Did Nero really fiddle while Rome burned? No, because the violin was not invented until the Middle Ages, but somehow the image took root centuries after Rome burned.
In any case, Nero’s feckless response to the tragedy is now being compared to Trump’s Twitter behavior amid the growing crises of the coronavirus outbreak and its economic fallout. Monday morning, as Americans nervously awaited the opening bell on Wall Street, Trump tweeted his usual complaints about Democrats, the “Deep State” and the “Fake News Media.”
Soon after Trump retweeted the fiddling meme, CNN legal analyst Renato Mariotti had this warning, “You might want to look up what happened to Nero.”
It wasn’t good.
-Gillian Brockell from the Wa Post
Soon after Trump retweeted the fiddling meme, CNN legal analyst Renato Mariotti had this warning, “You might want to look up what happened to Nero.”
It wasn’t good.
-Gillian Brockell from the Wa Post
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