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A poet and he didn't know it: Donald Trump's speeches go on sale as poetry book

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The speeches, interviews and tweets of the Republican presidential candidate have been made into a book of verse, Bard of the Deal

The interviews, speeches and tweets of outspoken tycoon-turned-presidential-candidate Donald Trump have been transformed into what publisher HarperCollins is calling a “treasury of spoken poetry”.

Compiled from three decades of material by the author and reporter Hart Seely, book of verse Bard of the Deal arrives on bookshelves on 15 December. Not a word of Trump’s has been changed to create the poems, said HarperCollins, pointing to the piece The Vicious Ones, pulled from Trump’s 9 August appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, as a highlight.

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.

Nabisco. Nabisco!
Oreos! Right?
Oreos! I love Oreos!

I’ll never eat them again. OK?
I’ll never eat them again.

I.

Worst pile of crap
Architecture
I’ve ever seen.

One of Lyda’s aides stopped me in the hall
To say the building was getting a kick
Out of my ‘burnt toast’ episode this morning
That caused the fire alarms to go off
For 20 minutes
And caused an evacuation.

She thought it was funny
I was cooking breakfast in the capitol
And burnt it.

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