Worst Press Conference?

I should have used a blog that gives you voting buttons - maybe I'll figure out how to do that.

What I really want to know is: which press conferences, or perpetrators of press conferences, did you find the most unbearable over the last few days? There are really three choices, at least if you live in NYC:

POTUS: The reality t.v. star who frequently seems to be living a different reality from the rest of the world. His press conferences often reflect that, in the form of statements that substitute his own self-appraisals for less reliable things like facts and nearly universal scientific opinion.

GONYSS: That is the son of the former Governor of New York State, a.k.a. the Governor Of New York State. He believes that "words matter", and therefore makes sure that when they are used they always depict him as the friend we didn't know we had in Albany.

MONYC: This moniker applies to the Mayor of not two cities, but one, i.e., the one that almost universally finds him unbearable, but is equally incapable of finding someone who is both more bearable and willing to lead this melting (and damn near melted) pot.

I don't want to belabor this, because if you live in the Big Apple, which is now trying to get rid of the Big Worm, you have seen these Mouth Units holding forth in the past few days, and you have formed your opinion. I just want to know, for example:

- Who makes you hit the Pause button the fastest or slowest?
- Who makes you scream "Shut up!" the loudest or softest?
- Who seems to have the most or least inaccurate view of his own failings, as a mostly preventable situation grew day by day into a human disaster?
- Who seems to be the best at finding scapegoats in (a) the other two, (b) the Chinese, (c) the "novelty of the situation" or (d) previous administrations?

For me, it is no shock that my gag reflex is most easily set off by the sight and sound of POTUS, but I am somewhat surprised that I can tolerate at least a few more minutes of GONYSS than I can of MONYC. I mean, there I was not too long ago ready to tell GONYSS to take the state troopers he stationed in NYC and shove them up his royal gonads, to say nothing of another royal fiasco by the name of MTA, whereas suddenly I'm feeling like he at least makes a little more sense than MONYC, who first moans about shutting down the schools and then stands on a table shouting "Shelter in place! Shelter in place!" Words matter, dimwit; actions matter even more. If you were seriously worried that kids would go hungry if they didn't have the god-awful lunches served in public school cafeterias then the thing to do was take the necessary action to keep kids, parents, teachers and staff apart, and then get the food deliveries ramped up as soon as possible, not the other way around as the epidemic spins out of control.

As for POTUS, there he was in one of his typical press-bashings as he referred to NBC 's Peter Alexander as a "terrible reporter", because Alexander had suggested that Americans are "scared". Alexander was right, of course, he just had the wrong object of terror. Most Americans are not exactly "scared" of the virus - a dozen other words make more sense than that. What we are really "scared" of is being in a situation where sensible people are begging Donald Trump to invoke Emergency Powers acts! That is truly one of the scariest things I have ever experienced in my life! And he is refusing - why? Because he doesn't believe in "big government"? Or is he actually hoping this will get so bad that he has "no choice" but to declare martial law, cancel the next election and declare himself President-For-Life? Scary! Just ask the question the right way next time, Peter: "What do you say to Americans who are scared of having an infantile, inexperienced, self-centered, bigoted, failed real estate mogul guide the nation through the worst health crisis in the last 100 years?"

"I say I'm a smart guy and I feel good about untested drugs."

Thank you Mr. President.

So tell me about your favorite news conference moments. Or make your own voting buttons in the Comments section.