It's the closest analogy that makes sense at a glance. It's clearly not the mouth, and since we mammals only have one other air vent, that just leaves the nose. However in actuality they have non-breathing scent detectors that are totally separate from three breathing system. It's like if your nose could smell but not be breathed through; instead you breathed in through your mouth and had slits on your throat used to exhale.
I can tell by the syntax that our reality simulation isn't a Bethesda product. Well that and the lack of random at collision doesn't regularly launch things across the sky.
The idea is that Trump's corruption is SO obvious that the GOP is afraid they'll get whipped in the midterms. Trump is certainly attacking the election system hard enough to show he agrees on that part at least, if not the idea of being less greedy.