Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets

A leader has many considerations within his consciousness, low or high, narrow or wide minded may he be. Even Donald Trump. Though vindictiveness and venom flavor what The Donald spouts to his subjects. Errrr, fellow citizens. Of America. Home of the brave, land of the free. We know he thinks the press is the enemy of the people, like a bad cliche dictator. George Orwell, role your eyes and turn o...

How we are perceiving and treating Covid-19 has been changing and evolving. First it was no, masks did not help. Then by June 2020, yes, we said, masks do help. That includes the World Health Organization or the WHO, saying as late as the end of March that masks do not help. And even saying today that aerosol infection is not significant. We shall see.  This poem is a snapshot from June 8 202...

The Vice Presidential debate pitted two white people against one woman of color, as the rules and chidings were not enforced equally. Pence interrupted Kamala Harris repeatedly, though not as psychotically as Trump interrupted Biden. But result was that Pence received more time to talk in the end. Caroline Randall Williams, the poet, and author of the brilliant NY Times Opinion piece 'You Want A C...

The inevitable had to happen/Karma kept skirting the edges/And now everything is collapsing. Even our favorite most intense White House racist Stephen Miller has contracted the coronavirus. Along with ALL the heads of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all five men self-quarantining, which of course has never happened before. Meanwhile our probably still infectious Leader has demanded his way back home, t...

Donald Trump appears to have survived his hospital visit and bout with Covid. He probably should make it. Though he still is infectious, and will be for at least a few more days. And can spread it to other people, as before he actually tested positive. For one is infectious 2.5 days before symptoms appear, research is showing us; and the infectiousness peaks 0.7 days before symptoms appear. And ty...

Donald Trump contracted the Coronavirus. At first they said from Hope Hicks, whom they reported tested positive first. Then they added Melania into the picture, plus Kellyanne Conway. And a bunch more Republicans who often didn't wear masks at various events. They mentioned that Hope had flown on the President's plane with the usual entourage. And now everyone fears for their life. Everyone that w...

In honor of President Trump being stricken with the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, and being treated with two new drugs that apparently have produced improvement in his medical status, here is today's poem 'I Am A Virus.' Remdesivir and Regeneron should help the President, especially at this early stage of his disease. He will be watched over the weekend in the hospital. And he may be infectiou...

Be Nice? Are we talking about Donald Trump!?? But, why not be chivalrous and uplifting, rather than disgraceful and embarrassing? We are post - 'debate' three days, more lying from Trump not knowing who the Proud Boys are when his son Don Jr. has been pictured with one of their leaders. He can't stop. He can't control himself. What a model for our nation! Our kids will be thinking that lying is no...

After the agonizing irritating disruptive interruptive unrespectful unpresidential debate where Donald Trump could not get his lips together to condemn white supremacists, like the Proud Boys et al, but had the prepared phrase 'Stand back and stand by' stated quite clearly, we see Trump most clearly as the racist he is. For all the people who had hopes we were at the tipping point to deal with our...

After the extremely rude interruptive debate behavior of Donald Trump in 2020 Presidential Debate #1 Sept 29, Rudy Giuliani professes what a great performance Trump gave the nation. He is tweeting it widely, to much derision and annoyance, if you read the comments to his posts. But Rudy has been in Trump's corner before. Sinking to the level of the conman when he once had been a respected prosecut...

Exhume: definition >> dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground*  This poem was written on February 16 2017, and is very appropriate for today. With the details of Donald Trump's taxes finally available for examination via the New York Times.  Donald's grandfather, Friedrich, from whom the family fortune was founded, was deported from Bavaria after returning h...

Make that 'Archie Bunker racism,' per Michael Cohen in his book 'Disloyal.' Which is proving very interesting with insight into Trump's motivations and aspirations, that he shared with - or foisted upon - Michael Cohen, Especially his disdain and jealous hate for Barack Hussein Obama. Always spoken by Trump to Cohen as all three names with the accent on the Hussein. 'Trump And His Followers,' toda...

Extinction of a species unique to a biome or perhaps a virome. This occurs every day, but is accelerated by the massive plundering and destroying of our environment, our planet, to the point today of now threatening our very existence. 'Rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosyst...

Our democracy is in danger. Donald Trump is tipping us into his autocratic rule, aided by Mitch McConnell. 200,000 dead from the Coronavirus and he wants a mandate to continue acting out as badly as he has so far?! Now trying to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) while 2020 voting has already started, after McConnell and the self-righteous Republicans declared in March 2016 that Barack Obama nomina...

Both these poems were written on February 1, 2017 - a few weeks after Donald Trump was inaugurated. With the biggest crowd ever! Right? Trump our P.T. Barnum. Always the superlative. Always the best. The biggest. Now we are bearing the fruit of our subjection to this venal cheat and conman. As he pushed Sean Spicer run out there to lie about the inauguration crowd, unable to even to properly tie h...

When questioned this week, Donald Trump would not agree that if he loses the November 3rd election, there will be a peaceful transfer of the Presidency to his victor. This is shown on youtube for all to see via the link below to Chris Hayes 'All In' post of his open to his Sept. 23 2020 MSNBC show. VERY IMPORTANT!!   Today's Trump Poem podcast is one that I wrote today, in reaction to this ne...

This is a Trump Poem I wrote today, reflecting many of the things going on right now. With marchers protesting in the streets of Louisville. Because no policemen were indicted with the invasion of Breonna Taylor's home in the middle of the night. Three policemen killing her in her bed. Trump preparing to steal the election in many devious Trumpian ways - including arranging several states to appoi...

Theocracy -  a form of government in which a country is ruled by religious leaders or divine right.  Vocabulary.com >> 'not a lot of room for dissent in a theocracy.' Betsy DeVos, still current Secretary of Education, is noted to have come from a family of fundamentalist extremists. Betsy's husband Dick founded Amway, which was determined to have run a pyramid scheme (or a scam) to...

Our conscience must be awakened. We know it's there. Mitch McConnell denies President Obama a hearing for his nomination of a Supreme Court replacement for Judge Antonin Scalia in February 2016, eleven months before the inauguration of a new President. Now he wants to approve someone 6 weeks before the November 2020 election, ignoring his self-righteous rule . Our conscience usually reminds us to...

When those who know/Reject interjection/Justice Violated/Thoughts deceptive. Like Mitch McConnell, trying to pull a fast one. After what he perpetrated in February 2016, preventing President Obama from even getting a hearing for his nomination for a replacement Supreme Justice - February too close to the next election and inauguration of a new President???. But now when Trump is President, he lack...

Trials and Tribulations for the nation. Lawyers, Guns & Money (ty Warren Zevon) to fight the battles in court. Trump usually having about 70 suits going on every year of various sorts. But if he loses the election on Nov 3rd the next cases may be more serious in nature. Individual #1 with Michael Cohen in Stormy Daniels bank fraud / illegal campaign contribution case, and who knows what will b...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is watching . . . another Senate Circus will be brewing as the hypocrites and the sycophants battle it out to replace her, against the precedent set in 2016 rationalizing what they did to President Barack Obama replacing Antonin Scalia who had died in Feb 2016 and Obama nominated Merrick Garland in March and the Republicans racistically prevented Obama's nomination from even be...

Smoke from West Coast wildfires spreads across the country. Remember that orange sky in San Francisco that you saw on TV about a week ago? Or were you taking your morning walk in Oakland at 10 AM that day, and the sky still seemed dark? These wildfires demand a national and perhaps international response. Where is our President when we need him?

The dichotomy. Trump tells 20,000 lies/false claims since he became President in 2017. That's a fact! - - Washington Post tallying

Disgraced former Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scott Pruitt ordered a $65,000 SUV that had a siren installed to get him and his 24/7 security entourage through traffic to vaunt themselves into Le Diplomate, Pruitt's favorite restaurant in Washington D.C. And then there were the two days of partying in Paris en route to Morocco to lobby for Cheniere Energy. A poem to help yo...