Irish poet's chilling 'curse' on Donald Trump after Bishops pleads for LGBT 'mercy'

A reknowned Laois poet has placed an eloquent and chilling "curse" on the newly reelected President of America Donald Trump.

Pat Boran from Portlaoise, award winning poet and RTÉ presenter, made his passionate comment on his Facebook page.

He shared a photograph of President Trump meeting US Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde after she pleaded with the president for mercy for others.

"This is an impressive woman. Seizing her opportunity, and putting herself in the line of fire, to ask for mercy for others. Trump’s description of her as ‘nasty’ is a word he appears to reserve for women he’s afraid of, women whose independence of thought or action have hurt him.

"Afterwards he spits on social media, lies in bed, full as a stuffed boar, staring at the ceiling, at the gaudy gold chandelier, a bubble of air moving through his gut, his teeth clenched, his heart racing, sweat on his brow, everything and nothing in his grasp, and this nasty nasty woman… The nights are long, little Donnie, though you swat and bully and gurn your way through the days. The nights are long, and the nights will be your undoing."

After one supporter praised his "vivid curse", Pat Boran agreed it could be time to bring back curses.

"It could be that the time has come for dusting off the curses, of which the Irish canon is replete with impressive examples (let's get our mining helmets on, sisters and brothers)".

He spoke to the Leinster Express / Laois Live further.

Bishop Budde had preached to the President, Vice president JD Vance and others from the pulpit at an interfaith ceremony they attended, urging him to have mercy on immigrants and on the LGBT community. 

"In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in democratic, republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives."

She also highlighted the menial jobs that asylum seekers work at in the states. 

"They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.

"I ask you to have mercy, Mr President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. And that you help those who are fleeing war and persecution in their own lands, to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land."

Pat Boran praised her brave stance.

"The bishop made a valuable and necessary connection too in her sermon. Where Kamala Harris identified, on many occasions, the distinct groups in American society who were being threatened and discriminated against by Trump’s reductionist politics (wealth and power over influence and leadership) Bishop Budde recognised all these groups — the LGBTQ+ community or communities, immigrants, the low-paid, etc — as fundamentally one, what the Bible quaintly used to call ‘the meek’.

"But it may not be that without courage and bravery the meek will inherit the earth, only what’s left of it after the gluttons of venture capitalism have sucked it dry. There is no church worth its name that does not speak out for those in danger, that does not recognise its most basic role to intercede for mercy, to side with the endangered and oppressed," the Laois poet said.