Never blink.

The *resident likes a catch-phrase from his bone-spur days:

The world is watching.

He, however, is always directing the world to watch what he says. It's always an enemy, or overseas: the Obamacare rollout in 2013; the Scottish independence referendum, 2014; Baltimore's racial conflicts, 2015; America's racial conflicts, 2016; repeal-and-replace, 2017; FEMA helping aid for US territory with electoral votes, 2017, and now, Iran's protests against its government.

As Zach Goldhammer wrote in a 2014 Atlantic article, the phrase has a pedigree:

Knowingly or not, Nixon was echoing words used for the past six decades to protest police brutality and government neglect in the United States. The phrase “the whole world is watching”—a pithy warning that an incident was testing America's commitment to its values, before an international audience that would hold it accountable—was first used as part of the civil-rights movement in the 1950s, particularly during the fight to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. But the slogan's most iconic moment came in August 1968, when it was chanted by demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago who were protesting the Vietnam War, among other grievances. Don Rose, then the press secretary for the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (also known as the Mobe), suggested that Students for a Democratic Society leader Rennie Davis inform the press about the victims of police beatings in Lincoln Park. 

"Tell them the whole world is watching," Rose said, "and they’ll never get away with it again.”