defense of art. |
| 🕊️ Emily Dickinson — “I Dwell in Possibility” | Resistance whispered in white ink. |
| 🐉 Xi Jinping — “A Civilization Without Poetry Is a Dying Tree” | Bamboo diplomacy at its most lyrical. |
| 🌸 Rupi Kaur — “your ban is your fear” | A minimalist counterstrike. |
| 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy — “We Write in the Craters” | War and words intertwined. |
| ⛪️ Pope Francis — “In the Beginning Was the Verse” | Faith in rhyme restored. |
| 🚀 Kim Jong-un — “Poetry Is Supreme Leader” | The grand finale of ego and haiku. |
✍️ About the Series
Make America Poetic Again began as a joke about banning poetry — and grew into a global chorus defending it.
Every post is a parody speech written in the imagined voice of a world figure.
No one is safe. Not even the poets.
New voices join whenever inspiration (or exasperation) strikes.
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