It's pretty obvious
that Trump doesn't like regulations
except when it concerns Google
and its presentation of news about him
in its search results
in which case
he has tweeted rather ominously
that the "Fake New Media"
"will be addressed"
presumably to make them show him
as the figure his followers see:
a man who is very rich
and must be very smart and good
because only the bad people hate him.
Perhaps this is a diplomatic gesture
meant to align the values of our country
with another one
one in which
there is no Internet
and in which the news media
presents its hipster-haircut
baby-faced killer leader
in only the most flattering light
(or else):
North Korea.
This poem © 2018 Emily Cooper.
