Does he even know how insulting that comment is to all the people working on the beast?
The man didn’t even write his own books.
Almost certainly not. It’s one of the great natural barriers to narsissists achieving lasting power. They don’t understand the demoralizing effect such statements have. And the troops have to believe in the leader to fight well. The IT folks are on their own in swamp code, and they know it. Personnel departures probably working their way through the system as we speak.
“Does he even know how insulting that comment is to all the people working on the beast?”
I was thinking the same thing...