How Dare He?

There I was, sitting on the couch with an apple and 14 Jelly Bellys waiting for the Survivor theme song to start at 7 sharp.
Then I see the Residential Seal.
Survivor was pre-empted for an hour by a special (?) speech by the Resident.
The Chez Zipdrive switchboard lit up, people calling from all over the USA to get my reaction to the delay. My friends are evil.
I listened to the speech and the Q and A afterwards.
Here's some new things I learned from the emergency speech: