I was trapped in the car

"This is not a news conference, it's not a speech. It's not anything."

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) February 6, 2020

No, not that way.  I was on the way home, listening to NPR (as is my wont) and they pre-empted programming to broadcast the President's....whatever it was.  Fortunately I got home and out of the car (safe!) before he came on.  Doesn't sound like I missed anything.

Words used by Trump in victory celebration (4 minutes in):
evil
corrupt
witch hunt
leakers
liars
disgrace
disaster
dirty cops
bad people

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) February 6, 2020

In which, of course, Trump says more than he means to:

“Had I not fired James Comey, who was a disaster by the way, it’s possible I wouldn’t even be standing here right now,” Trump says.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 6, 2020

And bares his anxieties to the world:

"It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars," Trump says, describing the last three years. "I don't know if other presidents would have been able to take it."

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 6, 2020

The question is, how many Senators would give a President whatever he wanted?

Pretty sure Trump just admitted to the very impeachable offense of which he was acquitted:

- He said he insisted on Ukraine focusing on the Bidens.

- & he said he felt Ukraine was getting US support w/o delivering value.

Isn't that basically the quid pro quo he was accused of?

— Joshua A. Geltzer (@jgeltzer) February 6, 2020

It's all right, the Senate gave him a pass on that.

"I saw the whole thing and it was terrible," Trump says, reliving Scalise being hit by a gunman's bullet during the congressional ballgame practice.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 6, 2020

Now I'm remembering Reagan describing the Navy cook who manned a gun on a ship under fire in Pearl Harbor.  He made it sound like he was there.  He was remembering a scene from a movie.

I had to get back in the car, with only the radio for distraction, and Lord help us, he was still going on, and the audience was applauding.  Audience, you say?  Oh, yeah:

Trump's impeachment defense team gets a standing ovation pic.twitter.com/ga4Ogs3Uqn

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 6, 2020

It's like a Trump rally, but without the screaming yahoos:

"Lisa and Peter, the lovers, the FBI lovers," Trump says. Now mentioning McCabe. Peter "is probably trying to impress her, for obvious reasons," Trump says. One or two people laugh, but mostly silence.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 6, 2020

And yes, he's been yammering for over an hour.

"I'm sure I didn't mention a few," Trump says of names he owes thanks to. Hard to believe, over an hour in, but could be.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 6, 2020

Remember real Presidents who made brief remarks in the middle of the day, because they had work to do?

And since today's events are all just one long rolling revue where only the venue changes, not the show, this is some of what Trump said at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning:

I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you,' when they know that's not so. So many people have been hurt and we can't let that go on. We have allies, we have enemies, sometimes the allies are enemies but we just don't know it. But we're changing all that.

Yeah, I don't know what he means, either.

And it's over. That has to be the most bonkers speech ever delivered at the White House.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 6, 2020