It would be a cruel prank. Trump could have/would have just told us we lost this battle. Either we WON or his ego couldn’t handle that admission. Either “nothing can stop what is coming” or somehow “it got stopped”.

It is possible that literally everyone around him was DS including family members. It’s possible he was chosen to lead the revolution so they could contain it. He might not know this, or found out too late. He could have been set-up and handled. He could be sitting around right now, just like us, wondering when things are going to happen.