when in the world’s leading democracy a new president starts his office with
making life more expensive for average home owners signing orders threatening the health of millions restricting the publications of researchers denying global warming encouraging coal and oil companies forbidding federal employees to talk to the media going on fantasy trips about “alternative facts" to justify his ridiculous lies blaming the media when asking questions and checking facts barring leading media companies from press conferences waffling about his Russian connections refusing to release his tax returns ordering to build walls to keep out all those aliens, like the old Chinese did, to little avail issuing poorly formulated presidential orders causing confusion and harm and even deaths banning even green card holders from entering the country filling his cabinet with all the alligators from the swamps he promised to clean during his campaign people who know how to avoid paying taxes and beating the system but have no clue how to govern now that they ARE the system and think they can run the USA with its 350 million citizens as Trump&Cronies;, USA, Inc., like their private family businesses, for profit courting kings and monarchs & wannabe sultans in the near east 'democratic dictators' in the far southeast and wannabe czars in russia but hesitating to confirm ties to old allies in Europe, NATO, and the Far East suggesting that having undeclared secret meetings is quite OK with his campaign team members his son and son-in-law
[ctd. fron line 2...] it is high time to seriously ask what concept if any of democracy he has in mind
In view of ongoing developments, this poem is a work in progress and will be updated whenever significant "presidential orders" or some such become public.