"Trump's like a high school student doing a book report who not only didn't read the book, but even if he did you know it would go way over his head anyway," said Late Night host Seth Meyers on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump is continuing to cop criticism for ignoring warnings about the coronavirus for months. Reports state Trump routinely neglects to read his daily intelligence briefings, and sometimes even shows disinterest in the oral summaries provided a few times per week.
"What do they have to do to keep this guy's attention? Have his daily briefings delivered by pageant contestants?" said Meyers. "'My name is Brianna, I'm from Battle Creek, Michigan, and a new virus spreading across the globe has a 3.4 percent mortality rate!'"
Predictably, Trump's retinue has also been stumbling through its pandemic response like herd of heavily intoxicated bulls. On Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence attempted to justify his decision not to wear a face mask at the Mayo Clinic by saying he wanted to "look [healthcare workers] in the eye and say thank you." Never mind that these workers he's supposedly so grateful for specifically told him to wear a mask.
"You can still see people's eyes with a mask on," Meyers pointed out. "How do you think you're supposed to wear a mask? Because it's never supposed to cover your eyes unless you're thinking about 50 Shades of Grey."
