"When I imagine his brain, I imagine a bug zapper in a drizzle. Bzzzzzzzzzzt. Fzzzz. Bzzz fzzz bzzzzzzzzzzt."
— Senior, Jennifer
Author
Date
February 9, 2019
Metaphor
"When I imagine his brain, I imagine a bug zapper in a drizzle. Bzzzzzzzzzzt. Fzzzz. Bzzz fzzz bzzzzzzzzzzt."
Metaphor in Context
I'm not convinced, as some people are, that the Twitter fusillades from the White House are part of a larger strategy of distraction, specifically intended to divert us from this particular administration's malfeasance and failures. I think our president's attention span is genuinely scattershot. ("Post-literate," Michael Wolff called him in "Fire and Fury." Seems about right.) When I imagine his brain, I imagine a bug zapper in a drizzle. Bzzzzzzzzzzt. Fzzzz. Bzzz fzzz bzzzzzzzzzzt.
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Jennifer Senior, "Our Brains Aren't Designed to Handle the Trump Era," The New York Times (February 9, 2019). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
02/13/2019
