In Rasht, Iran, people protest the assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani by the United States in Iraq.(Babak Jeddi / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
I couldn’t abide one simple fact: Obama had bin Laden whacked. So first I took out al-Baghdadi, A really bigger, badder baddie. By making Suleimani dead, In killings I would surge ahead. Obama’s White House stay is done, And I’m the winner, two to one.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”