Lie of omission, transcription of the relevant part of the video for anyone who doesn't click, Jen Psaki said: "I'm also happy to repeat that we have the first female treasury secretary and a team that's surrounding her, and often questions about market we'll send to them, but our team is of course - our economic team including Secretary Yellen and others - are monitoring uh the situation. It's a good reminder though that the stock market isn't the only measure of the health of our economy" [etc].

The response should have been "What situation? And why you expect the government to handle it - can't you wipe your own bottom without the government help?" But of course these times have passed - now the federal government should be everybody's nanny and hall monitor.

I for one don't want the administration to have an "official response" to this, so a non-sequitur is positively delightful.

I would tend to agree if the non-sequitur hadn't involved "genitalia", as many commentators have put it.

Does the President owe us a response? Way way bigger fish to fry right now than GameStonks.