“If it’s true then Trump’s poetry was misogyny, race hatred, xenophobia, petty vengefulness and reckless ignorance. On the stump there was hardly a dark human impulse that he failed to display or exploit. And if that was the poetry, what hope from the lesser form, the prose? If, by chance, Trump meant what he said … More Share: “Ian McEwan: Trump’s poetry was hatred. What about the prose?”