During his speech, Mr. Trump vowed that he would end "costly, job-killing" regulations in order to bring prices down, though he did not specify which regulations. He promised to address housing costs by opening large tracts of federal land for development, imposing tariffs of up to 20 percent on America's trading partners and expanding signature tax cuts he pushed while in the White House.

He also said that his chief tool to fight rising prices would be boosting oil and gas production, even as the U.S. is currently producing significantly more crude oil today than it did under the Trump administration.

Yet even as Mr. Trump has knocked Ms. Harris for shifting political positions and making promises he says she does not intend to keep, Mr. Trump committed to "slashing energy and electricity prices by half" if elected, then almost immediately backed away from committing to that figure.

"If it doesn't work out, you'll say, Oh well, I voted for him. I still got it down a lot,'" he said.

He accused Democrats of cheating in elections, a claim for which there is no evidence, and criticized them for being a "threat to democracy" when they replaced Mr. Biden as the nominee. He claimed Ms. Harris was "trying to throw him overboard," even though she has remained supportive of the president.

Yes he is. And it may become his ultimate political epitaph and his glidepath into prison for his many crimes.

-----, the soon to be jailbird man?

Or Popeye the Sailor Man without the spinach.