The only tiny ray of hope I have in all of this is that Trump surely would not nuke his own base's morale the way he just did unless he was wrapping up. He's made no missteps for years and it would be weird to, seemingly intentionally, trip up this hard for no fucking reason. I'm still fucking pissed at the hype for that speech though.

There has to be more to it because, at face value, it was fucking pathetic and there's no way he thought that would be anything but a giant middle finger to his base at large and especially those who follow along background stuff.