"Friends, Russians, Countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Putin, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives on after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
So let it be with Putin. The noble Trump
Hath told you Putin was ambitious;
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Putin answered it.
Here, under the leave of Trump and the rest--
For Trump is an honorable man;
So they are all, all honorable men--
Come I, to speak in Putin's funeral."
Caesar was deified after his death by his nephew Augustus. Augustus also claimed that his family was descended from Aeneas, leader of the Trojan survivors, and therefore had divine blood since Venus was said to be Aeneas' mother.
I come to bury Putin, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives on after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
So let it be with Putin. The noble Trump
Hath told you Putin was ambitious;
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Putin answered it.
Here, under the leave of Trump and the rest--
For Trump is an honorable man;
So they are all, all honorable men--
Come I, to speak in Putin's funeral."