Sir, Category 5, sir
Trump goes to FEMA for a briefing on the hurricane that is now hammering the Bahamas, and at that briefing he marvels at the idea of a Category 5 hurricane, says he’s never heard of a Cat 5, says he has heard of a Cat 5 but only as a concept, not as an event.
None of that is accurate. None of it. It’s the babbling of someone whose brain is emptying out at an accelerating rate.
Daniel Dale provides the citations:
President Donald Trump on the existence of Category 5 hurricanes, 2017-2019.
Fall of 2017, Category 5 a new thing on earth. This past May, Category 5 whaaaaaat who ever heard of that, big stuff. Today Category 5 whaaaaaat I knew it existed but I never knew it existed other than I knew it existed.
Well never mind, he can remember exactly how he felt when a tv star called him “Sir” this one time.
The scary thing is, this reminds me of my students, who will not have heard of a concept 13 seconds after we discussed it in detail in class. I don’t think it’s the Donald, I think we are entering a period where no one remembers anything they learn for more than 4 seconds, except a handful of weird old people who lived once upon a time in a world where people actually read books.
He is a Category 5 president.
Category 1 is for great presidents, 2 for good, 3 for fair, 4 for poor, and 5 for “should never have been allowed near the office, and should be headed straight to prison.”
Congrats, Mr. President — nobody’s ever been a Category 5 president before! You’re the first!
You may be onto something, but I need some clarification. Would this be like the Richter scale, in which going up one number represents a tenfold increase in awfulness? Is it the measure of a single, global property, or a sum total of dreadfulness quotients in discreet departments (e.g. stupidity, lawlessness, boorishness, misogyny, ignorance, orangeness, etc.)? Is it a limited scale, or is it bottomless? I could see Trump’s number getting higher as he reaches depths unplumbed of ghastliness.
Trump is the greatest, everything to do with him is the greatest, so of course he is going to pretend that a storm that threatened to flatten his precious Mar-a-lago is the Biggest Storm Ever. Bigger even than the one from the Old Testament, people have been saying. And because he has the mind of a toddler, he doesn’t understand that people know things he doesn’t know, so he just goes ahead and tells the world that a category 5 is unheard of. Then to finish off, because he knows he is lying and he always blurts out everything that is in his tiny mind, he tells us he has heard of it. I suspect there is an element of bragging to the last bit, too – having just told everyone else that they didn’t know of category 5s, he can’t help showing off his superior knowledge.
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