Deadline Poet / October 17, 2023

Nothing Under the Pillow

Calvin Trillin
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell arrives at a gathering of supporters of former US president Donald Trump. (Octavio Jones / Getty)
The My Pillow guy and election denier confirms
he’s out of money for lawyers defending him in
defamation suits.—News sources

His pillow talk at first seemed what
The MAGA wackos needed, but
By circulating lies by Trump, he
Is finding public life quite lumpy.

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Calvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”

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