At least Nero knew how to play a musical instrument. The culturally illiterate, functionally brain-dead Donald Trump does not play any musical
The metaphor is otherwise appropriate — Trump dithering, dallying, delaying, deferring, distracting, denying and DOING NOTHING as the country figuratively burns — except that Nero did play an instrument and Trump, again the cultural ignorati, is way out of his league.
But did Nero play the FIDDLE while Rome burned in 64 AD?
The fiddle — the violin — was not invented until the 16th century.
The instrument Nero played was the LYRE — pronounced like LIAR — and THAT is an instrument on which Trump is a virtuoso.
At least Nero knew how to play a musical instrument. The culturally illiterate, functionally brain-dead Donald Trump does not play any musical
The metaphor is otherwise appropriate — Trump dithering, dallying, delaying, deferring, distracting, denying and DOING NOTHING as the country figuratively burns — except that Nero did play an instrument and Trump, again the cultural ignorati, is way out of his league.
But did Nero play the FIDDLE while Rome burned in 64 AD?
The fiddle — the violin — was not invented until the 16th century.
The instrument Nero played was the LYRE — pronounced like LIAR — and THAT is an instrument on which Trump is a virtuoso.