It’s tough to be the president: You have to rank your distractions by which one to ignore first! When all instruments of governance must be focused on something the electorate never asked for, you can’t afford to let your divine trajectory to be altered by some tyranny or other superficial irritant.

This means that when things heat up, the health-provider-in-chief will have to react to some unexpected glitch in the harmony of the universe. The press secretary will then explain “We should have put more emphasis on explaining the urgency of the peace process”.