I have this theory that Trump knew he was supposed to lose in 2016 (why they gave him so much free publicity in order to get him the GOP nomination), and that he was in on it. But when he won because Hillary is so unlikable and the Dems believed their own polls and they had no mail-in-ballots ready to dump at 3am, and he said "fuck it" and became president. That's why the long pause before coming out on stage.

It's like he was a boxer who was supposed to fix a match and his ego couldn't let him take a fall for a loser like Hillary. That he pulled a switch on them is why so many at so high of a level have bent or broken all the normal rules to get him, and they keep getting away with the illegality.

Of course, I have no way to prove any of this. It would explain his idiot behavior on the jab. Then again, it could just be idiot behavior that he can't admit he was wrong.