Trump’s denial cycle:

• Grossly overestimate your abilities
• Don’t make any work or effort whatsoever to prepare
• Do or say something that makes you look like a complete idiot in front of everyone
• Blame it on someone or something else and/or pretend that it didn’t happen and/or that you were misunderstood and/or you were taken out of context and/or you were joking or being sarcastic because how could you make such a mistake if you are so smart? (you are here)
• pretend that your opponent is the one who did it
• cling onto that delusion and pile on the conspiracy theories
• cycle repeats when he inevitably does something else stupid.