For me the first jaw-dropper of that press conference was when he said (paraphrase)”People mistook our spending more as if it were a policy decision and not just a temporary measure.” Oh, how stupid of us, to think spending nearly a trillion dollars was SPENDING!
He truly does think we’re morons, and if he just rephrases things and uses the Jedi mind trick, we’ll just believe anything he says.
There is something relly, really wrong with a person who doesn’t think that the idea of a trillion bucks doesn’t carry huge shock value.