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"Nero fiddled while Rome burned"
We use this phrase because the self-aggrandizement of a Roman Emperor (who may have started the fire himself as part of an underhanded real estate grab) was so infamous it's still noteworthy 2000 years later.
2000 years from now: "Trump tweeted while the pandemic raged"
There's a Trump tweet (or RT) for everything.
Here, he demonstrates neither he nor his social media director have the faintest clue who Nero even was.
@netspionage @Stonekettle OMFG....aggghhhhhhhh
@Stonekettle evergreen tweet
@Stonekettle
I was thinking the same thing as I did this