Yep, the most fundamental grift for Trump is converting the credibility of the office of the presidency or the country in general into credibility for his money or power scheme of the moment. That’s what this primetime address was.

In the future, primetime presidential addresses (under Trump but also after) will have less credibility, because that broadcast spent some portion of it.

And if course his goal is to spend all the credibility of the presidency and US on himself before he dies, because that’s just good narcissist math.