The Current Occupant is the front man, the face of the malicious determined crew that is working all the demolition machinery from behind the scenes. As a practiced and knowledgeable participant in this charade, the Current Occupant’s duties consist largely of signing pieces of paper where directed, and reading off a speech from the TelePrompTer that had been written by a committee that had tested all the phrases with a focus group first. He does not put much personal effort or thought into what it is he either says or signs off on.
But there is a “brain trust” behind him, propping up every single word he says, even the “gaffes”, which are sometimes not a gaffe at all, but a momentary swerve into the reality and the truth of the matter.
Left to his own devices, as when ambushed with a particularly thorny question for which he had not been prepared with a scripted answer, he comes off as one who thinks very poorly on his feet, so to speak, and in the blaze of the moment, we see the real face of this imposter - a stumblebum and a tongue-tied babbler.
Joe Biden seems almost benign in comparison. But Biden is no prize either.
“even the “gaffes”, which are sometimes not a gaffe at all, but a momentary swerve into the reality and the truth of the matter.”
“e.g., the “corpsemen”.