Now we know for sure why the HOAX surrounds himself with folks who try to keep him calm. HOAX is really another HULK. Remember him?

Get him ANGRY and he grows huge and green and starts destroying everyone and everything.

They HAVE to tell him what he wants to hear and keep him away from what he doesn't want to hear. Everyone around him DOES THAT. Doesn't that comfort to know that truth is so vile to HOAX he has protection from it? Whew!