Snowflakes falling on Ivory Tower Privileged pressure exerting power Primed for insult and outrage too Detecting heretics from any clue Exorcise those now deemed incorrect Such bygone stars deserve no respect So only safe ideas can they exchange All falling within the comfort range Learning only where none feels hurt With no requirement to explore the dirt In building silos of righteous thought Militant intolerance has been wrought Divergent opinions now shut down For new Puritans to claim the crown Proclaiming safe speech they defend But thought-crime is the actual trend New Hate Weeks they now opine Defining those that crossed the line No platforms; don’t hear them speak Drowning message with shout and shriek And what Trojan is this free speech zone? This meme nursery, where weeds are sown Establish new orthodoxy; apply the codes Whims and affectations travel scholar’s roads.
Riding abreast dialogue flowed As they joined the busy road Single up! Came leader’s behest They ignored; they knew best Important to assert two-up mode They all know the Highway Code Behind; impatient engines gunned But closed ears this cue shunned Single up! Came leader’s shout Again failed to insert some doubt Single up! Came leader’s scream Words still flowing like a stream Riding abreast dialogue flowed Until silenced; as heads hit road.
Fake News comes the Trumpet call The faithful hear, they are in thrall Wield Fake News to smite them down For He now wears the media crown Apprentice star emits searing light Troublesome truths now burning bright Only He could fix all that was wrong For His people need a leader strong So Russian Bear now declared no thug Ursine brothers now embrace and hug.
And it’s Id and Ego who must be hired While the unbelievers must be fired Let ‘Art of the Deal’ the people inspire By spectral author not the artful liar Fake News press ‘enemy number one’ For they frustrate what must be done Fake News is what His people hears So filter messages and close their ears No briefings here for the media club He will forge his own fortress hub.
Like like some dark lord in his Tower From stormy skies He builds his power Summons lightning bolts to make a hit On all those ‘others’ who just don’t fit But yet it was He that took the prize As mainstream media cast their eyes On the actors playing by older rules Rejecting He from different schools And so Fake News plays useful part A fearsome weapon for spinner’s art.
So ‘wrong’ truths to false become recast Impervious armour against enemy blast For He knows how to ‘drain the swamp’ Assault their truths, proclaim His pomp Globalisation’s losers new Lords seek For the ‘deplorables’ see a future bleak And an ‘elite’ class sneering in contempt Until ‘deplorables’ let their anger vent Only their Apprentice star felt their pain From declining futures of excluded gain.
So new narratives found receptive ears Post-truth prescriptions to allay all fears The Fox now shaping the Trumpet notes Sound Spicy tweets to reach His votes By claiming conspiracies by the score That need rooting out from the core Defining new enemies of the State Let Him remake the country great Fake News comes the Trumpet call The faithful heard, He has the ball.