unmoored

since Nixon, presidents have wooed the Press
if not as public servants, then as guys
who have the people's back in this world's mess
and try to not get caught in blatant lies
but Trump believes he's snatched the big brass ring
and gets to dictate what they must report
as though he were their sovereign and king
and they're stenographers who pay him court
for shear invention, Donald takes the cake
ten Orders for each bill the House enacts
no matter all his precedents are fake
inventing worlds of more convenient "facts"
"abyss!" Church warned, "from which there's no return"
but there's scant evidence that voters learn