Riley comes off like The Simpsons’ Nelson Muntz sometimes. Always striving to project a badass image, but now and then there’ll be cracks in the façade and he’ll show a hidden talent or sensitivity that nobody suspected. Who knew Riley could feel bad for someone other than himself?
Huey has no way of knowing that one day we’d have a president that routinely does as he does here: presenting assumptions, rumors and innuendo as fact and ignores any and all requests to present anything to back them up. And that he’d likely consider this president to be a bigger fascist than anything he’s ever seen.
Huey imagines Riley reads? Anything?