Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair
Where I sit.
There isn't any
Other stair
Quite like
It.
I'm not at the bottom,
I'm not at the top;
So this is the stair
Where
I always
Stop.

Halfway up the stairs
Isn't up
And isn't down.
It isn't in the nursery,
It isn't in the town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head:
"It isn't really
Anywhere!
It's somewhere else
Instead!"

*A.A. Milne, "Halfway Down"

The audience "went absolutely crazy." Yeah, must be "the audience." If they had been there. Which they weren't. Other than in the mind of a tired, old, hopelessly delusionary flimflam man.

Many of us have seen this sort of behavior - perhaps not quite to this degree - in people we've known, perhaps loved ones. For them and Trump the mental trajectory ks well established and solidly downwards. There will be no improvement, no "getting better." Trump is at the top of his form now. Think about that.