Certainly Joe's schtick ... Same for the Liberal Media
It is debatable who actually said this—but it tells you the way the elites think:
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”