Mmmm... I don’t think so. If they ARE trying to be cute by increasing the devastation they may be too cute by half. It was one thing to take over the car companies. Allowing an ocean and the southern coast to be devastated because of federal fecklessness (and everybody knows it) is not. At best he’s like the sorcerers apprentice - he’s started something he doesn’t know how to stop.
Well you’re surely right about him being like the sorcerer’s apprentice! He thought he was so smart until he couldn’t stop the brooms. Then he really started to panic!