Friday, March 27, 2020

Feelings and beliefs

“I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be. I don’t believe you need thirty thousand or forty thousand ventilators. You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes, they’ll have two ventilators”: Donald Trump* speaking to state TV last night. The Delphic orifice can never be wrong.

[I’m not the first person to think up the phrase “Delphic orifice” (Google shows six results), but this post appears to be the first instance of the phrase being applied to Donald Trump*.]

comments: 2

The Crow said...

Doesn't that number reflect the national shortage and current need?

I've long suspected Trump hears only about half of what he is told by his advisors, understands maybe a tenth of that and but not well enough to speak intelligently on any given subject. Mr. Bluster Fluster should not speak at all...unless it is to say he has resigned from office.

How unfortunate for the rest of America that he has unlimited access to the best medical care we have to offer simply because of the office he holds. Another reeason to impeach, impeach, impeach!

Chris said...

The man's ego is so inflated (and his intelligence so limited) that he thinks that whatever random neuron fires in his befuddled brain must bear greater wisdom than all of medical science put together. And people still fawn over this man.