You know, I'm feeling good

[Deminpenn]

43. Trump is a showman as much as anything

In that respect, he's similar to Reagan. His followers come for the show. They didn't show up as much recently because his act got stale. I do have say the joke about the last mic he tried to kill was Pence was pretty funny and a clever pun on the pronunciation of word "mic". I read in a recent article that his fans don't believe most of what he says. Trump has a knack for reading a room, too. An amateur psychologist might say this was how he survived a domineering father.

I'd bet that if Biden had offered him a full pardon for crimes past, present and future plus his own new TV show in return for dropping out and never running for elected office again, Trump would've jumped on it.