 If the president was being portrayed that way, it was by his political enemies on the right who promoted through what the press office termed cheap fakes, a caricature of an adult creature unfit to serve. They would not dignify those people or people doing the bidding of those people with a response. For many inclined to support the president, this was good enough. They did not need to monitor the president's public appearance because under his leadership, the country had returned to the kind of normal state in which members of a first world democratic society had the privilege to forget about the president.