In the news, February 2017, in GQ and elsewhere, where Trump has been placed into a puppet presidency by Steven Bannon:

“Donald Trump is Signing Executive Orders that He Doesn’t Read or Understand”
by Jack Moore

“Speaking with several White House aides and staffers anonymously, Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman of the Times counted the ways the Trump regime has been a disaster in one of the most damning paragraphs I’ve ever read about a politician:

For the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.”

In the comics, February 1984, in Cerebus (issue 59, pp 14-15), where Cerebus has been placed into a puppet presidency by Adam Weisshaupt (the historical name of the founder of the Illuminati):

“Look… if Cerebus wants to know what he is signing, Cerebus will ask… okay?”

“Much faster this way, don’t you think?”

Yes, sir.