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White House responds to Joan Baez’s poem about a ‘little green worm’ eating Trump’s brain

Joan Baez reads her new poem titled "Falling Rocks"
  • Singer-songwriter Joan Baez has released a new poem, Little Green Worm: A Note to the President speculating about a worm eating parts of President Donald Trump's brain.
  • The poem references Robert F Kennedy Jr., who stated last year that a worm had eaten part of his brain.
  • Baez suggests the “little green worm” may have consumed parts of Trump's brain responsible for empathy, impulse control and regulating social behavior.
  • The poem concludes by implying the worm would find “nothing there” in the part of Trump's brain responsible for basic intelligence.
  • The White House Communications Director, Steven Cheung, responded to the poem by asking, “Who is Joan Baez?'”
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