The answer to all of this is right in Clandestine’s post and everyone is missing it (including him). This is the weakest Trump has ever looked and he portrayed himself that way during the speech. He was somber, low energy, defeatist. Sun Tzu says- appear weak when you are strong. This speech is plausible deniability for the shit that is about to go down. It keeps him out of it. In this speech, he is giving up- so people can’t say he is behind a coup or a dictator or whatever. We are extremely close to shit hitting the fan. And he may have been right that it won’t be totally fixed until 2024. But that line was like a gut punch and he knows it. He’s not dumb, he is never low energy and he would only leave us hanging like this for a short amount of time in my opinion.