(Erasure from first Trump press conference on January 11, 2017)
Nonsense was released today,
it should have never been written,
fake news.
I’m not allowed to talk about it.
It’s phony stuff.
They put that crap together.
I think it’s a disgrace. I think it’s an absolute disgrace.
Fake news was indeed fake news.
Look what Nazi Germany did.
I think it’s false and fake.
Never happened. A failing pile of garbage.
It’s terrible, fake news.
It’s just something we’re going to have to live with.
People were absolutely destroyed, but I didn’t do that.
I will tell you, that this should never, ever have happened,
maybe it didn’t happen, it’s possible.
No matter where you go today
there will be cameras in the strangest places.
Cameras that are so small with modern technology,
you can’t see them and you won’t know about it.
You better be careful. Cameras are all over the place.
The American people are concerned about it.
But, I don’t think they care at all if it happens.
Because no matter where you go, it will happen,
almost simultaneously, shortly thereafter.
It will be essentially, simultaneously,
probably, the same day, could be the same hour.
Very complicated stuff.
I don’t feel like waiting a year or a year-and-a-half.
People will go crazy.
It will happen.
People will all scream out;
and they will scream out --
I don’t want to wait a year-and-a-half.
It will happen.
I think what we’ll do is we’ll wait until Monday,
and then also next week.
Nonsense was released today,
it should have never been written,
fake news.
I’m not allowed to talk about it.
It’s phony stuff.
They put that crap together.
I think it’s a disgrace. I think it’s an absolute disgrace.
Fake news was indeed fake news.
Look what Nazi Germany did.
I think it’s false and fake.
Never happened. A failing pile of garbage.
It’s terrible, fake news.
It’s just something we’re going to have to live with.
People were absolutely destroyed, but I didn’t do that.
I will tell you, that this should never, ever have happened,
maybe it didn’t happen, it’s possible.
No matter where you go today
there will be cameras in the strangest places.
Cameras that are so small with modern technology,
you can’t see them and you won’t know about it.
You better be careful. Cameras are all over the place.
The American people are concerned about it.
But, I don’t think they care at all if it happens.
Because no matter where you go, it will happen,
almost simultaneously, shortly thereafter.
It will be essentially, simultaneously,
probably, the same day, could be the same hour.
Very complicated stuff.
I don’t feel like waiting a year or a year-and-a-half.
People will go crazy.
It will happen.
People will all scream out;
and they will scream out --
I don’t want to wait a year-and-a-half.
It will happen.
I think what we’ll do is we’ll wait until Monday,
and then also next week.
Denise Sedman’s short stories, poetry and provocative essays have appeared in local and national publications. Abandon Automobile, published in 2001 by Wayne State University Press, includes her signature poem “Untitled” about how words saved her life. The same poem inspired a creative installation by architecture students who gave the words back to the city of Detroit. This project appeared in University of Detroit Mercy’s 2003 [sic] v.10. Her poems are included in the Coffeehouse Poetry Anthology, 1996, published by Bottom Dog Press, and in several past and the current issue of Wayne State University’s Wayne Literary Review. She is a regular on the poetry scene since the 1990s and has been a featured reader many times.