Can he even SPELL irony?

Heh. He certainly doesn't recognize it when it shows up on a Teleprompter, or he'd have choked on the words.

When the cynics warned that Medicare would lead to a government takeover of our entire health care system, and it didn’t have much support in the polls, Democrats and Republicans refused to back down, and made sure that all of us could enter our golden years with some basic peace of mind.