{UAH} Why does President Trump look and act like he’s trying to deliver a stand-up humor routine at his rallies instead of any sort of coherent speech?

The chief contributor to this issue is confusion. In his speeches, trump appears and even sounds like he's contracted "Borscht Belt comic" disease: the venomous taunts, the trickling mockery, the exaggerated articulations, the never-ending hyperbole. Yet, when trump attempts an actual joke, he's doomed to failure.

Throughout his miserable presidency, he managed one great joke. Delivered at the Gridiron Club dinner in March 2018, he said he would be available for a one-on-one gathering with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "As for the risk of dealing with a madman is concerned," trump said, "that's his problem, not mine."

Conversely, trump is spearheading some sort of presidential humour; one so innovative and unobtrusive that numerous supporters are only just beginning to grasp it.

His chief quips are not inspired by former presidents. No, trump's central model, it appears is the poker-faced presentation of craftsmanship satire of individuals like Andy Kaufman and Kaufman's detestable lounge-lizard Tony Clifton.

trump, the Tony Clifton of presidents, has demonstrated he is similarly capable of maintaining the mirage. He never laughs at his own jokes or anybody else's for that matter. In fact, he rarely laughs period.

And on those occasions when he feels he needs to backtrack from a particularly absurd remark, he does so with a scripted monotone saturated with hypocrisy.

That might be the magic formula one needs to grasp the meaning of some of the most head-snapping moments of trump's administration; from his arm-twisting insistence that his Inauguration Day crowd was greater than Barack Obama's swarm eight years earlier, to his meandering clarification for that temperamental ramp stroll at West Point.

These performances are so bizarre, so messed up, so audaciously at odds with actual in-your-face evidence (he ran the last 10 feet!) that they bode well only as on stage craftsmanship.

trump is truly excellent in that regard.

Indeed, even Tony Clifton and Sacha Baron Cohen couldn't keep their acts running for four interminable years.

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